Today's BJ headline on the sale

Black Press a dark horse in Beacon race
Winner quickly seized lead, despite public focus on Advance

Jim Mackinnon joins Gloria Irwin for an analysis of the Beacon Journal sale in an A1 story in Sunday’s newspaper. They note that speculation had been running high that Advance Publications, the PD owner, would be the bid winner. Indeed, 1590 WAKR Akron’s news authority reported that only the ink had to dry on the sale.

McClatchy’s Gary Pruitt chuckled late last week after he was told that an Akron radio station reported the rumors of Advance's ink needing to dry on a contract. ``Dewey beats Truman, huh?'' he said, referring to the infamous Chicago Daily Tribune headline blunder of 1948.

[The winning bidder, David Black of Black Papers Ltd., is scheduled to visit the BJ on Monday.]

Click on the headline to read the analysis story.