Daytona newspaper retirees

03/14/2025

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01/26/2025

Woodrow Wilson also relied on a rich friend — then cut him off. One casualty: the League of Nations.

10/18/2024

Noting a Gerald Stanow cold case just solved in Port Orange (victim Kathy Whitman)

08/15/2024

Interesting items from AP and others about a reporter at a Cody Wyoming paper admitting he used AI to fabricate quotes and pad stories. So how did these deceptions get past the copy desk?? Does the paper still have a copy desk?

12/08/2023

Hope a public defender or ACLU gets involved

An 18-year-old migrant faces an aggravated manslaughter charge for the death by heart attack of the sheriff's deputy who arrested him on a resisting charge, while the migrant was on a sidewalk eating dinner and speaking to his mother by phone at his motel in St. Augustine. The death of the deputy wa...

11/25/2023

Relieved to learn this a,m that the Matt Damon obit was a revival of an old hoax. Why did Facebook circulate it?? Will the incompetent fact-checkers get fired??Ten demerits for Zuckerberg.

11/23/2023

Gratitude for the many first responders working this holiday, Not just the military, police, fire and medics, but also truck drivers, airlines, TSA people, shelter workers, clergy, hotel and restaurant crews, farmers and media.

08/22/2023

Publisher is sued for alleged reverse discrimination in new federal case.

07/05/2023

A relative of a former Pennysaver worker called me asking how to get her N-J pension checks sent to different bank. I directed her to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. in Alexandria Va, 800-400-7242. Pathetic that Gannett no longer provides retirees with simple FAQ information

12/09/2021

Bidding Ping Pong continues for Lee Enterprises. Alden offers $24 a share, Lee counters with in-your-dreams $100-plus a share.

The board of Lee Enterprises has unanimously voted to reject an unsolicited takeover proposal from Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting journalists at local papers to maximize profits.

11/25/2021

Alden hedge fund takes aim at Lee chain. I think E&P's hed is misleading...Lee is NOT saying "No, thank you " to Alden... it's holding out for more money. Alden might pay way above market for gems like the Omaha and Buffalo papers.

In 2018, news media analyst Ken Doctor penned a that, in part, read: “Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism, it might not want to stop any time soon.” Now, fewer than five months since the ink dried on Alden Global Capital’s acquisition of the Tribune titles, i...

10/19/2021

Might want to browse through the latest Fitch "B" bond rating for Gannett, which projects a continued slide in ad and subscription revenue, not fully offset by online revenue growth. https://www.fitchratings.com/research/corporate-finance/fitch-assigns-b-first-time-idr-to-gannett-outlook-stable-01-10-2021

Company says the new loan will reduce its cost of capital by nearly 200 basis points.