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  • Star Tribune publisher admits to taking data from Pioneer Press

    06/25/2007 3:58:33 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 4 replies · 445+ views
    KSTP.com ^ | 6/25/07 | AP
    Par Ridder, the publisher at the center of a legal fight between Minnesota's metro dailies, acknowledged in court testimony Monday that he took confidential computer files and a folder of noncompete agreements - including his own - when he left the St. Paul Pioneer Press for the Star Tribune. In videotaped testimony, Ridder admitted copying documents from his Pioneer Press computer and transferring them to his new computer at the Star Tribune, then sharing some of the documents with key Star Tribune executives. "I had profit numbers, revenue numbers, expense numbers," and sensitive information on advertisers and personnel, he said....
  • TIMES IN CRISIS; SEEKS EXPERT HELP WITH SHAREHOLDER REVOLT (Jayson Blair, Judith Miller scandals fal

    04/27/2006 3:11:06 AM PDT · by Liz · 74 replies · 1,605+ views
    NY POST ^ | April 27, 2006 | JANET WHITMAN
    Facing shareholder dissent and getting flak for bloated executive pay deals, The New York Times is frantically searching for crisis p.r. experts as the company gears up for a public battle over the future of the newspaper giant. Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. and other top management have been criticized for putting off the concerns of Morgan Stanley portfolio manager Hassan Elmasry and for a share price that's plummeted 50 percent since 2002. Soon after Morgan's attack last week on The Times, the publisher's spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis, was phoning Knight Ridder spokesman Polk Laffoon seeking advice, sources familiar with the...
  • Parting with firm he nurtured takes toll on KR chief (Media Obituary Alert)

    03/14/2006 12:03:54 PM PST · by abb · 2 replies · 237+ views
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | March 14, 2006 | Pete Carey
    Tony Ridder, chairman and chief executive officer of Knight Ridder, spent the past several weeks crafting the best deal he could to sell his company. And he feels terrible about it. Forced by dissident shareholders in November to offer the company for sale, Ridder found what looked like a good deal for the Knight Ridder family of 32 papers -- a sale to McClatchy of Sacramento. But it has turned into what Ridder sees as the shocking abandonment of 12 of them. While Ridder had always expected a successful bidder to sell off some of the papers, he said Monday,...
  • C-SPAN This Morning: Thurow and Ridder

    10/08/2003 6:56:34 AM PDT · by Ed_in_NJ · 142+ views
    My TV. ^ | 10/08/03 | Ed_in_NJ
    Just a heads-up that Lester Thurow (economist) and Anthony Ridder (CEO of Knight Ridder) are on this morning, for those that can catch the rerun.
  • Knight Ridder Papers Hit by Web Attack

    09/12/2003 6:47:33 AM PDT · by bedolido · 5 replies · 179+ views
    E-Week/Associated Press ^ | 09/12/03 | Staff Writer
    <p>SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)—The Web sites of Knight Ridder's 31 daily newspapers slowed to a crawl or were made inaccessible by a denial-of-service attack that lasted for several hours earlier this week.</p> <p>The sites, which include the Internet homes of The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer and San Jose Mercury News, came under attack Tuesday morning and technicians had restored the services by 2:45 p.m. EDT, said Amy Dalton, spokeswoman for Knight Ridder Digital.</p>