Media General has sold 63 newspapers to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway for $142 million in cash.... Read more»
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»2
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets—without the hope for “next year.”... Read more»8
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
A Senate committee endorsed legislation Wednesday that would create a state-run database of statutory public notices that have been published in newspapers.... Read more»
Thwarted in his attempt to allow statutory public notices to appear on websites rather than in newspapers, a lawmaker now wants to create a state-run database of public notices that have been published in newspapers.... Read more»
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 House panel rejected a bill Thursday that would have allowed governments to post required notices about public meetings, budgets and other matters on their websites instead of purchasing ads in newspapers.... Read more»
With budgets tight and the world increasingly connected by the Internet, state lawmakers and publishers are wrangling over whether the future of public notices should include paying for ads to run in newspapers.... Read more»
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
It is time for a leadership change at the Republic; Publisher John Zidich of Fiesta Bowl board fame and his executive editor Randy Lovely need to go. We don’t need a daily rag of negativism and half-assed reporting; I can get that from any blog out there. The Republic has gone rogue and it needs correcting.... Read more»
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. announced Wednesday that it is buying the Omaha World-Herald Co., which owns the local paper in Buffer’s hometown.... Read more»
Hundreds of police officers, many wearing riot helmets, marched into lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park last week. The first thing the police did was clear out the journalists so that they could not see what was going on. Ironically, the owners of at least three New York newspapers could not have been happier.... Read more»
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
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