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the newspaper. The Miner has been a great paper for years. Now that Michelle is a vested owner, it’s only going to get better.”

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Northwest Asian Weekly can still thrive on the web, which she hopes to update with new stories on a daily basis, but the decision to close the Seattle Chinese Post wasn’t easy, she said, mentioning older immigrants who rely on the paper to learn about local, national and international news. She phoned some of them personally to let them know.

“They’ve been reading this newspaper for so long” and either can’t read English news or aren’t comfortable reading online, said Harry Chan, owner of Seattle’s historic Tai Tung restaurant, who prefers print himself.

By the end of a call with one longtime reader, Linda Tsang, Ng was in tears.

“I was just so shocked,” Tsang said later. “It’s like I’m losing a friend.”