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Oh, this’ll help
Gannet is taking steps to rebrand itself, de-emphasizing its newspapers and emphasizing its digital offerings: The goal is to communicate that the company — long identified as the nation’s largest…
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MNI Responds To, Misrepresents Pension Story
McClatchy Watch has posted a rather peeved response from McClatchy corporate on that cryptic $77m. loss to MNI’s pension fund. In it the company both confirms that it assumes MNI…
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Odds on N&R sale
In this Cone thread, veteran newspaperman Charles Womack speculates either Paxton or McClatchy will buy the N&R. I speculated a while back that McClatchy would be the best bet, then…
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McClatchy is Worse Off Than I Think. Huh?
Sometimes I wonder if I’m being too critical of the Uptown paper of record’s corporate parent. But then I stumble on stuff which has an even less kind take on…
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McClatchy Starts Selling Off Parts
As Meck Deck readers were told would happen, McClatchy today was forced to begin to hack off parts in order to raise cash. This morning it was the MNI stake…
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KR Biz Critic Done With McClatchy
Of passing note is news that Private Capital Management has cycled out of owning McClatchy stock. PCM was one of the large institutional investors in Knight Ridder that pleaded for…
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More McClatchy Bad News?
Long-time newspaper and Net exec Alan Mutter points out on his blog that McClatchy is rapidly losing whatever value it got from the 2006 Knight Ridder transaction: The deep drop…
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Memo From a Paper Crunch
They are calling in the dreaded consultants up in Minneapolis, where the former Knight Ridder flagship the Star Tribune continues to bleed out. This internal memo has the details, including…
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McClatchy in Kentucky
Very interesting flap in Lexington, where the local paper — the Herald-Leader — is also a former Knight Ridder property. More importantly, labor is locked in a fight with management…
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The Observer: A Good Paper?
That is the premise Charlotte magazine editor Richard Thurmond starts with in the course of a column about how the McClatchy take-over will likely dull the Uptown paper of record’s…
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McClatchy Year One
A year ago McClatchy bought Knight-Ridder. That was about $1.5 billion in market cap ago, as the company’s stock has done a nose-dive. Coincidence? I think not. But there are…
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Meanwhile, in Philly
Another former Knight Ridder paper is reportedly looking at staff cuts of up to 30 percent. Will the same thing happen in Charlotte? Dunno, but I have heard that some…