It was another dismal week for the daily newspaper industry. Here in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune could only muster 6 pages of employment classifieds on Sunday for thye 2nd week in a row (actually it was about 4 with 2 pages of filler). At that level, the paper has got to be inching ever closer [...]
The pace of news about the decimation of the daily newspaper industry is accelerating, and the picture is getting uglier and uglier every week. Among the recent stories, McClatchy is freezing wages, Gannett is reducing headcount by 1,000, and JCPenney and Kohl’s both announced plans to drastically cut back their newspaper circular advertising. Cox Enterprises [...]
Avista Capital Partners, owners of the Star Tribune, announced this morning that they did not make their quarterly interest payment on the $96 million in junior debt that accompanied the roughly $330 million in senior debt used to finance the $530 million purchase of the daily newspaper. While CEO Chris Harte reported that the company [...]