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Posts Tagged ‘Peoria Journal Star’

Media: Is GateHouse getting ripped off?

Blogs are constantly being accused of getting all their content from mainstream media. Unless the blogger is doing original reporting, there’s some truth to that. Pundit-style bloggers do get most of their information from media reports. Some of ‘em even cut and paste parts of the articles they use as source material. I’m one of [...]

November 12, 2008 in On the Media
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Media: GateHouse hits an all-time low (UPDATED)

Via the Turner Report:
GateHouse Media stock fell to an all-time low of 39 cents per share at the close of trading today [Tuesday]. The previous low was 40 cents.
The price was down 19 cents or 32.76 percent from Monday.
I’m sure much of this is due to the all-around crappy condition of the stock market these [...]

September 17, 2008 in On the Media
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Media: GateHouse sells off two newspapers

Via Editor & Publisher: The employee-owned Omaha World-Herald Co. bought two daily newspapers from GateHouse Media: The Grand Island Independent (20,500 circulation) and the York News-Times (4,700). GateHouse has owned the newspapers only since last fall when it bought 14 dailies from Morris Communication Co.
GateHouse owns the Peoria Journal Star, the Pekin Daily Times, the [...]

August 28, 2008 in On the Media
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Media: Local philanthropist may be PJS’s best hope if GateHouse tanks, analyst says

NOTE: GateHouse Media, the parent company for the Peoria Journal Star, TimesNewspapers and other dailies and weeklies in Illinois and other parts of the country, today saw the price of its stock drop to 56 cents a share before closing at 72 cents. The same stock once sold for more than $20 a share. The [...]

July 29, 2008 in Uncategorized
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