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Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
February 22, 2018
As people poured in, South Florida became a journalistic hotbed. In the early go-go days, Tribune, Knight Ridder, and Cox journalists went head-to-head, telling one great story after another in what had become the country's third-largest state. Newspapers' declining business fortunes have taken their toll,ÃÂ ...
Allentown Morning Call
February 22, 2018
Bob and Dawn Feckete rode cross country on their Harley Davidson with some friends and were married Aug. 12, 1995, in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo. (ROBERT CROSS/Knight-Ridder Tribune FIle). Bill WhiteContact ReporterOf The Morning Call. Young wedding toaster found inspiration.
AberdeenNews.com
February 21, 2018
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Parkland's kids demand change. By Leonard Pitts Jr. Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune; 12 hrs ago; 1. 2 min to read. You need to grow up.
The American Prospect
February 21, 2018
The newspaper was previously part of the Knight Ridder chain, once the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States. “We all complained about Knight Ridder,” Reynolds said. “Now we look back at those as the glory days.” Digital First is owned by Alden Global Capital, a private equity firm thatÃÂ ...
Deadline Detroit
February 17, 2018
Almost immediately after its Detroit purchase, Gannett persuaded Knight Ridder to call a truce and apply for a joint operating agreement, a provision of the Newspaper Act of 1970 that let newspapers merge business operations but maintain separate newsrooms. The agreement required Justice departmentÃÂ ...
Sacramento Business Journal
February 17, 2018
McClatchy's stock has declined by 98 percent since early 2005 amid declines in newspaper advertising and as the company has struggled under debt it took on with its $4.5 billion acquisition of Knight Ridder in 2006. McClatchy has repeatedly cut back staff to reduce expenses. Its stock rose 70 cents toÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 15, 2018
Tom Rapp, who founded Pearls Before Swine, an eclectic band much loved by aficionados of underground music in the 1960s and '70s, then became a civil rights lawyer, only to take an encore after being out of music for 20 years, died on Sunday at his home in Melbourne, Fla. He was 70. The cause wasÃÂ ...
Sports Illustrated
February 8, 2018
When I landed in Greece, my employer at the time, Knight-Ridder, gave us extensive training on how to use gas masks. Obviously, this was before newspaper chains realized that reporters dying en masse is cost-efficient. People were also concerned because Greece was bankrupt and did not start buildingÃÂ ...
Long Island Press
January 30, 2018
In the late 1940s, it was sold to Eric Ridder of the Knight-Ridder publishing syndicate, the second largest publisher in the nation at the time. Ridder was also an Olympic gold medalist in yachting. In the '80s, developer/builder Steven Thurman purchased and subdivided the 26-acre estate, selling off forÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
January 29, 2018
McClatchy purchased Knight Ridder in 2006. Readers will be able to get the latest news from the Keys for free at FlKeysNews.com, or with a digital subscription to the Miami Herald or el Nuevo Herald. In print, the Miami Herald Neighbors South Miami-Dade section will feature expanded coverage of KeysÃÂ ...
The Telegraph (blog)
January 27, 2018
Knight-Ridder is no more, bought out by McClatchy. The Telegraph building where I started my career with the company now sits dormant, but the ghosts of Ron Woodgeard, Ed Corson, Phil Dodson, R.L. Day, John Kreuger and Rick Thomas, are probably still running around inside debating the news of theÃÂ ...
CPJ Press Freedom Online (blog)
January 9, 2018
It was the police line-up from hell. Forget all those "Law and Order" scenes where a victim stands anonymously behind a one-way mirror. Sri Lankan journalist Namal Perera had to stand eyeball-to-eyeball with 42 army intelligence officers in April, each of whom, Perera explained to me while demonstratingÃÂ ...
The American Prospect
December 27, 2017
In 2004, the two largest media companies were publicly traded legacy chains, Gannett and Knight Ridder. By 2014, the top two were private equity firms, Fortress/GateHouse and Digital First Media (DFM). The big chains like Gannett, McClatchy, and Cowles got overextended and made some bad businessÃÂ ...
Crain's Detroit Business
December 27, 2017
based Knight Ridder Inc. and sold The Detroit News for $25 million in stock to Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc. The Detroit News has a more complex ownership structure, but it ultimately is owned by Alden Global Capital, founded in 2007 by so-called vulture investor Randall Smith. He does not giveÃÂ ...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
December 21, 2017
Tucker helped design portions of PLATO, the first computer-assisted instruction system, and went on to found the technology company HAL Communications Corp. and later became CEO and president of Knight-Ridder Financial. Sections (2):News, Local. Topics (2):Education, University of IllinoisÃÂ ...
Hollywood Reporter
December 18, 2017
The reporting team at Knight Ridder Newspapers has been called "the only ones who got it right" about Saddam Hussein's non-existent weapons of mass destruction that sparked the 2003 Iraq war. Based on a true story, Rob Reiner's Shock and Awe gives much-deserved credit to their far-sighted (ifÃÂ ...
Newspapers and Technology
December 31, 1999
Remember Knight-Ridder? Pulitzer? Scripps? Freedom? Donrey? Copley? Lindsay-Schwab? Liberty Group Publishing? Journal Communications? Howard Communications? Media General? Others? Many readers of this column likely worked for one of the above-named, now-gone newspaper companiesÃÂ ...
AberdeenNews.com
November 14, 2017
When Jim Zeigler, the state auditor of Alabama, invoked the Bible to defend Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore against allegations that ...
Raiders.com
November 11, 2017
9, Glen Macnow of Knight-Ridder Newspapers wrote: The NFL players union set a Sept. 22 strike deadline Tuesday, as players and owners ...
Miami Herald
October 30, 2017
... at the Miami Herald in 1959 by John S. Knight, past publisher of the Miami Herald, founder and editor emeritus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, ...
chatsworthtimes
October 25, 2017
After leaving the AJC upon graduation, Hamby worked as an editor for Knight-Ridder Newspapers as part of the "25/43 Project," an effort to ...
HBCU Digest
December 31, 1999
Why would foundations like Knight-Ridder, McClatchy, Poynter and others find Lincoln's journalism program worthy of funding, when one of its ...
The Atlanta Voice
December 31, 1999
Galloway, a Bronze Star for Valor awardee who recently retired as the senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers, ...
CapitalGazette.com
December 31, 1999
A view of rising Earth above the lunar horizon from the Apollo 8 spacecraft in December 1968. (NASA / Knight-Ridder Tribune). Privacy Policy.
Irish Tech News
September 15, 2017
... Fox is the author of How to Become CEO which was on the NY Times, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Knight-Ridder, and Amazon.com best seller lists.
Fresno Bee
September 14, 2017
Poulos also noted that “at the time of the Knight Ridder transaction, Jim McClatchy was still alive and the sole income beneficiary” (of the trust)ÃÂ ...
Elk Grove News (registration) (blog)
September 8, 2017
McClatchy's debt ballooned following the 2006 acquisition of rival media conglomerate Knight Ridder for approximately $4 billion in stock andÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
September 8, 2017
Assembled from the contact list of Alvah Chapman, then the former president of the Miami Herald and former CEO of Knight Ridder, the group'sÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
September 7, 2017
... company and continued efforts to pay down debt associated with its 2006 takeover of newspaper chain Knight Ridder Inc. for $4.4 billion.
Business Observer
August 22, 2017
She previously held advertising and marketing management positions with Knight Ridder Broadcasting, now The McClatchy Co., the SarasotaÃÂ ...
Daily Astorian
August 22, 2017
At the Washington Bureau for Knight Ridder and then McClatchy newspapers, he worked with journalists covering the White House, CongressÃÂ ...
Island Packet
August 16, 2017
... Bruce Sherman, who a decade ago played a pivotal role in the sale of the Miami Herald, then owned by Knight-Ridder, to McClatchy.
Miami New Times
August 14, 2017
Mr. Sherman's clients own large chunks of nine newspaper companies, including 19 percent of Knight Ridder, 15 percent of The New YorkÃÂ ...
Naples Daily News
August 11, 2017
In 2005, Sherman made headlines and attracted national attention when he pushed for a sale of Knight Ridder, which owned the Miami Herald,ÃÂ ...
AberdeenNews.com
August 10, 2017
Here's an international crisis you can, unusually, put on your calendar ahead of time: In October, President Trump wants to declare Iran inÃÂ ...
The News-Press
August 4, 2017
The old Knight Ridder corporation used to own the Herald and this paper, and we often ran insightful work by Silva, whose byline adorns someÃÂ ...
Hour Detroit Magazine
August 1, 2017
A strike shut down the Free Press just as it was to unveil before news celebrities and its Knight Ridder Inc., executives the coverage plans forÃÂ ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
July 21, 2017
... former Knight Ridder newspapers journalist and television reporter Jackie Ryan, and Al Haggerty, whose career included work as a reporterÃÂ ...
Benitolink: San Benito County News
December 31, 1999
The Knight Foundation, originally started by John S. and James L. Knight, of Knight-Ridder newspapers, has been instrumental in rebuildingÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
Nia Long and Larenz Tate bonded over poetry in the classic "Love Jones." Spoken word date, anyone? (MICHAEL WEINSTEIN / Knight RidderÃÂ ...
Adweek
December 31, 1999
... which it purchased it from McClatchy, which purchased it for a very brief amount of time from Knight-Ridder, which had purchased it in 1980.
South Florida Business Journal
December 31, 1999
In 2005, Private Capital Management was the largest shareholder of Knight Ridder, then the second largest newspaper chain in the countryÃÂ ...
The Signal
December 31, 1999
... and controversy arose over “the basis for its claim of dedication to 'preserving our environment,'” according to Tribune writer Knight-Ridder.
The Hill
December 31, 1999
A USA Today/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study after the election concluded in May 2001 that Bush would have won a hand count of Florida'sÃÂ ...
Huffington Post UK
March 13, 2017
Another clear example is shown with an opinion poll carried out by Knight Ridder. When asking Americans how many of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi, 44% believed that some to most were Iraqi.
Spartanburg Herald Journal
March 12, 2017
Priddy worked with the Knight-Ridder company to develop PressLink into a major online news service in the 1990s. He coordinated the very first worldwide online distribution of news images (from the 1991 Super Bowl).
AberdeenNews.com
March 9, 2017
A man climbs through the window of a sleeping girl. She stirs awake and starts to scream, but he punches her with a closed fist. Brandishing a gun, he vows to kill her parents, asleep in the next room, if she makes another sound.
Miami Herald
March 7, 2017
Back when I worked at 1 Herald Plaza the paper made a lot of money for Knight Newspapers, later Knight-Ridder. Today profits are down along with staff.
WBEZ
March 7, 2017
"It is going to come in handy during those background briefings," says Knight Ridder's Ron Hutcheson, president of the White House Correspondents' Association, who wrote Hanks: "I can't promise favorable coverage if you ever run for president, but youÃÂ ...
San Diego Free Press
March 7, 2017
The Knight Foundation, a group founded by John S. and James L. Knight of the old Knight Ridder newspaper chain, released a report with a complicated message on how teens and young adults get their news and how much they believe of what they see orÃÂ ...
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