Hearst Corporation profile and media properties
Frank A. Bennack, Jr. is the CEO of Hearst Corporation.
Hearst Corporation is a privately owned company controlled by the Hearst family trust. The trust is managed by a 13 member board of trustees, which includes five Hearst family members and eight others, most of them longtime former Hearst Corporation executives. George R. Hearst Jr., is the company chairman.
The Hearst family trust was formed by William Randolph Hearst, who died in 1951. He created the trust to give his heirs ownership of the company, but limit their say in its operation. The trust will dissolve and give the Hearsts direct control of the company upon the death of the last Hearst heir who was living in 1951.
Hearst publishes magazines and newspapers, and operates TV stations. It owns 15 daily newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle, and a range of magazines including Opera, Cosmopolitan magazine and Esquire Magazine. The company holds stakes in cable networks including Lifetime and ESPN and operates iVillage, a women's web network.
In 2007, Hearst invested $288 million in the MediaNews Group, Inc., a struggling newspaper company.
On January 31, 2011, Hearst agreed to buy the international magazine business of Hachette Filipacchi Medias, a French publishing company controlled by Lagardère SCA. The deal includes almost all Hachette magazines published outside of France. Hearst paid 651 million euros for the business, which includes 102 titles in 15 countries.
The purchase includes all the American magazines previously controlled by Hachette Filipacchi Media US. Many of these are popular titles, such as Car and Driver magazine, Elle magazine, and Woman's Day.
Contact Information
| Web Site: | www.hearst.com |
| Telephone: | 212.649.2000 |
| Fax: | 212.649.2108 |
| Address: | 959 Eighth Ave. New York NY 10019-3737 USA |
National Media Properties
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Local Media Properties
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Other Hearst Corporation Properties
Hearst Entertainment Inc. (cable)
Hearst Interactive Media
Hearst Business Media
Lifetime Entertainment Services (50% ownership)
Comments about Hearst Corporation
Comments to date: 92. The most recent comments are below.Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 7:17am on Monday, June 6, 2011 |
-- June 2, 2011 -- Kate Kelly Smith is now senior vice president and publishing director and Patricia Haegele publishing director at Hearst. Smith was previously vice president, publisher and chief revenue officer at House Beautiful, while Haegele was senior vice president, publisher and chief revenue officer at Good Housekeeping. | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:17am on Monday, May 9, 2011 |
-- May 9, 2011 -- Suzanne Grethen is now vice president of promotion and marketing at Hearst Television, effective June 1. She was previously creative services director at Hearst's WESH TV 2 in Orlando. | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 4:31pm on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
-- April 26, 2011 -- Jack Rohan Jr. is now senior vice president, finance at Hearst. He was previously vice president, group controller there. | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:36am on Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
-- March 31, 2011 -- Steven R. Swartz t is now chief operating officer and Mark E. Aldam president of Hearst Newspapers. Swartz was previously senior vice president and Hearst Newspapers president, while Aldam was executive vice president and deputy group head. | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:22am on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 |
-- March 14, 2011 -- David Kang is now creative director, content extensions, at Hearst. He was previously senior vice president and general manager at Rodale Inc. | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:15am on Friday, March 4, 2011 |
Hearst Television Receives Walter Cronkite Award | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:16am on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 |
-- March 1, 2011 -- Fotoulla Euripidou is now vice president and director of consumer research at Hearst Magazines, effective March 21. She was previously with Rodale Inc. | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 5:29pm on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
-- February 22, 2011 -- Eliot Kaplan is now executive director, talent acquisition at Hearst. He was previously editorial talent director there. | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:17am on Monday, January 31, 2011 |
Lagardère Receives Binding Offer from Hearst for Non-French Magazine Business, Lagardère announced in Paris on January 31, 2011: | |
Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:29am on Monday, January 17, 2011 |
Condé/Hearst Tale of the Tape | |
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