Subject: William Dean Singleton

• More Messages: Back to the ER

  October 30, 2006

• More Messages: Barking and Biting

  May 19, 2006

• Dean Singleton Wins in Salt Lake City

  August 10, 2007

• Dean Singleton on Sinking Circulation at the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News

  November 8, 2007

• Dean Singleton and the Obama/Osama Gaffe

  April 15, 2008

• Dean Singleton to the Newspaper Industry: Stop Your Whining

  June 10, 2008

• MediaNews Group Changes Its Tune With Connecticut Sale

  August 11, 2008

• Dean Singleton's cow-ardice

  August 22, 2008

• Dean Singleton's cow-ardice

  August 22, 2008

• Chairman of Denver Post ownership group writes letter criticizing McCain

  October 2, 2008

• The Message

  Checks and Balances

  September 16, 2004

• The Rocky Mountain News' John Temple on the alleged closure meeting

  The current Westword includes a feature article about the Rocky Mountain News, which was recently put up for sale, as well as a sidebar about the marquee Rocky talent most likely to leap to the Denver Post in the event of a closure and a look into the mysteries of the joint-operating agreement that connects the Rocky and the Post. To supplement that coverage, we're offering a series of outtakes and supplementary material that's just as interesting as the stuff that made the final cut. First u

  December 10, 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, whose holdings include the Denver Post, was said to be in potentially worse shape than the Tribune Co., which recently filed for bankruptcy. Unfortunately, confirming this condition is difficult, since

  December 12, 2008

• Denver Newspaper Guild almost mum on renegotiating Denver Post and Denver Newspaper Agency contract

  Another new development in the crazy world of Denver newspapers: Shortly after news broke that Moody's Investor Services had downgraded the credit rating of MediaNews Group, the owner of the Denver Post, MediaNews head Dean Singleton asked unions to open negotiations on new labor contracts as early as this week, saying he needs to cut costs by $20 million. What is the Denver Newspaper Guild saying about this request? As little as possible right now. When contacted this morning, DNG spokesman

  December 15, 2008

• Help the Denver Post by paying extra for Obama's Mile High Moment

  As you've probably heard, MediaNews Group head and de facto Denver Post owner Dean Singleton is hoping to save $20 million in wages by tinkering with a union agreement not due to expire until March 2010. At least you did if you read our December 15 blog "Denver Newspaper Guild Almost Mum on Renegotiating Denver Post and Denver Newspaper Agency Contract" or a piece in the Rocky Mountain News: To date, I've found nothing on the Post's website on this topic. In the meantime, there's a way you, th

  December 16, 2008

• 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-operating-agreement partner in Denver. But at least he knows he'll have a happy day on May 14. That's when the Mizel Museum honors him as the recipient of the 2009 Community Cultural Enrichment Award winner a

  January 7, 2009

• The latest from the Rocky Mountain News grapevine about the paper's future

  The silence has been deafening in regard to the possible sale of the Rocky Mountain News -- at least officially. The last article in the Rocky itself about potential buyers appeared way back on December 24; that piece noted that a "deal book" of financial and demographic information had been sent to an undisclosed number of firms expressing at least some level of interest in the property. And while IWantMyRocky.com, a site started by staffers as a way of generating support for the tabloid, has

  January 14, 2009

• Best Insult of the Rocky Mountain News in the Denver Post

  March 29, 2001

• 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. Included in the piece, by reporter Jeff Smith, are quotes from Melissa Pomponio, a presentation editor who is also the Denver Newspaper Guild unit chair for the Rocky newsroom. She believes that by agreeing

  January 20, 2009

• Dean Singleton's giant balls

  This morning, both Denver dailies feature articles spurred by a Denver Post memo sent out in response to "Scripps Says Post Violates JOA," a January 28 Rocky Mountain News report based on a leaked letter reportedly penned by two executives at E.W. Scripps, the Rocky's owner. The latter piece, by staffer David Milstead, asserts that the Post borrowed $13 million from the Denver Newspaper Agency, the operation that handles business matters for both papers, in order to fund its newsroom -- an act

  January 29, 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 true (and I haven't been able to independently verify the information at this writing), a decision about the fate of the Rocky, which was put up for sale in December, could be very near. In the meant

  February 26, 2009

• Highlights from the goodbye-to-the-Rocky Mountain News press conference

  J. KnightE.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne addresses the media after announcing the Rocky would close after Friday's issue. Reporter Lynn Bartels's colleagues at the Rocky Mountain News warned her not to try exiting the Denver Newspaper Agency building through the main lobby. After all, the place was swarming with reporters gathered to attend an upcoming press conference at which E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne -- and, as it turned out, quite a few other executive types -- was going to explain why his

  February 26, 2009

• Will advertising rates for the Denver Post be going up?

  Dean Singleton delivers. During yesterday's press conference announcing the closing of the Rocky Mountain News, MediaNews Group boss Dean Singleton, whose firm owns the Denver Post, declared that the ad rates at his publication are "way below" the national average, but "they'll just have to stay that way" for now, due to the current economic climate. This remark suggested that rates wouldn't rise, and a letter from the Denver Newspaper Agency to advertisers confirms it -- sort of. Charges won't

  February 27, 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. Scripps, the Rocky's former owner, revealing that the Denver Post borrowed $13 million from the Denver Newspaper Agency to fund its newsroom -- but the DNA couldn't repeat this feat because banks wouldn't l

  March 4, 2009

• Denver Post chairman and MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton responds to this week's Message column

  Dean Singleton. Say what you will about Denver Post chairman and MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton (and plenty of his critics have, and will continue to do so): He's among the most accessible and engaged of all media magnates -- and he's not afraid to push back when he feels he's been misinterpreted in some way. Today's example -- a long note from Singleton in response to "After the Rocky Taps Out, the Post Acts Like it Won By a Knockout," this week's Message column, which chronicles the clos

  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 has done consistently outstanding work. Others disagree, including Denver Post chairman Dean Singleton, whose letter about my piece on the Rocky's demise anad the new-look Post -- accessible in the just

  March 6, 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: Every time Mikey writes about the Rocky, he amazingly neglects to disclose an elephant-sized conflict of interest. It's only natural that when more than half of one's household income comes from or came

  March 10, 2009

• Denver Post employees agree to salary, benefit cuts

  Photo by J. KnightDean Singleton at the February 26 press conference announcing the impending closure of the Rocky Mountain News. Yesterday, union-represented employees of the Denver Post voted to accept a package that includes "wage cuts ranging from 6 percent to 9 percent, depending on salary; higher health-insurance costs; seven days per year of unpaid furloughs; and a suspension of employer contributions to 401(k) retirement accounts," according to an article penned by the Post's Steve Raa

  March 11, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 11/15/2007

  November 15, 2007

• After the Rocky taps out, the Post acts like it won by a knockout

  March 5, 2009

• The Rocky Mountain News is going down

  December 11, 2008

• Changing of the Guard

  The arrival of a new editor shakes things up at the Denver Post.

  May 9, 2002

• The Post Takes Opinions Above the Fold

  November 8, 2007

• Cuts Redux

  The Post joins the buyout trend as its owner admits the newspaper business is facing tougher times than he expected.

  May 3, 2007

• The Message

  Skin City

  August 11, 2005

• The Message

  Brave New World

  June 12, 2003

• Green-Light Specials

  If the FCC loosens its rules, will media giants go on a radio-and-TV shopping spree? Absolutely.

  January 23, 2003

• Trouble by the Bay

  Labor strife looms in a western outpost of Dean Singleton's media empire.

  October 10, 2002

• Pack Mentality

  A media column about secondhand smoke stirs up a cloud of controversy.

  July 25, 2002

• Woody Goes Limp

  Post columnist Woody Paige's big shtick shrinks in chilly Utah.

  February 21, 2002

• Press for Success

  At fifty, William Dean Singleton has dozens of newspapers and all the money he needs. But what about respect?

  August 2, 2001

• OFF LIMITS

  November 15, 1995

• PAPER CUTS

  July 27, 1994

• 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 the web. "We will begin to move away from putting all of our newspaper content online for free," Singleton and Lodovic write. "Instead, we will explore a variety of premium offerings that apply real v

  May 12, 2009

• Why Dean Singleton's critics should applaud his Mizel Museum award last night

  Dean Singleton. Dean Singleton haters, of which there are many, likely gagged on their Cocoa Puffs this morning while reading "Post Owner Gets Honors, Ribbing," a laudatory account of last night's Mizel Museum dinner, during which the MediaNews Group CEO and Post publisher was given the organization's Community Cultural Enrichment award. But even those who accuse him of every journalistic crime on the books should feel at least some satisfaction at the willingness of those in power to lick his

  May 15, 2009

• Is the Denver Post's circulation really holding steady?

  In a Monday Q&A, Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews Group and de facto owner of the Denver Post, insisted that the Post is retaining 95 percent of former Rocky Mountain News subscribers -- and he added that the paper isn't suffering the 5-15 percent declines striking most other major metro dailies these days. But these assertions don't jibe with what I've been seeing in my neighborhood: Ken-Caryl Ranch, in unincorporated Jefferson County.

  May 20, 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 "MediaNews to Begin Customized Printing in Denver Homes Next Week," a Bill Mitchell column available at the Poynter Online site, the firm "will print personalized newsletters in consumers' homes for the firs

  May 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 six months now, as John Temple, the tabloid's former editor, publisher and president, noted on his blog in an often-depressing rundown of comments from former staffers. Since then, the Post has moved fo

  August 28, 2009

• MediaNews unlikely to go after Freedom Communications

  Dean Singleton.​Had Freedom Communications, owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette, filed for bankruptcy during better economic times, journalism-business observers would have immediately begun speculating about the odds that it might be purchased by MediaNews Group, headed by Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton. After all, Singleton had taken a run at Freedom back in 2003, and after being rejected, the Orange County Business Journal says he dismissed members of the Hoiles family, which ow

  September 10, 2009

• Post's soldier story made for the web

  A Craig F. Walker photo of soldier Ian Fisher, segmented for use as a navigation tool on the Post's website.​ Unlike most Denver TV stations, the Denver Post leads its offerings today with a report inspired by 9-11. Blessedly, though, it's not another roundup of anecdotes from people recalling where they were or what they were doing eight years ago today. Instead, the paper offers the first segment in a three-part series about Ian Fisher, a Bear Creek High School grad who the paper has bee

  September 11, 2009