Rafat Ali
Jan 22, 2010 7:21 PM
Affiliated Media, the holding company for newspaper chain MediaNews Group, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as it announced last week. This is a pre-packaged bankruptcy, meaning its lenders are all in agreement, and will reduce the $930 million debt to a more manageable $165 million. None of the…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 15, 2010 10:31 PM
Add William Dean Singleton to the roster of newspaper publishers using bankruptcy court to get out of an over-leveraged financial mess. Affiliated Media, the holding company for MediaNews Group, announced late Friday that it will fill “soon” for prepackaged bankruptcy. Its lenders have approved a Chapter 11 filing to reduce…
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David Kaplan
Sep 30, 2008 2:13 AM
It’s been a rough few years for the newspaper business. With the migration of readers and advertisers from print to online, and then the past year’s economic downturn and market meltdown this month, it’s hard to figure out where the fixes are going to come from. William Dean Singleton, CEO…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 14, 2007 8:36 PM
This was buried in newspaper conglom MediaNews‘s 10-Q filed earlier today with SEC: the newspaper group, along with The Hearst Corp., has bought 80 percent of online classifieds and software firm Kaango, for about $20 million. Kaango will be held by a newly formed LLC, which is 50 percent owned…
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