Death of a Newspaper

Editor & Publisher reports that E.W. Scripps Internet guru Rusty Coats is leaving his post as Scripps' vice president of content and marketing. Says E: "This decision is both professional and personal," he wrote in the memo obtained by E&P.; "On the professional side, after more than 20 years with newspapers -- 15 of them on the interactive side -- I would like to explore the broader interactive world. There is a lot of innovation happening...  

E W Scripps, the newspaper and TV holding company, has decided to put its content and cartoons/comics licensing unit United Media on sale, it announced as part of its Q409 earnings results today. UM is responsible for licensing popular features such as “Peanuts” and “Dilbert”, among others, with the rationale being capitalizing on “recent interest and activity in the market for character-based properties.” Scripps says it will be open to a...  

Shares in the owner of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis and other newspapers and television stations fell after stock grants to company executives matured last week. Executives who had been granted about 1.8 million shares may have sold them after they vested on Friday, according to Lee Rose, a spokeswoman for Scripps - in part because they received no cash ...  

Late last year when Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) finally announced the sale of its UK utility comparison shopping site uSwitch, we knew it was for a lowball price, and we guessed around $50 million, three years after it bought the site for $366 million. Turns out Forward Internet Group, who bought the company, paid a lot less than that. According to Scripps’ 10K that came out earlier this evening, the cash portion of sale price is...  

CINCINNATI, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Michael Vrabac, a television executive and Missouri native, has been named vice president and general manager of two of The E.W. Scripps Company's (NYSE: SSP) television stations in the Kansas City market. Vrabac will head KSHB, the Scripps-owned NBC aff  

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The newspaper business is continuing its dismal descent, in case you were wondering.E.W. Scripps is laying off droves of people on the West Coast and giving their jobs to workers at its Corpus Christi, Texas, newspaper. "Scripps is changing the game, making proofreading, layout and some news decisions for California and Washington take place a thousand-something miles (and a couple of time zones) away in Texas. Other companies are likely to...  

EW Scripps press release Year-over-year revenue from Scripps newspapers fell 15% in the 2009 fourth quarter to $117 million, says the press release. Ad revenue was down 20% to $83.4 million, an improvement in the rate of decline from the third quarter of 2009, when year-over-year ad revenue declined 27%.  

NEW YORK: Food Network has been creating tastefully prepared, highly entertaining programming since 1993. Originally owned by Providence Journal, and then A.H. Belo Corp, the innovative network was acquired by The E.W. Scripps Company (now Scripps Networks Interactive) in 1997. After establishing such household icons as Emeril Live, and Iron Chef America, it has [...]  

CINCINNATI, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Through the generosity of their audiences, The E.W. Scripps Company's (NYSE: SSP) ABC and NBC stations raised a total of more than $1.1 million for Haiti relief through simultaneous live telethons on Tuesday evening, Jan. 19. Funds will support the areas  

Chefs from four local restaurants will compete for the title of "Redding's Best Chili Cook" at the Shasta Estates retirement community on Thursday in a fundraiser to benefit two local organizations. What: Chili Cook-Off to benefit Shasta Women's ...  

Rusty Coats, who directed Internet strategy for E.W. Scripps and was instrumental in forging the Yahoo newspaper consortium, announced he is leaving Scripps -- and, he suggested, the newspaper industry.  

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David Cook works out on his rowing machine at his Redding home. Since May, Cook has rowed more than 1.36 million meters and lost 26 pounds. His wife also uses the machine and has lost 20 pounds. The repetition doesn’t bother them. "It’s kind of ...  

Newspaper publisher and TV station owner E.W. Scripps Co. said Tuesday that reduced restructuring costs offset sliding revenue and helped lift the company to a fourth-quarter profit.