PERSONS.
Publishers: At Texas' Greenville Herald-Banner, Bill Morgan
has been named publisher; most recently he was publisher of the Athens
Daily Review, also in Texas. In his 20-year-plus newspaper . . .
BRIEFS.
* Dow family continues control: The family that controls the voting
shares of Dow Jones & Co. won shareholder approval on Wednesday for
a bylaws change that will allow members to sell some of . . .
BLACK'S EMPIRE CONTINUES TO CRUMBLE.(Lord Conrad
Black's company Ravelston Corp. declared bankruptcy)
It was another bad week in the saga of Lord Conrad Black and the
crumbling web of companies he built to publish newspapers in the United
States and around the world. The former press baron lost a . . .
WEB REVENUE GROWTH: 50-ISH PERCENT.
Though publicly traded publishers don't make it particularly
easy to figure out how they're doing in the new media world, a
perusal of the quarterly earnings reports released over the last . . .
AD REVENUE CONTINUES TO LOOK GOOD IN HEARTLAND But it's the
same old song for metros, coastal newspapers.(advertising
revenues)
Second verse, same as the first: The remainder of the
industry's publicly traded companies reported the quarter's
earnings last week and the song was pretty much the same as for the
first batch: . . .
PERSONS.
Publisher: At the Washington Examiner, Herb Moloney III has been
named publisher; most recently he was chief operating officer of Vertis
North America. A longtime advertising executive, Moloney . . .
BRIEFS.
* Morris changes paper to tab: The paper that serves the community
that includes the South Carolina resort town Hilton Head Island has
changed from a broadsheet to tabloid and will become a . . .
GENERAL MOTORS DROPS LA TIMES.
In apparent retaliation for a poor review of a new car on which the
automaker had pinned many hopes, General Motors said on Thursday it
would stop corporate advertising in the Los Angeles Times . . .
BOSTON: ONE PAPER EXPANDS, ONE CONTRACTS.
While the Boston Globe talked last week of expansion the Boston
Herald continued its talk of contraction.
On Tuesday, the publisher of the Herald told a local television
reporter that the cuts in . . .
VALUE OF NEWSPAPER M&A ACTIVITY UP 244% IN 1ST QUARTER Survey
finds that 23 newspaper deals in early 2005 were worth $2B.(merger
Against a backdrop of a variety of newspaper mergers and
acquisitions last week, a leading New York investment bank said that
the value of newspaper deals in the first quarter of 2005 went up . . .
PERSONS.
Publishers: At the Daily Star of Hammond, La., Keenan Gingles has
been named publisher; previously he was part-owner and publisher of
Texas" Ennis Daily News. A Louisiana native, Gingles started . . .
BRIEFS.
* Abitibi buys back some notes, issues others: The Canadian
newsprint maker Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. in March offered to redeem
all of its 2005 notes and some of its 2006 notes, while at the . . .
NEWSPAPER COUPON FACE VALUE HITS $1.(average face value of a
discount coupons exceeds)
A media research firm has determined that last year the average
face value of a coupon in a newspaper pre-print section exceeded $1 for
the first time. Marx Promotion Intelligence says that the . . .
LORD BLACK SUFFERS 4 MARCH SETBACKS.
"Beware the Ides of March," said the soothsayer to Julius
Caesar, and while he wasn"t assassinated, March was still a bad
month for the Lord Conrad Black, the former head of one of the . . .
NYT SAYS Q1 ADS 'REMAINED UNEVEN'; YET SAYS EPS WAY UP
Big part of earnings to come from asset sales, not revenue.
As a precursor to its first quarter results report scheduled for
next week, The New York Times Co. said last Tuesday that it anticipates
that earnings per diluted share will be around 75 cents, up . . .
PERSONS.(newspaper publishing industry appointments)
Publishers: At the Los Angeles Times, Jeff Johnson has been named
president, publisher and chief executive; previously he had been the
paper"s senior vice president and general manager, a job . . .
BRIEFS.
* JRC says Q1 to miss target: In an announcement of a presentation
it will make tomorrow, Journal Register Co., said last week that it
expects to hit the "low end" of its targeted earnings for . . .
MORRIS HAD GOOD Q4, GOOD 2004.(financial reports of Morris
Publishing Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
A division of Morris Communications Co. LLC, a privately held
business, last week reported its results for the last quarter of 2004
and for the entire year.
Morris Publishing Group LLC, of . . .
GANNETT DOES TAB -- JUST A LITTLE BIGGER.(Gannett Company Inc.
changes Journals' format)
In an apparent effort to go the current trend of tabloid newspapers
one better, Gannett Co. Inc. said last week that it would change the
format of its Journal and Courier of Lafayette, Ind., from . . .
BIG THREE BUY INTO ON-LINE NEWS CLASSIFIER TOPIX.NET GCI, KRI,
TRB now each own 25% of site, categorizing technology.
With last week"s investment in the on-line news site
Topix.net, a trio of the largest publicly traded newspaper companies has
for the third time banded together in a new media project.
Gannett . . .
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