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Mary Junck

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Post-Dispatch Lays Off Six People Today

    [UPDATE: United Media Guild tweets the number is now at six. Four copy editors, one photographer and one manager laid off. Erica Smith emailed to correct that one copy editor was part-time, the other was a full-time employee. The following post has been slightly tweaked to reflect that.]Twitter swee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Lee Enterprises Defers Pension Payments to Employees

    Post-Dispatch employees enrolled in the Pulitzer pension plan received letters this weekend notifying them that Lee Enterprises chose to exercise an election that allowed the company to defer paying into the plan for all of 2011. So Lee deferred making payments to employee pensions for 2011, but gav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Lee Enterprises Lost $26.6 Million Last Fiscal Quarter

    Lee Enterprises announced a loss of $26.6 million for the second fiscal quarter ending March 25, for a loss of 54 cents per common share of stock. That's down quite a bit from the 3 cent loss per share in the same quarter for 2011, but the difference between the two years is that this year Lee paid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    P-D Employees Protest CEO's Half-Million Dollar Bonus

    Many of you shared our outrage a few weeks ago when we reported that Lee Enterprises, parent company of the Post-Dispatch, gave its CEO Mary Junck a $500,000 bonus for successfully guiding the corporation out of bankruptcy. CFO Carl Schmidt made out pretty well, too: He got $250,000. The P-D employ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Warren Buffett Buys Lee Enterprise Debt, Now Owns 4% of the Company

    Matt Wirz of the Wall Street Journal reports that famed investor Warren Buffett, "the Oracle of Omaha," has purchased $85 million of Lee Enterprise's debt through his Berkshire Hathaway investment company. The purchase translates to a four percent ownership of the company,  which itself owns th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Lee Enterprises Files for Bankruptcy

    Juncked: Lee files for Chapter 11 refinancing.​It's been speculated for months. And today it finally happened. Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based publisher that took on a massive amount of debt in 2005 to purchase the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has filed for bankruptcy. Below is a letter that Lee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    P-D Parent Company, Lee, Tightening Its Belt After Rough Week

    A bad day for Lee Enterprises could become a bad day for the P-D.​Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based company that owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arizona Daily Star and a host of smaller newspapers, has issued a press release that explains a bit about that very bad day the company had earlier t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Post-Dispatch Parent Made Bank (Sorta) This Last Quarter

    Wikimedia Commons​Circulation, print advertising and online ads this past quarter all declined (again) on the books of Lee Enterprises, the corporate parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But so did the costs of compensation, newsprint and ink. Which is good news for Iowa-based Lee.&nbs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Post-Dispatch Parent Co. Suspends 401(k) Contributions

    Wikimedia Commons​Circulation, print advertising and online ads this past quarter all declined (again) on the books of Lee Enterprises, the corporate parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But so did the costs of compensation, newsprint and ink. Which is good news for Iowa-based Lee.&nbs ... More >>

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Unreal News Challenge 2005!

    Time again to take the year-end quiz

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Pulitzer's Gain

    Some say Pulitzer Inc.'s sale to Lee Enterprises blew in quicker than a shotgun wedding. Others saw it coming a mile away.

  • News

    February 9, 2005

    Tough Love

    Out with the Pulitzer Prize, in with the Lee EnterPrize! Plus: Unreal learns a thing or two about loveless marriages, sexually deviant robots and a man who gets lots of our money

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