I’ve got one of those calendars atop my monitor, the type you find in banks, with metal tiles for the days of the week, dates and month. One side I keep up to date. The other, no matter the date, says “Fri May 15.” That’s the last day the newsroom of the Tucson Citizen was filled with hustle and bustle.... Read more»
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Lee Enterprises, the beleaguered parent of the Arizona Daily Star, reported a $26.6 million second-quarter loss, mostly related to its recent bankruptcy, with advertising dipping another 5.3 percent the period ending March 25.... Read more»1
The CEO of Lee Enterprises was awarded a $500k bonus after the troubled newspaper chain emerged from bankruptcy, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Lee publishes the Arizona Daily Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and dozens of other newspapers around the U.S.... Read more»2
Lee Enterprises, the long-troubled parent company of the Arizona Daily Star and other daily newspapers, plans to charge readers to access the chain’s websites, the company announced Wednesday.... Read more»1
Longtime reporter Rhonda Bodfield is leaving the Arizona Daily Star. Bodfield — who’s held down the politics and local government beats, and previously covered education at the morning daily — confirmed Monday that her last day at the newspaper will be March 9.... Read more»1
A federal judge gave the nod Monday to a plan that puts off the day of reckoning for newspaper chain Lee Enterprises, the publisher of the Arizona Daily Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and some 50 other newspapers. Lee now has more time to pay off its $1 billion debt.... Read more»1
Lee Enterprises, the troubled parent company of the Arizona Daily Star, filed a “prepackaged” Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, asking a court to delay the due date on its $1 billion debt.... Read more»1
Lee Enterprises, the troubled parent company of the Arizona Daily Star, announced Friday that it will file a “prepackaged” bankruptcy as it struggles to push back paying off its $1 billion debt. The company is declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a minority of lenders refused to extend their loan terms.... Read more»2
Lee Enterprises, the troubled publisher of the Arizona Daily Star and more than 40 other newspapers around the country, declared a 4th-quarter loss, even as the company struggles to refinance its crushing debt. Is a bankruptcy in the cards?... Read more»1
Lee Enterprises, the troubled parent company of the Arizona Daily Star, refinanced a significant proportion of its crushing debt Thursday. The move, which came after Lee stock hit a 52-week low on Tuesday, may head off a threatened bankruptcy.... Read more»
A Q&A with TucsonSentinel.com’s editor and publisher was posted Tuesday by Block by Block, a national network of online news pioneers. The interview was prompted by the layoff of 52 employees at the Star; questions centered around our place in the local media landscape.... Read more»6
In case you missed it, yours truly pontificated for Fox 11 on the layoffs at the Daily Star last week.... Read more»
Updated with names: In what one now-former employee called “a major bloodletting,” the Arizona Daily Star has laid off 52 people, firing nearly its entire marketing department Thursday. As many as 15 newsroom employees and many from other departments were also let go.... Read more»13
I’ve got one of those calendars atop my monitor, the type you find in banks, with metal tiles for the days of the week, dates and month. One side I keep up to date. The other, no matter the date, says “Fri May 15.” That’s the last day the newsroom of the Tucson Citizen was filled with hustle and bustle.... Read more»3
Following the November departure of Tucson Newspapers head Mike Jameson, the Old Pueblo’s remaining daily newspaper shuffled its executives around, according to a Wednesday announcement.... Read more»
Mike Jameson, the head of Tucson Newspapers, the advertising and production agency for the Arizona Daily Star and its associated websites, has resigned, a company announcement said Monday.... Read more»
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