MediaNews Group, Inc. profile and media properties

Serge Crespy    Collingwood, Ontario CA

Posted at 3:05pm on Sunday, September 4, 2011

COPY:


URGENT FAX
August 31st, 2011



To: The Honorable Barack Obama,
President of The United States of America

Fax: (202) 456-2461


Re: REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT


Dear Mr. President:

I take this opportunity to suggest a simple (no-doubt, previously investigated) method of reducing unemployment in America:

The “ME” must be in balance with the “WE”

Americans should consider the forty-hour week to be the absolute standard for employment; any additional employment hours robs many individuals of a fair opportunity to be employed.

Emergency personnel can be excluded from logging more than a maximum forty-hour work week during emergencies, however, their annual total hours of employment to be the same as all “employed” Americans; excluded from such would be all self-employed individuals.

With kindest regards, I remain;


Sincerely,



Serge Crespy
P.O. Box 383,
Collingwood, ON
L9Y 3Z7

Media Owners editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 1:14pm on Friday, January 21, 2011

The Shakeup at MediaNews: Why It Could Be the Leadup to a Massive Newspaper Consolidation

-- Writing at Nieman Journalism Lab on January 20, 2011, former MediaNews publisher Martin Langeveld shares his perspective on the company's bankruptcy filing and leadership shakeup:

"Over the past few years, opportunities for Singleton to pursue his vision came to a halt. MediaNews could not outrun the ticking clock of debt accumulation; revenues plummeted; newspaper values tumbled; and lenders threatened foreclosure. Lodovic engineered a strategic and very quick bankruptcy that wiped out $765 million in debt by placing nearly all of the company’s stock in the hands of the former bondholders. Remarkably, the bankruptcy reorganization left him and Singleton in charge and with a small equity stake, plus the opportunity to earn back an equity position up to 20 percent. They also had theoretical control in the form of the power to appoint a majority of the board.

It was an unusual outcome — in other major newspaper bankruptcies, the lenders have imposed new management."

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Media Owners editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 5:05pm on Tuesday, January 18, 2011

MediaNews Group Chief to Step Down

-- William Dean Singleton to become executive chairman upon hiring of new CEO, the Denver Post reported on January 18, 2011:

"Denver Post owner MediaNews Group Inc. said today it is launching a search for a new chief executive officer to succeed current CEO and chairman William Dean Singleton.

Upon hiring of the new chief executive, Singleton will become executive chairman of MediaNews Group, the nation's second-largest newspaper company by circulation. Singleton will remain chairman and publisher of The Denver Post and the Salt Lake Tribune."

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C Scholz    Berkeley, CA

Posted at 10:54pm on Friday, June 12, 2009

Good luck with that. The so-called "Berkeley Voice", a "free" weekly, dropped like the garbage it is on my doorstep every Friday, is "published" by these weasels from another county. The bulk of the paper is real estate listings. I got it to stop -- once, briefly -- by flagging down a delivery vehicle I chanced to see one morning. Otherwise, forget it. They hide their contact info on purpose.

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 12:47pm on Friday, May 29, 2009

In the June 2009 edition of 5280 magazine, writer Maximillian Potter offers some insight into the character of MediaNews chairman Singleton (in a story about the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post):

"A Texan and former newspaper reporter, Singleton had fashioned MediaNews into one of the nation's largest newspaper companies by acquiring papers on the brink of closure and attempting to make them profitable by dramatically cutting staff and undercutting competing papers. One of his first acquisitions, in the 1970s, was the Fort Worth Press, where his tactics so enraged the newsroom that when he visited the paper staffers pelted him with empty beer cans. Within a year, Singleton shut the paper down. Moving on, he borrowed millions of dollars and built his newspaper empire by being heavily leveraged and outlasting competing papers. A New York Times article once claimed that those in the newspaper business widely regard Singleton as "the industry's leading skinflint."

The full article:
www.5280.com/issues/2009/0906/feature.php?pageID=1740

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado

Posted at 2:58pm on Monday, February 26, 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 24, 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 19, 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 19, 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.