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Patty Reinert
Newspapers should remain a mass medium
- Gary Pruitt, chairman, president and CEO of The McClatchy Co., made headlines in 2006 when his company acquired Knight Ridder to become the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain. McClatchy’s stock price has plunged, but Pruitt says he has no regrets about the deal and believes newspapers have a strong future as they reinvent themselves as news information companies. As newspaper editors and executives meet in Washington this week, Pruitt will take over as chairman of the Newspaper Association of America.
Survival requires a spirit of innovation and risktaking
- Charlotte Hall, senior vice president and editor of the Orlando Sentinel since 2004, has been recognized for boosting diversity in newsrooms. This week, as newspaper editors and executives meet in Washington, she will begin her one-year term as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Power Profile: Bill Walton
- College came too early for Bill Walton. Because he skipped a grade in elementary school, he entered Indiana University at age 17 — too young, he said, to know what he really wanted to do with his life. After a couple of years, he decided to take a semester off to figure it out.
- College came too early for Bill Walton. Because he skipped a grade in elementary school, he entered Indiana University at age 17 — too young, he said, to know what he really wanted to do with his life. After a couple of years, he decided to take a semester off to figure it out.
Power Profile: Strobe Talbott
- The suitcase was large; its weighty contents a mystery. A young Strobe Talbott, who had lugged the thing up to his friend Steven Weisman’s apartment on New York’s Upper West Side, was clearly nervous leaving it behind while they went to dinner.
- The suitcase was large; its weighty contents a mystery. A young Strobe Talbott, who had lugged the thing up to his friend Steven Weisman’s apartment on New York’s Upper West Side, was clearly nervous leaving it behind while they went to dinner.
Power Profile: Billy Martin
- Sometimes a seemingly minor bump in the road can alter the course of a life. It happened to William R. “Billy” Martin in the early 1970s. Then a Howard University business major, Martin went home to Pittsburgh on a school break and got in an accident with a lawyer driving a fancy sports car.
- Sometimes a seemingly minor bump in the road can alter the course of a life. It happened to William R. “Billy” Martin in the early 1970s. Then a Howard University business major, Martin went home to Pittsburgh on a school break and got in an accident with a lawyer driving a fancy sports car.
