Tuesday, August 02, 2022

KNIGHT-RIDDER EXECUTIVE JEROME CEPPOS PASSES AWAY

 Jerome Ceppos passes away

Former Mercury News executive editor and Louisiana State University Mass Communication dean Jerome Ceppos, 75, passed away.

He left Knight-Ridder after playing a significant role there in 2005.

  • Clark Hoyt, reporter at the Detroit Free Press and Miami Herald Washington correspondent, wrote the article about Ceppos’ passing.
Knight Ridder, based in San Jose, is defunct and The Mercury News is owned by MediaNews Group. John S. Knight, who inherited the heavily in debt Akron Beacon Journal from his father in 1933, built one of America’s finest newspaper groups, Knight Newspapers. BJ owners were Knight, Knight-Ridder, McClatchy, Black Press, Gatehouse Media and, today, Gannett, passed around and plundered for survival and profit. The BJ began in 1839. 

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