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More to be revealed.

The fate of my ex-employer is semi-known — McClatchy gets Knight Rid­der, plans to imme­di­ately sell 12 papers, includ­ing Fort Wayne. Beyond that, I’m as clue­less as any­one. Again, discuss.

Note: Fort Wayne Observed seems to have the energy to go after this one, and is spec­u­lat­ing that who­ever the buyer is, it’s already a done deal. We live in inter­est­ing times.

UPDATE: FWO now back­track­ing and say­ing the sale isn’t a done deal.

Posted on Monday, March 13th, 2006 at 9:39 am
in Media, Uncategorized.

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11 responses to
“More to be revealed.”

  1. alex said on March 13th, 2006 at 10:22 am

    Didn’t Fort Wayne Observed men­tion a while back that some right-wing lunatic news­pa­per owner from out west some­place had started buy­ing up Inter­net domain names that sug­gested he might be enter­ing the Fort Wayne mar­ket? Oh, well. He can’t make the News-Sentinel any worse than it already is.

  2. Jim said on March 13th, 2006 at 10:26 am

    So will Fort Wayne now become a one-newspaper town? It’s amaz­ing that a city of its size has been able to main­tain two dailies for so long. It will be a sad day when the News-Sentinel folds, but I’m afraid that day will soon be here.

  3. MichaelG said on March 13th, 2006 at 10:58 am

    NPR reports that the News­pa­per Guild is look­ing to buy those papers where they now rep­re­sent the employ­ees (I don’t know how many or which papers these may be) and that McClatchy may be very inter­ested in the deal. McClatchy is going to sell a num­ber of the papers any­way because they aren’t papers that McClatchy wants to keep and because they’ll need the money and because of anti-trust con­cerns. If some of Knight-Ridder’s papers are less than prof­itable and if there is poten­tial for union strife . . .

  4. Dan said on March 13th, 2006 at 2:33 pm

    alex… I think the “right-wing lunatic” buy­ing up web­site names men­tioned at FWO was War­ren Buffet.”

  5. alex said on March 13th, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    No, Dan, I’d have remem­bered that. This was a name unknown to me at the time.

  6. nancy said on March 13th, 2006 at 3:42 pm

    It’s Phil Anschutz you’re think­ing of, Alex.

  7. Mitch said on March 14th, 2006 at 7:48 am

    Fort Wayne Observed cited a St. Paul Pio­neer Press story yes­ter­day that the News­pa­per Guild will only be inter­ested in 6 of the 12 news­pa­pers; the News-Sentinel is not on that list.

    Sale of all 12 will occur at clos­ing. Thus, McClatchy will never have any point of own­er­ship of the 12. This puts employ­ees in a very tough posi­tion at those 12 newspapers.

    There is no clear suitor for the Fort Wayne prop­erty. Gan­nett would seem to be the most likely fit given their posi­tion in Indi­anapo­lis, Lafayette and Mar­ion. How­ever, the JOA makes it a very com­pli­cated question.

  8. David D. Grandstaff said on March 14th, 2006 at 8:04 am

    …while neigh­bor North Man­ches­ter con­tin­ues to have two papers, albeit weekly only.

  9. J.Gallagher M. D. said on March 24th, 2006 at 1:28 pm

    NNall: A per­sonal inquiry if you will. I knew a young girl by the name “Nancy Nall” who lived at 79th and Ingle­side on Chicago’s South­East side dur­ing the early ’50’s. I stum­bled onto your col­umn thru a men­tion of same by Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tri­bune. Could this be the same NN ? Reply at your own risk. Thanks Joe Gal­lagher Oak Lawn, Ill 60453

  10. nancy said on March 24th, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    Nope. I wasn’t born until the late ‘50s. Never lived in Chicago. But we’re — the other NN and I — prob­a­bly related.

  11. J.Gallagher M. D. said on March 25th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

    NN: Thank you for the prompt reply. Oh well. “noth­ing ven­tured, noth­ing gained”. JTG

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