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State Of AP: Singleton: Less Than 25 Percent Of 2009 Revs From Member Newspapers; No New Century Net - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 14 Apr 2008 08:51 PM PST

For a sense of the dramatic shift at the Associated Press in the digital age, consider this: by 2009, less than 25 percent of Associated Press revenues will come from…

MediaNews To Go Completely Silent On SEC Filings - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 12 Apr 2008 07:14 PM PST

MediaNews Group, the privately held newspaper company, the nation’s fourth-largest, will stop filing documents with SEC, according to its last filing with SEC. “On April 4, 2008, MediaNews Group, Inc.…

MediaNews Taps Time Inc. Online Vet Knowlton, Comcast Spotlight’s Winkler For Internet Roles - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 19 Mar 2008 01:32 PM PST

MediaNews Group, which began a series of layoffs earlier this month, has just made two new senior hires with considerable interactive backgrounds. Most notably, former Sports Illustrated GM Oliver Knowlton…

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Newspaper Roundup: Layoffs At Two Dozen Bay Area Dailies; Duluth News Also Plans Job Cuts - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 07 Mar 2008 04:17 PM PST

The end of the week brought more announcements of job losses and plans to cut staffs at newspapers in the Midwest and West, most notably, the San Jose Mercury News…

NAA Conference: Tierney: Focus On Older Audience; Stop Self-Flagellation; Singleton On Wireless - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 26 Feb 2008 10:54 AM PST

At Newspaper Association of America’s Marketing Conference in Orlando this week, lotsa talk about, well, newspapers, and the future. Brian Tierney, owner of Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com, added his two…

Newspaper Roundup: Bay Area Buyouts; OC Register; Scripps Paper Folds - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 20 Feb 2008 09:53 AM PST

MediaNews Group’s Bay Area News Group offers buyouts to all employees: In what may be the most drastic move yet by a newspaper publisher—short of shutting down—the Bay Area News…

Earnings: MediaNews Revs Down 7.2 Percent On Ad Weakness; Internet Down 8.3 Percent; Kaango Details - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 18 Feb 2008 09:05 AM PST

Privately-held newspaper publisher MediaNews Group has filed its latest quarterly figures with the SEC, showing revenue of $345.2 million, down 7.2 percent from $372.4 million. A 9.1 percent decrease in…

Newspaper Roundup: Chicago Sun-Times; Mercury News; WaPo; Lee Enterprises - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Jan 2008 10:49 AM PST

Chicago Sun-Times: The Sun-Times Media Group-owned paper intends to cut 40 positions including 35 newsroom posts. The other five positions are in management. Last month, the company said it planned…

MediaNews and Hearst Buy Majority in Classifieds Site Kaango For $20 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 14 Nov 2007 06:36 PM PST

This was buried in newspaper conglom MediaNews‘s 10-Q filed earlier today with SEC: the newspaper group, along with The Hearst Corp., has bought 80 percent of online classifieds and software…

Zillow.com Makes Deal With 11 Newspaper Chains To Carry Real Estate Ads - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 12 Nov 2007 10:16 PM PST

Real estate site Zillow.com, which specializes in house price comparisons, will carry real estate listings from 11 newspaper publishers including Hearst Newspapers, Lee Enterprises, (NYSE: LEE) MediaNews Group, EW Scripps…

New Newspaper Ad Net May Compete With Yahoo; Gannett, Hearst, Tribune, MediaNews, Cox In Talks - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Nov 2007 08:38 AM PST

Five of the largest U.S. newspaper chains are considering a new national ad network that could both overlap and compete with the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) newspaper consortium, according to the…

Mercury News Tries To Catch Up, After Being In the Perpetually Poised Position For Social Media - 6 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 26 Oct 2007 03:52 PM PST

Early last month, San Jose Mercury News‘ executive editor Carole Leigh Hutton addressed the Silicon Valley daily paper’s 200 staffers to inform them that severe cuts would soon be coming.…

Hearst Buys Stake In MediaNews Group For $317 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 22 Oct 2007 03:05 PM PST

Hearst has paid $317 million for a stake in rival newspaper publisher MediaNews Group, Reuters reported, citing a regulatory filing. The complicated deal involves the ownership of several newspaper in…

MediaNews Goal: Triple Web Revenue By 2012, Would Equal 20 Percent Of Company Sales - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 21 Oct 2007 10:21 PM PST

Dean Singleton has put his MediaNews Group on notice. The chairman and CEO of the Denver-based newspaper company told his staff in a company-wide memo (posted as a text file…

Acquisitions Spur Revenue Growth at MediaNews; Ad Sales Continue to Slump - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 02 Oct 2007 12:03 PM PST

Privately held newspaper publisher MediaNews Group has filed its annual report with the SEC, which shows revenue growth of of 59 percent ($1.3 billion vs. $835 million) fueled by acquisitions…

Newspapers To See Profit Boost From Partnership With Yahoo: Analyst - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 28 Sep 2007 01:05 PM PST

Analysts at Deutsche Bank have released a slightly surprising bullish assessment of the wide-ranging partnership between several newspaper publishers and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) that was announced last November. The analysts’…

Yahoo-Newspapers: Conference Call: Why Yahoo? Timelines, Plans, Etc. - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 20 Nov 2006 03:48 PM PST

Picking up again with the Yahoo-newspaper consortium call ... can’t help wondering if there’s some formula to determine the likelihood of success based on how many different entities are involved…

Yahoo-Newspapers: More Details: Search, Local Listings Included; Co-Branded Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 20 Nov 2006 06:28 AM PST

Some more details about thre Yahoo-newspaper deal we’ve been writing about for the last couple of days. In addition to HotJobs, the other features iof the agreement with a seven-newspaper…

It’s Official: Yahoo HotJobs-Seven Newspaper Publishers Join Forces; Deal Includes Local News - 4 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 19 Nov 2006 07:56 PM PST

ScrippsNews appears to have jumped the gun by a few hours by running a done-deal story about a “wide-reaching alliance” between Yahoo and seven publishers. Some of the details have…

Preliminary Talks Underway For MediaNews-Hearst Bay Area Mega-Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 03 Jul 2006 12:08 PM PST

McClatchy’s sale of the Contra Costa Times and the San Jose Mercury News is still pending federal approval but would-be owner MediaNews is already knee-deep in the hooplah, particularly when…