James Asher Elected Hearst Trustee James M. Asher, senior vice president, chief legal and development officer, and board member of Hearst Corporation, has been elected one of the 13 lifetime trustees of the Hearst Family Trust. - July 01, 2009
N.Y. Times Co. 401(k) Plan Took a Beating in '08 Last year's stock market downturn took a big bite out The New York Times Co. employee 401(k) retirement plan, sending its net assets in 2008 down $171.9 million to $417.7 million. - June 30, 2009
After Debt Swap, S&P Briefly Rates McClatchy in 'Selective Default' Standard & Poor's Ratings Services downgraded The McClatchy Co.'s corporate credit rating into the near-rock-bottom SD, or "selective default," category, but said that on Tuesday it would raise it to CC, a rating deep in "junk" territory. - June 30, 2009
Troy Newspapers Appoints New Publisher Jim Murphy has been named the new publisher of the Journal Register Company's Troy Newspapers in Troy, N.Y., the company reported Tuesday. That group includes The Record of Troy, and three weeklies: Greenbush Life, Latham Life, and River Life. - June 30, 2009
Former Tribune CEO FitzSimons Joins Expanded Media General Board Media General, parent of The Tampa Tribune and the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, appointed former Tribune Co. Chairman and CEO Dennis J. FitzSimons to the board of directors, which it expanded by one member to ten. - June 24, 2009
'E&P' Readers Weigh in: Enough With the Michael Jackson Coverage Already! For our new Question of the Day feature we asked: Is the press overplaying the death of Michael Jackson? The question produced a good number of responses, even as wide coverage continues. - by Greg Mitchell - June 30, 2009
FORESTWEB Report: Exports of North American Newsprint, Domestic Consumption Both Down There's not a bright spot in the markets for North American newsprint, as reflected in data released June 23 by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC). In May, total U.S. consumption fell 26.6%, while exports declined 36.2%, both compared to a year earlier. - by Debra Garcia - June 30, 2009
Why 'E&P' Went Along With Media Blackout on Kidnapping Remember: when Jill Carroll was kidnapped, the Christian Science Monitor only managed to keep it a secret over a weekend. She was then held for months. Daniel Pearl's kidnapping also emerged fairly quickly -- and we all know how that one ended. - by Greg Mitchell - June 23, 2009
Deadly Threats at the Holocaust Museum -- From the Very Beginning: A Firsthand Account My daughter, just out of college, worked at the museum during its start-up, in 1992, through its 1993 opening, and two years after that. She told me long ago, and again last night, about some of the scary threats she and others received just for working there, and the extraordinary security measures (little publicized) they had to take. - by Greg Mitchell - June 12, 2009
What the Media Missed in Museum Shooting: The Far-Right Reaction In all of the coverage of the murder at the Holocaust Museum, much was made of the white supremacist writings of the alleged killer, James Von Brunn. But little appeared on the reaction to the tragic shooting within far-right circles. I visited Stormfront.org to find out. - by Greg Mitchell - June 10, 2009
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