MediaNews Group, Inc.

William Dean Singleton is the CEO of MediaNews Group, Inc..

Based in Denver Colorado, MediaNews Group is a large American newspaper company which is privately owned and controlled by CEO William Dean Singleton.

The company operates over 50 daily newspapers and 120 non-daily publications in 12 states with combined daily circulation of approximately 2.7 million. Each newspaper maintains a web site focused on local news content, which is aggregated under the umbrella site newschoice.com.

MediaNews Group has joint ventures with a number of other media companies. These include a California newspaper partnership with Gannett Company, another California venture with Hearst Corporation and several Colorado ventures with E.W. Scripps Company.

CEO Singleton is known as an acquisition-minded and numbers-oriented newspaper executive who focuses on cost controls. At the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in April 2006, he said that newspapers have become insular and boring. "We've got to make them much more compelling than they are today," he said. "As an industry, for the last 30 years we've edited newspapers for each other and to win awards so we could pat each other on the back."

Singleton has said that he would not take his company public because he would lose control. "I can't imagine having the Wall Street analysts run my company for me," he said.

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Eric Kallgren   Boulder, Colorado	Posted at 2:58pm on Monday, February 26th, 2007
wonder, Thanks for the info about these newspapers. I have updated our coverage of the Humboldt Sun in Nevada and the Humboldt Beacon in California.
wonder   fortuna	Posted at 1:26pm on Saturday, February 24th, 2007
MNG does not own a paper in Nevada. Perhaps you have it confused with the Humbolt Beacon which MNG does own? http://humboldtbeacon.com/
Eric Kallgren   Boulder, Colorado	Posted at 3:23pm on Monday, February 19th, 2007
Ari, The link to the West Covina Highlander on this page will take you to the profile of that newspaper at MondoTimes.com. The Mondo Times profile includes a link to the home page of the Highlander. Also, people who are paying members of Mondo Times see detailed contact information on each profile page.
Ari del Rosario   Covina, California	Posted at 1:32pm on Monday, February 19th, 2007
I think that you should make it easier to find contact information on this website, because I've been trying to find a phone number, or adress, or even an email adress that I can use to contact the West Covina Highlander, but the links just take me back to same page everytime. The page that only gives me a so-called profile of the paper. I think you should add a hyperlink or something that can connect people to the main website. This would make it easier to get contact information. Thank you for your time.

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