Spanish media company Promotora de Informaciones S.A., known as Grupo Prisa, has its fingers in lots of pies--newspaper and book publishing, radio broadcasting and pay TV, to name a few.
These include modest government subsidies and newspaper publishing licences that are hard to come by otherwise.
Towering columns and idle balconies fill the district around Talaat Harb Street, as do newspaper offices, publishing firms and law chambers, all full of thirsty talkers.
It really did appear that it would be cheaper to just give every reader a tablet and stop publishing the physical newspaper altogether.
Prior to 2004 Conrad Black was a columnist, as well as chairman and chief executive of Hollinger International (now part of Sun-Times Media Group), a newspaper publishing giant whose holdings include the Chicago Sun-Times and the Daily Telegraph.
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Three senior journalists have gone on trial in Uganda on charges of publishing false news and sedition after their newspaper published a photograph of soldiers manhandling a naked woman.
Jorgensen sold his small newspaper group to Hart-Hanks, a Texas-based publishing and marketing conglomerate, which hoped to surround The Boston Globe and strangle it by taking all the ads from the rich suburbs, leaving the husk of the inner city to the city paper.
The biggest: a dramatic shift away from slow-growth newspaper publishing, leaving the company to focus more on its higher-margin entertainment and digital-distribution properties.
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Prosecutors this month announced charges against six people, including Rebekah Brooks, a former News of the World and Sun editor who later became chief executive of News International, the British newspaper publishing arm of Murdoch's News Corp.
Although he was born in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, Patarkatsishvili made much of his wealth in Russia and at one time owned major Russian publishing house Kommersant, best known for its business newspaper of the same name.
The basic background is that the newspaper publishing industry in several European countries is adamant that Google makes vast profits from running the search engine and therefore they want some of that money.
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