Gary Pruitt
Gary Pruitt
Gary B. Pruittis the President and CEO of the Associated Press and was the CEO, president, and chairman of the board of the McClatchy Company...
best community mass medium reflect relevant serve
We're a mass medium ... The best way to be relevant is to reflect the community and serve it well.
breaking business continuous news puts
This puts us back in the breaking news business and back into the continuous news mode.
newspapers view wisdom
The conventional wisdom is that newspapers are dead. That's the view out there, but it couldn't be more wrong.
earnings estimates fourth good led raise
We are having a good fourth quarter, which has led us to raise our estimates of full-year earnings for 1999.
further journalism plan sustain
We plan to maintain, sustain and further the journalism at these newspapers.
begun exact marketing papers received sold
We don't know how these will be sold or the exact structure. ... We have begun marketing these papers today. We have received inquiries already.
last mass medium
You're the last mass medium here. Everything else is fragmenting.
definitely far newspaper view
Definitely we have the view of the newspaper being the core, as far out as we can project.
below december per resulted results
December advertising, which was down one per cent, resulted in fourth-quarter results below our expectations.
expect robust site web
I think you can expect a more robust and interactive Web site here at The Herald.
break design ground next park year
I think the best-case scenario, we will design the park next year and break ground on park construction in 2007,
albeit anybody audience audiences fragmented holding last local mass onto slowly
Our local competitors have fragmented audiences. As a result, we're the last mass medium. We're holding onto that audience better than anybody else, albeit it's slipping slowly each year.
able tough advertising
We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,.
sunday weekend years
Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.