Sentences with phrase «newspaper assets»

Is the burden being placed on the spun newspaper assets prudent, given their marketplace and transformation challenges?

Meanwhile, those would - be profits that could have flowed to a buyer of newspaper assets now won't.

The comments deal with conflict of interest allegations against Torys» Darren Sukonick and former partner Elizabeth DeMerchant, both of whom were key lawyers on the sale of Hollinger newspaper assets in the early 2000s and who led the firm's Hollinger work.

Moreover, it's being prepped for a counter-strike under the leadership of former Sun Media boss Paul Godfrey, who now heads Postmedia, a company forged by the recent $ 1.1 - billion creditor acquisition of Canwest's distressed newspaper assets.

But for Gannett, there is only one real driving force behind its offer, and that is the need to consolidate as many print newspaper assets as possible, as cheaply as possible.

Anyhow, Gannett's bid — at an announced multiple of more than five times Tribune earnings — exceeds what Apollo has, as a rule, been willing to pay for newspaper assets.

And as it is with property, so goes the traditional print media space, where investors have seen accountants significantly write down once extremely valuable newspaper assets, while debt levels have proven immune to such accounting adjustments.

Dorothy DeMerchant and Darren Sukonick have brought a lawsuit against the provincial regulator for negligent investigation and malicious prosecution after the two former lawyers successfully fought allegations they had acted in a conflict of interest when representing Conrad Black's Hollinger group of companies in the sale of its CanWest Global newspaper assets.

As has been widely reported, the Hearing Panel dismissed all six of the charges against Mr. Sukonick and Ms. DeMerchant for conflict of interest stemming out of their representation of Hollinger International Inc. and related parties in, inter alia, the sale of Hollinger newspaper assets to CanWest.

Indeed, under Ken's reign, the company sold off most of its newspaper assets, including the Times of London and the Sunday Times.

They'll formally name the number they'll pay for Freedom's newspaper assets — and its real estate — after a creditors» committee defines the bidding process.

Its decision to separate its newspaper assets parallels the industry's.

They've made the next new Tribune Company — as compared to the to - be-split-off Tribune Publishing Co., which would hold the newspaper assets only, with unknown assigned cash and debt — an ever better proposition by keeping the digital and real estate assets usually associated with the newspapers.

Media General dispatched its newspaper assets, selling all but one to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Media and the Tampa Tribune, separately, for a song.

As of June 28, the new News Corp took over the newspaper assets of the old News Corp., which became Twenty - First Century Fox, a global TV / entertainment behemoth.

That effort has heated up recently, and Geppert says the group of about 15 local philanthropists has pledged more than half the money needed to buy the newspaper assets.