LEE HIRES KIDS TO REACH KIDS.(Lee Enterprises Inc. launches
website)(Brief Article)
Just three weeks after announcing a youth-oriented weekly at its
paper in Madison, Wis., Lee Enterprises Inc. said last week that it had
launched a web site in its hometown of Davenport, Iowa, . . .
WASHINGTON POST CO. REVENUE UP 16%.(Brief Article)
Much like The E.W. Scripps Co. seems to have become a cable
television network business with some newspapers scattered here and
there, the Washington Post Co. seems to have become an education . . .
NEWSDAY OFF BY 9%; SUN-TIMES OFF BY 23%.(Brief Article)
Publishers of the two daily papers that have been censured by the
Audit Bureau of Circulations for inflating the numbers of copies of
newspapers sold last week began to talk about exactly how much . . .
NEWSPRINT MAKERS HAVE BAD Q2.
Despite most newspaper publishers saying that they had spent as
much as 12 percent more on newsprint in the second quarter of 2004 (and
that the Pulp and Paper Products Council said consumption . . .
FLORIDA, TO KANSAS, TO MICROSOFT, DEALS ABOUND Towsend sells
Liberty Tribune, Better Built sells Daily Commercial.(Townsend
Comm
July newspaper mergers and acquisitions seemed to keep pace with
the first half of the year, with sales of newspapers in Kansas and
Florida and newspaper companies apparently expressing interest . . .
PERSONS.(Carter, Danny has been named managing editor)(Davis,
Kirk has been named chief executive and publisher)(Schueler, John
In and out: At Northern California's Alameda Newspaper Group
(Oakland Tribune, et. al.), John Schueler has been named publisher and
president; previously he was president and chief executive . . .
PUBLISHER CAPITULATES TO GANNETT.(Brief Article)
An independent publisher in Green Bay, Wis., said last week that he
had sold his daily and a group of other papers to Gannett Co. Inc., the
company he had said for decades had been trying to put . . .
GOING FOR NON-OLD MILWAUKEE.
Not to be left out in the proverbial cold, Journal Communications
Inc. said last week that it plans to launch a free weekly tabloid and
companion web site in Milwaukee aimed at the 25- to . . .
NEWSDAY, HOY SCANDAL STILL SMOLDERS.
Two executives at Tribune Co.'s Long Island newspapers,
Newsday and Hoy, took accelerated retirement last week as the
circulation scandal that has beset the two papers for almost a . . .
AD REVENUE FINALLY SHOWS SOME CLASS Second quarter results
confirm trend: classifieds, heartland back.
With the final second-quarter results in, it is clear: classified
is coming back. As with the earnings announcements from the eight
publicly traded newspaper companies that reported last week, . . .
PERSONS.(Sherman Bodner,Bob Balzer, Pam Siddall,Jay
Lenkersdorfer,Therese Hayt, Juan Elizondo, Nancy Benben have been
appointed)
Texas two-step: At Texas' El Paso Times, Sherman Bodner has
been named publisher; he will continue as chief executive officer of
Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership, a Gannett-MediaNews . . .
BRIEFS.(Wall Street Journal reaches tentative agreement with its
union members)(Hollinger Inc.,files suit on shareholders right
*DJ, union, reach pact: Three weeks after a byline strike and more
than a year after negotiations started at its Wall Street Journal, the
paper's parent said last Friday that it had reached a . . .
PULP SHIPMENTS UP; NEWSPRINT DOWN.(what newspaper analysts have
to say)
Numbers -- and opinions about the newsprint industry -- came in
mixed last week as on Monday the American Forest & Paper
Association said that global shipments of pulp were up year-over-year
16.2 . . .
HEARST OFFERS TO SETTLE?(Hearst Corp., to settle negotiations
with Seattle Times Co.,)
In an apparent attempt to restart stalled negotiations, The Hearst
Corp. disclosed last week that it had been negotiating with its joint
operating agreement partner, The Seattle Times Co., as . . .
FARMERS, WIRES AND WEEKLIES ARE THE LATEST PRIZES SOUGHT LEE
stretches agriculture reach; DJ, PTZ expand in existing
markets.(Hi
As summer gets into full swing, newspaper publishers aren't
out on the beach or goofing off -- they're making acquisitions. In
the last few weeks three publicly held companies have bought . . .
PERSONS.(Neal Ronquist,Jerry Fuchs,Don Bricker,Ron
Gutierrez,Cathy Wilkerson get appointed)
Publishers: At The Courier of Russellville, Ark., Neal Ronquist has
been named publisher; previously he was publisher of Minnesota's
Austin Daily Herald. A seven-year veteran of the Austin paper . . .
NEWSPAPER SALARIES ON THE RISE.
Publishers and general managers saw an average salary increase last
year of about 10 percent, a report on newspaper compensation released
last week said.
The 2004 Newspaper Industry Compensation . . .
ABC CENSURES NEWSDAY, HOY, SUN-TIMES.(Audit Bureau of
Circulations audit reports)
Against a backdrop of censure by the Audit Bureau of Circulations,
Tribune Co. last week said that it had found additional inaccurate
circulation reports at its New York newspapers, Newsday and . . .
REVENUE SILVER LINING IN SMALL DAILIES, CLASSIFIED Metros, those
on the coasts, local, and national have poor Q2 showings.(Dow J
With only a few drab spots on the landscape, newspaper ad revenues
for the first half of the year -- or at least those given by the eight
publicly traded companies that reported last week -- were, . . .
PERSONS.(John Gryka,Tommy Harris,Huber Mark,Roger Coleman get
appointed)
In one door, out the other: At The Press-Enterprise of Riverside,
Calif., John Gryka has been named managing editor; previously he had
been deputy managing editor. A seven-year veteran of the . . .
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