SMALL OHIO DAILY BUYS SMALLER OHIO DAILY.(Newspapers)(Brief
Article)
The owner of Ohio's Bryan Times said last week that it had
reached a definitive agreement with the family that owns the Northwest
Signal of Napoleon, Ohio, to purchase the paper.
Neither Bryan . . .
JRN IS TENDERED 20 MILLION SHARES.(Brief Article)
As the last part of its initial public offering, Journal
Communications Inc. last week said that it had purchased more than 20
million shares of its B-1 common stock, the stock held by employees . . .
SEATTLE TIMES PUTS FIVE ACRES ON BLOCK.
Frank Blethen, publisher of the Seattle Times and head of the
Seattle Times Co., cited two reasons last week that his company is
seeking to sell five acres of downtown land adjacent to the . . .
VIRGINIA PAPER STARTS NEW PRESS.
Following a two-year process in which a press building was
constructed right in the middle of downtown Roanoke, Va., the first
copy of the Roanoke Times rolled off of a new printing press . . .
eREDEYE' GETS BLACK EYE.(newspaper)
The Chicago Tribune's much-vaunted youth-oriented newspaper,
the "RedEye" edition, is apparently selling fewer than 9000
copies a day -- or less than 20 percent of the copies printed -- the
paper . . .
AND YOU THOUGHT THE REVENUE NUMBERS WERE BAD Analysis of
circulation and reader data says interest is down.
New York notwithstanding, figures released last week show that both
newspaper circulation -- the audited number of copies sold -- and
readership -- consumers who were surveyed -- are down.
. . .
PERSONS.(official appointments)
Newspaper Network news: At the Newspaper National Network L.P. of
New York City, Mary Ellen Holden has been named senior vice president
of marketing; most recently she was a consultant with the . . .
JOURNAL REGISTER EXECS REDEEM OPTIONS.(Brief Article)
Stock options that were given to two of the top executives at
Journal Register Co. when the company went public in 1997 are finally
being redeemed, according to filings with the Securities and . . .
GANNETT CLIPS COUPONS, BUYS CLIPPER.(Brief Article)
One of the country's largest direct-mail advertising magazine
companies, which mails to more than 100 million households annually,
was acquired last week by Gannett Co. Inc., the nation's . . .
SEATTLE TIMES' APPEAL ON FAST TRACK.(Brief Article)
Last week a state court commissioner accepted the Seattle Times
Co.'s argument to hasten a hearing of its appeal of a crucial
ruling in its attempt to rid itself of its partner, The Hearst Corp.
. . .
PAPER MAKERS ABITIBI, BOWATER SEE LOSSES.
The two leading suppliers of newsprint in North America reported
last week that their most recent quarter brought only losses.
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. of Montreal, and Bowater Inc. . . .
NEW EDITIONS FOCUS ON UNDERSERVED.
A spate of new daily paper editions or announcements thereof
rumbled through the newspaper industry last week, all attempting to
reach readers who aren't being served by the regular paper.
In . . .
ADS COME IN 'STARTS AND STOPS' IN Q3; RESULTS UNEVEN
JRN, LEE, PTZ, WPO all report mixed revenues, earnings.
Mary Junck, chairman and chief executive of newspaper publisher Lee
Enterprises Inc. probably said it best. "The long-awaited ad
recovery continues to move in starts and stops," she opined. . . .
PERSONS.(appointments)
Executive suite: At The McClatchy Co. of Sacramento, Heather
Fagundes has been named vice president of human resources; previously
she had been director of human resources and is an 11-year . . .
LORD BLACK TAKES THE FIFTH.(legal investigation)
In the ongoing saga of Lord Conrad Black, Hollinger International
Inc. of New York City (the business that puts out the Chicago
Sun-Times, the London Telegram and the Jerusalem Post) and . . .
BRIGHT SPOTS IN NOVEMBER REVENUE.
It was fascinating to see where newspaper ad revenue was popping up
in November: last week we saw good things in Sacramento and this week
we see good things in Richmond, Va., and St. Paul, Minn. By . . .
TRADE GROUP, COMPANIES SAY ECONOMY IS A GO Newspaper association
predicts 4.1% ad spending growth.
Optimism is the byword at the Newspaper Association of America
these days: its chief analyst says that the good news for 2004 is that
"both the economy and the advertising marketplace now have . . .
PERSONS.
Boards: At Journal Communications Inc. of Milwaukee, Don Davis Jr.
has been named a member of the board of directors. Davis is the
chairman and chief executive of Rockwell Automations Inc. of . . .
TAB SIZE GAINS PAPER READERS.(Brief Article)
By offering readers a choice in the size of their newspaper, The
Independent of London last week said that it had picked up a more than
two-percent gain in circulation, to 240,326, between May and . . .
SCRIPPS STARTS LATINO JOURNALISM PROGRAM.
Denver's Rocky Mountain News will serve as the headquarters
for the Scripps Academy for Hispanic Journalists, The E.W. Scripps Co.
and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists announced . . .
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