AD SPENDING TO GROW; COUPONS ALREADY DID.(newspaper
advertising)
Two surveys by a New York City media research firm released this
month indicate that ad spending increases for newspapers in 2005 will
be about five percent and that in 2004, more than 250 billion . . .
LATE DECEMBERS, EARLY JANUARY RESULTS: BLECH BLC, JRC report
December, Q4, 2004 results; DJ, SSP detail January.(A.H. Belo Corp.
With a couple of publicly traded newspaper companies tardy with
their December and fourth-quarter reports and a couple of companies
especially early with their January reports, this week is a . . .
PERSONS.(appointments)
Executive suite: At Morris Publishing Group LLC of Augusta, Ga.,
Mark Cohen has been named vice president of the eastern division (nine
dailies, nine shoppers); previously he was a vice president . . .
BRIEFS.
*MEG to sell 20% of Denver paper: Media General Inc. said last week
that it had agreed to sell its 20 percent of the Denver Post to
MediaNews Group, the owner of the remainder of the paper. Under . . .
NEW HOLLINGER CEO PAID $2M PER YEAR.(Hollinger International Inc.
chief executive officer Gordon Paris)(Brief Article)
Embattled Hollinger International Inc. said last week that its new
chief executive, Gordon Paris, would receive a pay package that
included an annual salary of $2 million, plus the potential for as . . .
ANSCHUTZ HITS DC MARKET WITH TAB.(Philip Anschutz's Clarity
Media Inc. launches daily tabloid for Washington)
Clarity Media Inc. -- the newspaper publishing arm of the empire of
billionaire Philip Anschutz -- launched the Washington Examiner, its
new daily tabloid for the nation's capitol last week, making . . .
NEWSPRINT MAKERS LOSSES CONTINUE.
Fourth-quarter and year-end reports from the top three suppliers of
newsprint to U.S. publishers show that though they continue to lose
money, they are narrowing their various gaps.
In releases . . .
LEE TO BUY PULITZER FOR $1.4B -- 131/2 TIMES CASH FLOW Iowa
publisher to become industry's 7th-largest, with 1.7M copies
daily.(
And then there were 12.
With its planned acquisition of Pulitzer Inc., Lee Enterprises Inc.
reduces the total number of publicly traded U.S. newspaper companies by
7.7 percent, making Lee the . . .
PERSONS.(appointments and resignations)
Ins and outs of Knight Ridder: At the Miami Herald, Albert
Ibarguen has resigned to become president and chief executive of the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also of Miami, effective . . .
BRIEFS.
*Newsday bogus sampling scheme revealed: Reporters at Newsday, the
embattled Long Island newspaper that has admitted that it overstated
its circulation by almost 10 percent, wrote last week that . . .
FOURTH QUARTER, FULL 2004 RESULTS IN: NOT BAD; NOT GOOD Nine
pubic publishers report; GCI has record-setting year.(Gannett Co.
I
"It was a very good year." -- Frank Sinatra, not
necessarily singing about newspapers
Like the bands of American soldiers trying to deny the fact
they're stranded on an island with bands of . . .
PERSONS.(Dow Jones and Company Inc. appoints Michael
Elefante)(Hearst Publications-Hearst Business Group appoints Lincoln
Mill
Board of directors: At Dow Jones & Co., Michael Elefante has
been nominated to the board; he is a partner in the Boston law firm
Hemenway & Barnes, which acts as the primary trustee for . . .
BRIEFS.(Michael Powell decides to leave Federal Communications
Commission, Newsday Inc. cases, Tribune Review Publishing
reorgan
*Powell decides to leave FCC: Michael Powell, the Federal
Communications Commission chairman who attempted to reduce government
control over media ownership, confirmed on Friday that he was . . .
LITTLE PAPERS AND BIG WEB SITES.(Memorial Press Group Inc.
purchased Call Group Inc.,)
Expanding further into southeastern Massachusetts, the parent
company of the Patriot Ledger of Quincy said last week that it had
purchased two twice-monthly and one monthly newspaper in . . .
LEE SEES GOOD FIRST QUARTER.(Lee Enterprises Inc.)
Ad revenue on a same-property basis at the Davenport, Iowa-based
Lee Enterprises Inc. increased 5.8 percent last fall, compared to the
same period the year before, the company said last week, and . . .
PUBLISHING COMPANIES KEEP ADDING TO NEW MEDIA EMPHASIS NYT Co.,
Gannett and Scripps all relaunch or create new on-line sites.(E.
Multimedia companies continue to invest time and money in on-line
operations, with announcements from three newspaper publishers in recent
days that they are creating or relaunching web sites aimed . . .
PERSONS.(Michael Curtin named as vice chairman of Dispatch
Printing Co.)(Kenneth Hartnett of Standard-Times Publishing Co.
retir
Publishers: At The Sun in Lowell, Mass., Mark O'Neil has been
named publisher; previously he was senior vice president of sales and
marketing at Community Newspaper Corp. of suburban Boston. . . .
BRIEFS.(Vindicator Printing Co. mailers strike, Bowater Inc.
loss, Honolulu Advertiser)
*Mailers end 7-week Youngstown strike: Taking no wage increase --
but two bonuses -- and agreeing to contribute to health insurance, the
mail room employees who are members of Teamsters Local 473 . . .
SEATTLE PAPER TO LAY OFF 7% OF STAFF.
Reacting to what it says was a $12-million loss last year, a top
executive at the Seattle Times circulated a memo last week saying that
the paper plans to cut its full-time staff by between 90 and . . .
N.D., COLORADO PAPERS CHANGE HANDS.(North Dakota,mergers and
acquisitions of Newspaper publishing)
While investors speculated last week in New York City about the
fate of a financial web site and brickbats were being thrown in Boston
over a free daily tabloid, newspapers in North Dakota and . . .
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