Pulitzer, Inc.

Infobox Company
company_name = Pulitzer, Inc.
company_
company_type = Public
foundation = 1947
location = Hershey, Pennsylvania
key_people = David J. Barrett, president/chief operating officer
area_served = (Nationwide)
industry = Broadcast Television (sold to Hearst-Argyle Television in 1999)
Newspapers
products = Broadcast television (sold to Hearst-Argyle in 1999)
Newspapers
revenue = profit $785.4 million USD (2006)
operating_income = profit $228.8 million USD (2006)
net_income = profit $98.7 million USD (2006)
num_employees = approx. 3000 (full time)
parent =
subsid =
homepage =
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Founded by yellow-journalist Joseph Pulitzer (who also funded the Pulitzer Prizes, which are not affiliated with the company), Pulitzer Inc., owned 14 daily newspapers across the United States. Its papers included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), which was published by its Star Publishing Company subsidiary.

Television stations owned

Prior to 1999, Pulitzer owned a sizable television group, whose stations are listed in the table below:

** KSD-TV was the only television station built and signed-on by Pulitzer.

In 1998, Pulitzer announced the sale of its entire television group to Hearst-Argyle Television, with the sale closing in March 1999.

Ownership

Pulitzer Inc. was sold to Lee Enterprises for $1.46 billion on June 3, 2005 (although both Gannett and the E.W. Scripps Company had expressed interest in buying the Pulitzer company [http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2004/12/06/daily45.html] prior to Lee's acquisition of the company).

Competition

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External links

Data

* [http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/14/14507.html Yahoo! - Pulitzer Inc. Company Profile]