Caitlin Johnston
Dec. 2, 2012
7:00 am
Aaron Kushner's 2100 Trust investment group is
selling The Colorado Springs Gazette just four months after buying the paper.
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The company, led by former greeting-card entrepreneur Kushner, acquired the Gazette and six other papers when it
bought Freedom Communications in July.
But the sale to billionaire Philip Anschutz's Clarity Media Group isn't a sign that Kushner is losing interest in newspapers.
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Jeff Sonderman
June 14, 2012
12:52 pm
The Colorado Gazette reporter was told to remove a link on his Facebook wall to a news article about the parent company’s sale. He refused, saying it was relevant news, factual and did not express a personal opinion.
Tryon had a meeting scheduled today on the matter and thought he might even get fired. Now he tweets that he's been placed on "administrative leave" pending an investigation.
He tells the Colorado Springs Independent that he was placed on leave
after he said he planned to bring his lawyer to an HR meeting.
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Jim Romenesko
June 15, 2011
8:15 am
Wall Street Journal |
Colorado Springs Gazette
Buyout discussions broke down recently amid disagreements over price, report Russell Adams and Mike Spector. Freedom -- publisher of the Orange County Register and other papers --
put its properties, including TV stations, on the block late last year. MediaNews, Tribune, and the San Diego Union-Tribune owner
were considered leading contenders to buy Freedom properties. The Journal reports today:
Freedom and MediaNews had been in advanced discussions for months on a tie-up that would bolster the Denver Post owner's standing as the second-largest U.S. newspaper conglomerate behind USA Today publisher Gannett Co. in terms of total circulation.
Freedom has given suitors several options for bidding on the chain. Possible buyers can make offers for the entire company, or they can separately bid on Freedom's eight television stations, its more than 100 daily and weekly newspapers or the flagship Register alone.
Private-equity firm Platinum Equity and newspaper publisher Tribune Co. could have strategic interest in the Register, said people familiar with the sales process. Platinum owns the San Diego Union-Tribune and Tribune owns the Los Angeles Times, papers both near the Register's market. But such tie-ups could draw regulators' attention given the overlapping markets.
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Jeff Sonderman
June 2, 2011
10:17 am
While some newspapers are tiptoeing into iPad apps with replica editions of their print products, The Orange County Register has developed something quite different: a curated editorial product published late in the day.
The Register’s approach to the iPad
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Jim Romenesko
Mar. 10, 2011
9:41 am
OCWeekly.com
The auction is today. Bidders will be allowed to break off Freedom's newspapers from its other media holdings, such as TV stations,
reports the Wall Street Journal. Freedom's 100-plus papers, including the Orange County Register, could fetch up to $350 million, while its eight TV stations are expected to go for as much as $400 million.
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Jim Romenesko
Feb. 15, 2011
1:54 pm
Romenesko Misc.
The Orange County Register
parent says it "encourages its associates to participate in these [social] media as a means of generating interest in the Company’s products and services and creating business opportunities," but "the Company must ensure that use of these communications maintains its brand identity, integrity and reputation while minimizing actual or potential legal risks, whether used internally or externally." All employees must sign the policy. (It's reprinted after the jump.)
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