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January 12, 2012
Jerry Grilly to retire as president and CEO of the Denver Post
Jerry Grilly, the president and CEO of the Denver Post, is retiring -- and not for the first time. Grilly had been lured back to the Post three years ago, shortly after the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, which ended the joint operating agreement that yoked the two papers. It's a different worl ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
John Paton named MediaNews Group CEO: What's it mean to MNG's pay-wall experiment?
John Paton.In late August, we noted that the search for a new MediaNews Group CEO to succeed Dean Singleton had stretched out for seven months, with no end in sight. At last, the situation has changed. John Paton, a director of the Journal Register Company, has been named the firm's CEO as p ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
MediaNews Group experiments with digital pay walls -- but not yet in Colorado
Dean Singleton.In an interview earlier this year, MediaNews Group executive chairman Dean Singleton talked about experimenting with pay walls at his various newspaper properties. These efforts are now about to get a public try-out at 23 MNG properties -- although none in the company's home st ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
MediaNews Group-Freedom talks break down, but don't be shocked by a comeback
Dean Singleton.For months, newspaper insiders have been abuzz about Denver Post parent company MediaNews Group potentially acquiring Freedom Communications, owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette and the Orange County Register -- two properties that synergize nicely with MediaNews strongholds ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Dean Singleton, Denver Post publisher, shoots down rumors of national copy-editing center
MediaNews GroupIn an interview last month about stepping down as CEO of MediaNews Group, Dean Singleton talked geographical expansion and consolidation. These words echoed after MediaNews bought the Longmont Times-Call's parent company days later -- and fears of job losses were heightened by ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
Rocky Mountain Right website goes on hiatus due to fear of being sued by Denver Post
RMR logo.Visitors to Rocky Mountain Right's website can usually find conservative news and commentary -- but not right now. The home page is currently emblazoned with the phrase "Access Denied." That's because site overseer Antony Surace has temporarily blocked users to the page due to concer ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
MediaNews Group subsidiary buys Lehman Communications, Longmont Times-Call
Dean Singleton.In an interview earlier this week about stepping down as CEO of MediaNews Group, Dean Singleton said his new position as the company's executive chairman would allow him to focus on "opportunities for expansion, which I have always enjoyed doing." And how: Today, Singleton anno ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
Miles Moffeit, award-winning Denver Post reporter heading to Dallas, told to leave paper after publication of Westword blog
Miles Moffeit left the Denver Post a little earlier than he'd anticipated.Update, 11:03 a.m.: Moments ago, Denver Post editor Greg Moore responded to an interview request for this blog, which was originally published at 10:46 a.m. His comments have been incorporated below. Last Friday aftern ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
MediaNews Group: Former Comcast veep Mark Winkler exiting in major marketing shakeup
Dean Singleton ordered some alterations.Last week, Denver-based MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post and dozens of other newspapers around the country, officially emerged from bankruptcy -- and it didn't take long for boss Dean Singleton to make significant changes in the organization. ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Dean Singleton and MediaNews Group: Bankrupt no more
Dean Singleton's indebtedness looks a lot less onerous this week.The Saturday Denver Post blurb about Affiliated Media couldn't entirely avoid the word "bankruptcy," as the broadsheet's writers have endeavored to do since January. After all, the judge who approved the prepackaged plan assembl ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
MediaNews Group reportedly worried its phones will be shut off
Dean Singleton's lawyers have been busy lately.In its reporting about the impending bankruptcy filing by Affiliated Media, the holding company of MediaNews Group, its owner, the Denver Post left the B-word out of the headline -- and its published version of an Associated Press story about the ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
MediaNews Group bankruptcy story reads differently in Denver -- which doesn't run info about Dean Singleton's salary
Dean Singleton: Still making a pretty penny.A blog published last week noted that the Denver Post had managed to report about an impending bankruptcy filing by the holding company of its parent firm, MediaNews Group, without using the word "bankruptcy" in the headline -- a neat example of spi ... More >>
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January 20, 2010
Denver Blogs: Are the Broncos already preparing for life without Brandon Marshall?
"How can you miss me when I'm still here?"Local blogging that will open your eyes. Mile High Report's John Bena shares Mel Kiper's prediction about the Broncos' first-round draft pick this year: Dez Bryant, a big-play receiver from Oklahoma State -- presumably a replacement for Brandon Marsh ... More >>
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January 18, 2010
MediaNews bankruptcy, Dean Singleton and Denver Post spin
Dean Singleton doesn't like the B-word.Here are some sample headlines from other publications around the nation about the latest development involving MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post and dozens of other newspapers around the country: UPI: "U.S. Newspaper Group to File Bankruptcy." ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
A letter to Dean Singleton from a former employee who thinks his paywall ideas are crazy
Dean Singleton wants to charge for delivery on the Internet, too.As the newspaper industry continues to struggle, more and more attention is being paid to the paywall strategy being promoted MediaNews Group boss (and Denver Post publisher) Dean Singleton. He plans to start charging readers fo ... More >>
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August 28, 2009
Post-News joint operating agreement ends not with a bang, but with a press release
Dean Singleton.The death of the joint-operating agreement that was supposed to sustain a business partnership between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News for a half-century but didn't survive for even one decade can't help seeming anticlimactic. After all, the Rocky's been gone for si ... More >>
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July 1, 2009
A closer look at MediaNews Group's debt
MediaNews Group chairman Dean Singleton. When the Rocky Mountain News was put up for sale in December (a move that prefigured its February closure), employees clinging to hopes of a last minute reversal of fortune repeatedly pointed to the debts burdening MediaNews Group, owner of the Rocky's rival ... More >>
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July 1, 2009
MediaNews Group disputes article hinting at possible bankruptcy filing
A blog earlier today detailed a Debtwire article about MediaNews Group, a Denver-based firm that owns dozens of newspapers around the country, including the Denver Post. That piece included information about a series of outstanding loans, as well as the following passage: "MediaNews has scheduled ... More >>
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May 28, 2009
John Temple: We didn't wish death upon Dean Singleton
John Temple. It didn't take former Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple long to react to a startling assertion in 5280's intriguing account of the Rocky's death -- that execs at E.W. Scripps, the tabloid's owner, thought the paper might survive if MediaNews Group CEO and ... More >>
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May 28, 2009
Latest MediaNews Group moneymaking scheme: printing newsletters in people's homes
Even as journalists debate about whether or not E.W. Scripps executives pinned their hopes for the Rocky Mountain News' survival on Denver Post owner Dean Singleton's death, MediaNews Group, Singleton's company, is moving ahead with an unusual effort to monetize its content. As detailed in "MediaN ... More >>
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May 12, 2009
MediaNews Group memo says more content on websites will be pay-to-play
Photo by J. KnightDean Singleton. A short time ago, Jim Romenesko's journalism-business page on the Poynter Online site posted a recent memo issued under the signature of MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton and his right-hand man, Jody Lodovic, concerning a new approach to ... More >>
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March 12, 2009
Negotiations still ongoing between E.W. Scripps, MediaNews Group over Rocky Mountain News
"Texas Investor Brian Ferguson Plans Bid for Rocky Mountain News Assets," a just-published blog, notes that the aforementioned Ferguson has a proposal ready to go as soon as bidding starts for the Denver Publishing Company; the firm controls the intellectual property of the Rocky, which stopped pu ... More >>
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March 10, 2009
What? Not all comments posted to blogs are accurate?
The old adage about not believing everything you read goes double for comments placed on blogs. Today's example: An item attributed to "Buster," which popped up on a piece entitled, "Denver Post Chairman and MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton Responds to This Week's Message Column." It reads: Eve ... More >>
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March 6, 2009
Former Rocky Mountain News business writer David Milstead strikes back against the haters, including Dean Singleton
David Milstead. The Wednesday blog "Q&A with David Milstead About the Death of the Rocky Mountain News and the Future of the Denver Post" has prompted some extremely lively (and often nasty) commentary, much of it directed at the aforementioned Mr. Milstead, a former Rocky business writer I feel ha ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
Harry Whipple out as head of Denver Newspaper Agency
Harry Whipple. The only surprise in yesterday afternoon's announcement that Harry Whipple would no longer be in charge of the Denver Newspaper Agency was the identity of his successor: former Denver Post publisher Gerald Grilly, who's coming out of retirement to take the gig. Indeed, the February 2 ... More >>
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March 4, 2009
Q&A with David Milstead about the death of the Rocky Mountain News and the future of the Denver Post
David Milstead. The most dogged and enterprising journalist to write about the Rocky Mountain News' closure saga came from the Rocky's own newsroom. Business columnist and reporter David Milstead broke story after story. For example, he unearthed a confidential letter from executives at E.W. Scripp ... More >>
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February 26, 2009
Updated: Dean Singleton in the catbird seat
Dean Singleton. About an hour ago, I was a guest on the KHOW radio show hosted by Peter Boyles -- who, much to my chagrin, didn't mention vaginas even once -- and he said two sources had told him that executives from the E.W. Scripps company, owner of the Rocky Mountain News, are in town. If that's ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
How the troubles at the San Francisco Chronicle echo in Denver
The San Francisco Chronicle, the largest daily newspaper in the Bay Area, is reportedly in such shabby fiscal shape that its owner, the Hearst Corp., says it may have to close the venerable pub within weeks if expenses can't be brought under control. In the event of such a shut-down, San Francisco ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
MediaNews Group tops Newsosaur's Default-O-Matic roster
Veteran journalist and executive Alan D. Mutter's Reflections of a Newsosaur blog has become a popular destination for media members and observers hoping to get a better handle on the troubles being experienced by the industry. He's been a thoughtful and credible chronicler of the business as a wh ... More >>
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January 29, 2009
Could MediaNews Group furlough program come to the Denver Post?
Even as a Denver Post statement branded a Rocky Mountain News story about troubles at the broadsheet inaccurate, another memo associated with MediaNews Group, the Post's owner, was turning heads on the left coast. The document, first published at Jim Romenesko's Poynter Online address, revealed th ... More >>
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January 20, 2009
Rocky Mountain News union rep on contract talks, coverage of sale offer
Today, the Rocky Mountain News reported that various unions had agreed to open contract talks for the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency early, as had been requested by Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group, which owns the Post and is linked to the Rocky by a joint-operating agreement. Include ... More >>
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January 8, 2009
Denver Newspaper Agency's deadline day could get bloody
A week from tomorrow, January 16, is the day by which MediaNews Group chieftain Dean Singleton and execs at the Denver Newspaper Agency say they need to secure $18 million in labor savings prior to renegotiating $130 million in debt. "If that fails," says a letter penned by DNA senior human resour ... More >>
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January 8, 2009
Department of Justice trying to preserve at least one newspaper JOA
The blog "Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up" deals in part with a piece by Jason Salzman, who feels the Denver dailies haven't truly measured the chances that the Justice Department might choose to prevent the dissolution of a joint-operating agreement that links the Roc ... More >>
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January 7, 2009
Dean Singleton to be honored with 2009 Community Cultural Enrichment Award
MediaNews Group vice chairman and chief executive officer/Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton faces the same kind of bleak economic outlook as any newspaper magnate, albeit with a number of intriguing twists -- among them the potential closure of the Rocky Mountain News, the Post's joint-operatin ... More >>
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December 12, 2008
The Moody's downgrading of MediaNews Group: What's it mean for Denver newspapering?
As if the Denver newspaper scene couldn't get any more confusing... Yesterday, word surfaced that Moody's Investors Services downgraded the credit rating of Denver-based MediaNews Group, declaring that the Dean Singleton-run newspaper chain is at significant risk of default. Indeed, the firm, who ... More >>
News
December 11, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News is going down
As if the Denver newspaper scene couldn't get any more confusing... Yesterday, word surfaced that Moody's Investors Services downgraded the credit rating of Denver-based MediaNews Group, declaring that the Dean Singleton-run newspaper chain is at significant risk of default. Indeed, the firm, who ... More >>
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December 10, 2008
MediaNews Group's Dean Singleton about outsourcing to India
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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November 7, 2008
The Boulder Daily Camera's building goes on the block
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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October 2, 2008
Chairman of Denver Post ownership group writes letter criticizing McCain
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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August 11, 2008
MediaNews Group Changes Its Tune With Connecticut Sale
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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July 8, 2008
Dean Singleton Fights Back Against Bad MediaNews Press
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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August 10, 2007
Dean Singleton Wins in Salt Lake City
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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February 5, 2007
More Messages: Ad It Up
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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October 30, 2006
More Messages: Back to the ER
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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May 19, 2006
More Messages: Barking and Biting
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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April 28, 2006
More Messages: The Latest from the Dean of Newspapers
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we're also offering a series of ou ... More >>
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October 10, 2002
Trouble by the Bay
Labor strife looms in a western outpost of Dean Singleton's media empire.
News
August 2, 2001
Press for Success
At fifty, William Dean Singleton has dozens of newspapers and all the money he needs. But what about respect?
News
December 14, 2000
Blood Feud
The Post's Dean Singleton joins a newspaper marriage even more strained than Denver's.
News
June 8, 2000
Look for the Union Label
JOAs can be bad news for newspaper employees.
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