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Friday, August 8, 2008

08/08/08 Greenwich Citizen News Links - The Greenwich Citizen And It's Dog Of A News Website Are Sold Again


Headlines:

Free Greenwich Kitty Box Liner Gets New Owner

Will Editor Don Harrison Be Shown The Door, Because Of How Poor Job That The Citizen Does Of Covering Greenwich?


Is The Greenwich Citizen Webmaster Dusting Off His Resume Today?


Quotes:

"Combined with our existing Connecticut news properties, we see unique potential to provide readers and advertisers with both high-quality and innovative news products," George B. Irish, president of Hearst Newspapers said. "These are valuable markets for local media and we look forward to maximizing the opportunities among the properties using the Internet, packaged advertising sales, niche products and direct mail."

The Story:

Hearst Corp. has purchased the Connecticut Post and seven weekly newspapers from MediaNews Group Inc....

...The weeklies that Hearst acquired are the Darien News-Review, Greenwich Citizen, Fairfield Citizen-News, New Canaan News-Review, New Milford Spectrum, Norwalk Citizen-News and Westport News....

Please Read The Full Greenwich Citizen Article

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Denver Post owner sells Connecticut papers

Bizjournals.com

MediaNews Group, owner of The Denver Post, has sold a daily newspaper and several weeklies it owns in Connecticut in a deal that the Denver-based newspaper chain says will help it “manage its balance sheet” at a time when the newspaper industry is struggling.

The Bridgeport, Conn.-based Connecticut Post and seven weekly papers in that state were sold to New York-based Hearst Corp., a national media company that owns a minority share of privately held MediaNews, the two companies announced in a statement Friday.

Hearst also will assume management of three other dailies it already owns, in Stamford, Greenwich and Danbury, Conn., that were previously run by MediaNews.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But the Associated Press, citing “a person with direct knowledge of the deal,” reported the purchase price was $155 million — less than the $205 million that MediaNews reportedly paid to buy the Connecticut Post in 2000.....

More Greenwich Citizen News Links:

The ante has risen to a half million dollars emergency infusion to get Hamilton Avenue School ready by Aug.

Greenwich Teen's Summer 'Service' Project: Computers for Uganda

A little drum with a snakeskin head, the first tastes of raw sugarcane and a tale about a pregnant goat are among the summer memories of Greenwich's Bea Dizon, 17.

A 73-year-old retired teacher, Rosa Packard, has returned to her Greenwich home after disappearing last Wednesday and being located in Nanuet, N.

Porricelli's Heavyweight Event

Gerry Cooney knows all about heavyweight events. On June 11, 1982, Cooney fought reigning world champion Larry Holmes for the heavyweight title in one of the most viewed boxing events in history.

Could some Nutmeggers freeze this winter because they're unable to pay for heat? It's only Aug. 8, the dog days of summer, but that's a scenario that concerns a wide range of legislators.

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