All entries tagged: hearst
An imaginary conversation about the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s fate continues to hang in the balance, Steven Swartz (CEO of P-I owner Hearst) and Lincoln Millstein (Hearst’s Senior VP-Digital) have lunch:
Millstein: Steve, we need to make up our minds about the P-I. The 60-day clock we put them on stopped three days ago.
Swartz: Yes, I’m sorry — I’ve been [...]
Hearst’s 100 days of change: On the right track, or misguided?
Steven R. Swartz, appointed president of Hearst’s newspaper division in December, sent around a memo last week reporting to his troops on the “100 days of change” he launched not long after taking the job, the midpoint of which had come around.
Predictably, the memo got leaked and was published by the Wall Street Journal (scroll [...]
Hearst, MediaNews: You can invent the future in San Francisco
MEMO TO: Steven Swartz (CEO, Hearst Newspapers) and Dean Singleton (CEO, MediaNews Group)
See that bridge? When finished in 1937, it was not an incremental step. It was a leap into the future.
Wouldn’t it be a terrific idea to search for the boldest, most imaginative solution to your problems in California?
Mr. Swartz, you’ve let it be [...]
