PERSONS.(Messhed brief)
Publishers: At the Daily News in Red Bluff, Calif., Jay Harn has
been named publisher; most recently he was co-owner, editor and
publisher of East County Californian, a 50,000-circulation weekly . . .
BRIEFS.(meshed briefs)
*WPO gets debt upgraded: Moody's Investors Service of New York
City last week raised its rating of the senior debt of the Washington
Post Co. to stable; it had previously been negative. Moody's . . .
HLR EXPECTS TO SELL TELEGRAPH IN WEEKS.(Hollinger International
Inc.)
A simplified playing field has encouraged the investment bank
Lazard LLC to decide that it can wrap up the sale of the Telegraph
Group of London -- a unit of embattled Hollinger International . . .
JRN SEES BIG JUMP IN CLASS REVENUE.(Journal Communications
Inc.)
Double-digit growth in classified ad revenue was the highlight of
Journal Communications Inc.'s May statistical report.
For the period ending May 23, 2004, classified ad revenue at the
company's . . .
SPANISH MEDIA STILL ON ROLL.
English-language newspaper companies that start Spanish-language
publications are becoming less and less a phenomenon and more and more
a standard practice.
Late last month two events transpired . . .
OVERALL FIRST QUARTER AD SPENDING UP 9.6% Of total $31.5B spent,
local papers up 7.2%, Internet up 28.1%.
Overall ad spending in the first quarter of the year was strong, a
report released last week said, going up 9.6 percent to $31.5 billion
over the same time last year.
The spending report, . . .
PERSONS.(meshed briefs)
Publishers: At Ohio's Portsmouth Daily Times, Clifton Forrest
has been named publisher; previously he was vice president and chief
operating officer of Brill Media Co. in Evansville, Ind. In . . .
BRIEFS.(Meshed briefs)(Farragut Media Group Inc.)
*Trade group says newspaper spending up: First quarter newspaper
spending was up 3.5 percent when compared to last year, the Newspaper
Association of America said last week. The trade group said . . .
NEW FREEDOM AT FREEDOM.(Freedom Communications Inc.)
A new board of directors and a new ownership structure are sure to
influence the near- and long-term future of Freedom Communications Inc.
Last week the final paperwork was signed and two . . .
APPARENT LIGHT AT THE END OF THE AD RECESSION TUNNEL Strong
classified numbers at BLC, GCI, JRN, JRC, KRI, MEG, MNI, PTZ.
When Gannett Co. Inc. -- the largest publisher of newspapers in the
country -- says that it saw an April 2004 that had classified revenue
up 12.3 percent when compared to April 2003, on top of an . . .
PERSONS.(Appointed as)(Northwest Florida Daily News )
Twofer: At the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Dennis Francis has been
named publisher; previously he was general manager of the Honolulu
Advertiser. A 14-year veteran of the Advertiser and the . . .
BRIEFS.(meshed briefs)
*This week in HLR news: Lord Conrad Black, founder and majority
stockholder in Hollinger International Inc., the embattled owner of
newspapers in Chicago, London and Jersusalem, suffered a . . .
KRI, LEE BUY INTO ON-LINE AUCTIONS.(Brief Article)
Knight Ridder said last week that it has made a $2 million equity
investment in newspaper on-line auction provider CityXpress Corp., of
Vancouver, British Columbia, and Lee Enterprises Inc. said . . .
LIFE RETURNS AS A FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT.
A
number of major newspaper companies have signed up to the first
distributors of a newly revived Life magazine, which will be
distributed through papers weekly on Fridays. Tribune Co., . . .
TRIBUNE CO. CUTS STAFF, SPENDING.
Barely one month after announcing to its shareholders at its annual
meeting that, "we anticipate another strong year," Tribune Co.
said last week that it would cut 200 jobs and curb other spending . . .
MAY'S CLASSIFIED NUMBERS CONTINUE TO SHOW STRENGTH DJ, JRC,
SSP all with good results; TRB, up 3.2%, announces cuts.
Generally, ad revenue for May continued to look pretty good as four
more publicly traded newspaper companies reported their results last
week. Classified continued to be strong, with a couple of . . .
PERSONS.(appointments)
Publishers: At the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg, Pa., Paul Eyerly
IV has been named president and his brother, Brandon Eyerly, has been
named publisher; they are the fourth generation of the . . .
HOLLINGER EXEC TAKES DEAL.
Last week's episode of the soap opera that is Hollinger
International Inc. -- wherein independent directors of the company have
accused former management of taking more than $32.2 million . . .
SURVEY SAYS: LOCAL ADS ON WEB = $2.1B.
Local Internet ad spending amounted to more than $2.1 billion last
year and newspapers garnered the "lion's share" of the
money, according to the results of a survey released last week. . . .
MEDIANEWS, PULITZER: INVEST AND DIVEST.
Two leading newspaper publishers last week announced they were in
the mergers and acquisitions business, with MediaNews Group saying that
it would divest itself of everything but a small . . .
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