MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
John Walcott is the winner of the first I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. He and his reporters did not fall for the deceit pushed by those high in the Bush administration.
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
May 25, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO -- Among the legacies of combat for up to 20 percent of veterans are brain injuries that can impair basic functions for months, years or decades, according to numerous medical experts who spoke at a recent conference here on combat-related brain injuries. While clinicians currently work with a sparse arsenal for treating these largely invisible injuries, the speakers
Market Wire - Lifestyle and Leisure: Family (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
AKRON, OH (MARKET WIRE) In the same community where newspaper pioneer John S. Knight built his media empire, a group of journalists, including several with direct ties to the late Mr. Knight, announce the formation of a new digital media company that embraces the high Knight ideals.
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
March 27, 2008 Mar. 27--In these politically correct times, words like "mental retardation" can wind up on the endangered list. In Missouri, it winds up on the Senate floor. Two bills in the Missouri General Assembly seek to change the name of the state's Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Senate Bill 756 and House Bill 1627 are asking to change the name to the "less
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
"We are going to be hit by recession, we are going to be hit by inflation...," said Kuwaiti oil industry analyst Kamel A Al-Harami on the likely correction in the oil market which hit a record high of $94.78 per barrel yesterday. Kuwait stands... Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com...
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Just two years ago, McClatchy Co. President and CEO Gary Pruitt boasted the sunniest disposition of all newspaper executives. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, he toasted newspapers as "still among the best media businesses" as his firm's purchase of the Knight Ridder chain tripled its print holdings. [ more ... ]
Complete Free Press Newswire (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
The McClatchy Co. announced a write-down of its assets totaling nearly $1.5 billion. It's a reflection of the state of the newspaper industry and the troubles McClatchy has encountered since buying fellow publisher Knight Ridder in 2006.
Recovering Journalist (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
The reverberations of McClatchy's "what were they thinking?" acquisition of Knight Ridder continue: For the second quarter in a row, McClatchy has been forced to take a writedown of nearly $1.4 billion in goodwill because of the declining value of...
Marksonland (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008
I think I told this story once before in this blog, but I'll tell it again. When Topix first started to talk with Knight Ridder way back when, we had a meeting with lots of the KR higher ups. At...
Media Grunt: Michael Bazeley (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008
April 27, 2006: Ridder: Singleton will be a very good steward of the Merc “While McClatchy may be buying Knight Ridder, we’re getting the flagship and the crown jewel of Knight Ridder,'’ Dean Singleton told the San Jose Mercury News staff Wednesday. He appeared with KR CEO Tony Ridder, who called Singleton a man who “loves [...]
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The Detroit Free Press missed the breakup of Knight-Ridder, and subsequent of the KRI properties by McClatchy by less than a year, having been sold to Gannett in the same deal that saw the Detroit News sold to MediaNews, a Denver-based company. Here's what the Freep missed : The McClatchy Co. could be on track to write off half of the $4.4 billion it paid for the Knight Ridder newspapers it proudly...
Reflections of a Newsosaur (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The McClatchy Co. could be on track to write off half of the $4.4 billion it paid for the Knight Ridder newspapers it proudly acquired in the summer of 2006. The dramatic failure of the transaction – which took place in the early days of a catastrophic downturn for the newspaper industry that few foresaw at the time – is evident in McClatchy's announcement today that it will have to take the
OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 25/01/2008
[Original post date 14 Jan 08; updated and bumped 25 Jan 08; scroll down] Kevin G. Hall is a reporter for McClatchey News Service, formerly known as Knight-Ridder, which for many years has been the Dr. Pepper of the wire services. Hall breathlessly reports that he has concluded a ”10-month” investigation on “four continents” that has called into question whether North [...]
OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 15/01/2008
Kevin G. Hall is a reporter for McClatchey News Service, formerly known as Knight-Ridder, which for many years has been the Dr. Pepper of the wire services. Hall breathlessly reports that he has concluded a ”10-month” investigation on “four continents” that has called into question whether North Korea counterfeited U.S. currency. DPRK Forum links to this eight-paragraph one-pager. After reading it,...
smays.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Mindy McAdams (Teaching Online Journalism) points to a very interesting post by Paul Conley. Mr. Conley has held senior positions at Knight-Ridder, CNN, Primedia/Prism and Bloomberg. He serves on the professional advisory boards of College Media Advisers, the national group that works with student journalists, and Northwest Missouri State University's Mass Communications program. His clients include...
