Lee Enterprises

Infobox Company
company_name = Lee Enterprises
company_
company_type = Public (nyse|LEE)
foundation = 1890
location = Davenport, Iowa
key_people = A.W. Lee, Founder
Mary Junck, President, CEO, Chairman
num_employees = 10,700 [ [http://www.lee.net/aboutlee/history/index.shtml Lee Enterprises Inc.: publishing, newspapers, online, shoppers, classified, specialty publications ] ]
industry = Media
products = Newspapers and Television station
homepage = [http://www.lee.net/index.shtml Lee Enterprises website]

Lee Enterprises (NYSE|LEE) is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 56 daily newspapers in 23 states, and more than 300 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by A.W. Lee and is based in Davenport, Iowa.

The company also provides online services, including Web sites supporting its daily newspapers and certain of its other publications. Lee also owns 82.5% of TownNews.com, an Internet service company. The company offers commercial printing services to its customers. Lee Enterprises is currently the fourth largest newspaper group in the United States of America. The company acquired Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005.

Lee newspapers

* Newspaper owned by Capital Newspapers, a partnership with The Capital Times Company.

Television

Lee formerly operated a broadcasting division, which it sold in 2000 in order to focus on newspaper publishing. Most of the TV stations were sold to Emmis Communications [http://www.lee.net/newsreleases/news-2000-10-02-emmis.shtml] , and have all been sold, as of 2007, to other companies.

Note: ** - indicates a station built and signed-on by Lee Enterprises.

References

External links

* [http://www.lee.net/ Lee Enterprises]
** [http://www.lee.net/newspapers/ Newspapers]
** [http://www.lee.net/aboutlee/history.shtml History]