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Monday, July 31, 2006

3 L.A. Billionaires Have Eyes on Times

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Three billionaires hoping to buy the Los Angeles Times expressed their interest in separate letters this month to the paper's owner, Tri...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

Blantons mark 50th anniversary

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Watson Blanton, a 1992 retiree of the BJ engraving department, and wife, Rosetta, are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Watson and...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Guess what? BJ job cuts coming

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David Black, the new BJ owner, and his new publisher, Edward R. Moss, were in town to meet with the staff on Friday. BJ reporter Jim Mackin...
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Friday, July 28, 2006

McClatchy pays big bonuses

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(Honest: We did not mean this post to fall just above the one on reporter pay.) NEW YORK — McClatchy Co., the second-largest newspaper publ...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

The wages: never enough

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A report on small wages for journalists by Mark Fitzgerald in Editor & Publisher prompted a look back at a 1974 Beacon Journal contract...
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McClatchy-KRI exchange for tax purposes

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I got my check from McClatchy for $40 cash per share and 0.5118 a share of McClatchy stock for each share of KRI stock, plus McClatchy boug...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

BJ ad chief to leave

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The head of the Akron Beacon Journal's advertising department is leaving for a job as vice president of advertising at a daily newspaper...

2006 Knight-Batten Awards

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Seven new ways to connect people with news - from showing every Congressional vote, to warning where hurricanes will strike, to blogging the...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

They were old-timers in 1971

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“A lot of newspapering know-how is represented in this luncheon group,” the caption in the April/May 1971 issue of Tower Topics proclaimed....
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Friday, July 21, 2006

Take me home, country roads!

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By John Olesky (BJ 1969-96) Paula and I put 750 miles on the Odyssey minivan in three days July 18-20 as I showed her some of my native stat...
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Send in those stock certificates

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I am sending in my newspaper stock certificates by insured, registered mail and have kept copies of the certificates. No need to worry becau...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

AP reveals Israel censorship

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Here's some news you may never hear about Israel's war against Hezbollah: a missile falls into the sea, a strategic military install...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

New York Times to reduce page size

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The New York Times is planning to reduce the size of the newspaper, making it narrower by one and a half inches, and to close its printing o...
Monday, July 17, 2006

Edward R. Moss named BJ publisher

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By Mary Ethridge Beacon Journal business writer Edward R. Moss, an executive at a Virginia media company, was named the new publisher of the...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

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