MediaNews Group, Inc.

C Scholz    Berkeley, CA

Posted at 10:54pm on Friday, June 12th, 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 29th, 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 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.