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Breaking: MediaNews head toured Inky/DN MediaNews owns 40 daily newspapers in 9 states with a combined daily circulation of 1.7 million. (Sunday circ is about six million higher.) Among the company’s biggest papers are the Denver Post, the Detroit News and the Los Angeles Daily News. The company’s closest assets are the York Dispatch and Daily News. The company also owns the Lebanon Daily News. The company has been mentioned as a possible suitor for some of the 12 papers McClatchy will sell after buying Knight Ridder. Those papers include the Inquirer and Daily News. Update: Reports from DN staffers say that there are “some local people” interested in some Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. action, although no names were mentioned. |
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This just in: Dean Singleton, head of MediaNews Group, has toured the Inquirer and Daily News offices. He was interested in buying both papers if his company had been able to strike a partnership with Gannett before bids for Knight Ridder were solicited.
I was just wondering- what the hell’s going to happen to their websites? That’s standard Knight Ridder template- are they going to have the time and dough through all of this for the pain in the ass of a total redesign? If medianews buys and they have to go with something like the Detroit News’ site (detnews.com), that’d almost be as bad as the Evening Bulletin’s.
well, Fumo has mentioned himself, and recent articles name a few others looking to coordinate an investment group….