Web, social and mobile analytics market leader Webtrends has been working with Telegraph Media Group (The Telegraph) to support the development of its iPad application, which features the best content from The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph versions of the newspaper for free.
News America Incorporated, a subsidiary of News Corporation, today announced the pricing of an issuance of $1 billion of 4.50% Senior Notes due 2021 and $1.5 billion of 6.15% Senior Notes due 2041 (together, the “Notes”). The closing of the offering is expected to occur on February 16, 2011, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. News America will receive gross proceeds of $2,486,075,000 from this offering and expects to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, including the refinancing of near term maturities.
Hearst Newspapers announced today that Kevin Hall has been named vice president of advertising for Hearst Newspapers’ Northeast cluster, including its four daily and seven weekly Connecticut newspapers and the Albany Times Union. The announcement was made by Mark E. Aldam, executive vice president of Hearst Newspapers, and George R. Hearst III, publisher of the Albany Times Union. Hall will start on March 14.
Tribune Company today announced that the results of the voting on the two proposed Plans of Reorganization pending before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware overseeing its Chapter 11 proceedingshave been filed with the court by the court-appointed voting agent.
Current challenges and new opportunities for news publisher and media companies are on the agenda for the 10th International Newsroom Summit, to be held in Zurich on 9 and 10 June 2010.
Brazilian newspaper publisher, Editora Central Ltda., has contracted with TENSOR GROUP, INC. to install a state of the art, beautifully equipped TENSOR T-1400 semi-commercial web press at its manufacturing facility in Maringá, Paraná.
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) today announced the winners of 11 President’s Awards for journalism excellence in 2010 for a range of projects, including investigative work, digital innovation, explanatory coverage and narrative writing. Journalists from the Carolinas to California were recognized in awards for the company’s best work of the year.
