40-577: 2009 Ranked 65 of 100 149,608 Daily 160,016 Sunday 2008 Ranked 63 of 100 164,189 Daily 172,730 Sunday The Press-Enterprise is a paid daily newspaper published by Digital First Media that serves the Inland Empire in Southern California . Headquartered in downtown Riverside, California , it is the primary newspaper for Riverside County , with heavy penetration into neighboring San Bernardino County . The geographic circulation area of
80-480: A proxy fight . After a failed attempt to place 3 nominees on Gannett's board of directors through a proxy vote on May 16, 2019, DFM reduced their stake to 4.2%. In August 2019, GateHouse Media ultimately announced its intent to acquire Gannett instead. On February 5, 2020, Digital First Media purchased the assets of Minnesota-based Red Wing Publishing/Big Fish Works. The sale included the Hutchinson Leader ,
120-564: A case involving the rape and murder of a teenage girl, the Press-Enterprise requested that the voir dire , the process of questioning the jury, be open to the public and press. The request was denied, as well as the request for the subsequent transcripts, and upheld by the California Court of Appeal . The California Supreme Court denied the Press-Enterprise 's request for a hearing. The United States Supreme Court decided in favor of
160-519: A hub near a cluster of newspapers. For example, the Alameda Newspaper Group in suburban San Francisco in the mid-1990s had a central newsroom in Pleasanton, California, that did all the copy editing, layout and page makeup for five daily papers. Upon acquiring the diverse group of papers, Singleton consolidated several news sections (such as sports and features) to one local office away from
200-633: A reporter when he was 15, for a small-town Texas newspaper and subsequently became the president of Albritton Communications , a newspaper conglomerate in Texas. Based in Denver, Colorado, Scudder and Singleton purchased their first newspaper in 1983. They incorporated MediaNews Group in 1985, with Singleton as CEO and Scudder as chairman. The company began to purchase small local newspapers that were financially troubled. The company made its first major acquisition in 1987: The Denver Post . Ultimately, it became one of
240-1696: A reputation for cutting costs by reducing the number of journalists working on its newspapers as Singleton had done and March 2018, The Washington Post called Alden "one of the most ruthless of the corporate strip-miners seemingly intent on destroying local journalism." Alden has additionally received critical coverage from its editorial staff of the Denver Post and described Alden Global Capital as "vulture capitalists" after multiple staff layoffs. The company has been criticized for investing its employee pensions in funds managed by its parent company, Alden Global Capital . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NBC News Wall Street Journal Politico MSNBC / CNBC / Telemundo Bloomberg Government Washington Examiner Boston Globe / Washington Blade Fox News CBS News Radio AP Radio / PBS VOA Time Yahoo News Daily Caller / EWTN CBS News Bloomberg News McClatchy NY Post / TheGrio Washington Times Salem Radio / CBN Cheddar News / Hearst TV AP NPR Foreign pool The Hill Regionals Newsmax Gray TV / Spectrum News ABC News Washington Post Agence France-Presse Fox Business / Fox News Radio CSM / Roll Call Al Jazeera Nexstar / Scripps News Reuters NY Times LA Times Univision / AURN RealClearPolitics Daily Beast / Dallas Morning News BBC / Newsweek CNN USA Today ABC News Radio Daily Mail National Journal HuffPost Financial Times / The Guardian 1968 Pulitzer Prize From Misplaced Pages,
280-545: Is a Denver , Colorado, United States–based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital . As of May 2021, it owns over 100 newspapers and 200 assorted other publications. MediaNews Group was founded by Richard Scudder and William Dean Singleton . Both had experience in the American newspaper industry . Scudder ran the Newark Evening News , a newspaper founded by his grandfather. Singleton had begun his career as
320-501: The Jacksonville Journal , for his photograph, "The Kiss of Life". Feature Photography : Toshio Sakai of United Press International , for his Vietnam War combat photograph, "Dreams of Better Times". Letters, Drama and Music Awards [ edit ] Fiction : The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron ( Random ). Drama : No award given. History : The Ideological Origins of
360-613: The Orange County Register and the Riverside Press-Enterprise to Digital First Media. The papers were integrated into Digital First Media's Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which was renamed the Southern California News Group on the same day. In November 2018, Digital First Media announced plans to lay off 107 staff from its Colorado Springs, Colorado financial services operations, as it outsources
400-762: The Litchfield Independent Review , the International Falls Journal , the Lakeshore Weekly News , the Chanhassen Villager , Chaska Herald , Eden Prairie News , Jordan Independent , Shakopee Valley News , Prior Lake American and the Savage Pacer . In April 2020, two of Minneapolis' west metro newspapers— The Eden Prairie News and Lakeshore Weekly News bought earlier in 2020 by Digital First Media—announced their closure at
440-667: The Perris Valley Record and the Moreno Valley Indicator . The paper was published somewhat sporadically through 1911 by various owners, and under various names, including; Riverside Weekly Enterprise , Riverside Semi-weekly Enterprise , Weekly Enterprise , and the Morning Mission . In 1912, The Enterprise was sold to the owners of the San Bernardino Sun . In 1931 The Press purchased The Enterprise from
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#1732851168710480-566: The Press-Enterprise , establishing that the public has the right to attend jury selection during criminal trials. The second case, won in 1986, was also called Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of California . The case involved Robert Diaz who was accused of 12 patient murders while acting as a nurse at the Community Hospital of the Valleys in Perris, California . The defendant requested that
520-636: The Register and the Press-Enterprise were sold in a bankruptcy auction to Digital First Media in March 2016. The Press-Enterprise' s local competitors are the San Bernardino Sun and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin , along with sharing some of its western circulation areas with the Orange County Register and The Californian (of Temecula ) in the southwest area. The Riverside Press
560-764: The San Bernardino Sun . The newly combined company issued The Enterprise in the morning, and The Press in the evenings. In 1954 the Riverside Press changed its company name to the Press-Enterprise Company, and in 1955 the two papers began printing a joint Sunday edition called the Sunday Press-Enterprise . Due to market conditions, the two papers were combined into one morning paper, The Press-Enterprise , in 1983. The Dallas-based A.H. Belo Corporation purchased The Press-Enterprise Company from
600-506: The American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn ( Harvard Univ. Press ). Biography or Autobiography : Memoirs by George F. Kennan ( Little ). Poetry : The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht ( Atheneum ). General Nonfiction : Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will Durant and Ariel Durant ( Simon & Schuster ). Music : Echoes of Time and
640-3060: The Courts . David McKay Company. ^ "Alfred Friendly of The Washington Post" . The Pulitzer Prizes . Retrieved 2020-08-22 . ^ "John S. Knight of Knight Newspapers" . The Pulitzer Prizes . Retrieved 2020-08-22 . ^ "Observer's Payne wins Pulitzer Prize" . The Charlotte Observer . May 7, 1968 – via Newspapers.com. ( Part 2 of article ) ^ David Gillespie (May 8, 1968). "Eugene Payne—How he does it" . The Charlotte Observer – via Newspapers.com. ^ Matt Soergel (July 16, 2017). "50 years later, 'Kiss of Life' photo still stops people in their tracks" . The Florida Times-Union . Retrieved 2020-08-22 . External links [ edit ] Official website v t e Pulitzer Prize Joseph Pulitzer Columbia University Winners Multi-award winners Special Citations and Awards Pulitzers by Year 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Categories Journalism Public Service International Reporting National Reporting Breaking News Reporting Investigative Reporting Local Reporting Explanatory Reporting Audio Reporting Editorial Writing Feature Writing Breaking News Photography Feature Photography Commentary Criticism Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Former Reporting Correspondence Photography Beat Reporting Letters, Drama, & Music Biography Memoir or Autobiography History General Nonfiction Fiction Poetry Drama Music Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1968_Pulitzer_Prize&oldid=1256645970 " Categories : Pulitzer Prizes by year 1968 awards 1968 in
680-535: The Hays family through multiple acquisitions in 1997 and 1998. Enterprise Media was formed in 2010 and released a B2B website, enterprisemedia.co. In 2013, The Press-Enterprise was sold to Freedom Communications for $ 27 million. On March 21, 2016, The Press-Enterprise and its sister newspaper the Orange County Register were sold to Digital First Media , after Freedom Communications declared bankruptcy and
720-893: The River by George Crumb ( Belwin-Mills ). An orchestral suite first performed on May 26, 1967, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Mandel Hall, University of Chicago , having been commissioned by the university in connection with the celebration of its 75th anniversary. References [ edit ] ^ "How Detroit's paper leaped into riots—and a prize" . The Charlotte Observer . May 7, 1968 – via Newspapers.com. ^ "J. Anthony Lukas of The New York Times" . The Pulitzer Prizes . Retrieved 2020-08-22 . ^ "Register's Nick Kotz wins Pulitzer Prize in reporting" . The Des Moines Register . May 7, 1968 – via Newspapers.com. ( Part 2 of article ) ^ Howard James (1968). Crisis in
760-403: The company acquired The Scranton Times-Tribune and three other daily newspapers from Times-Shamrock Communications . The sale included weekly and periodic newspapers and commercial printing operations—Absolute Distribution Inc. and Times-Shamrock Creative Services. In April 2024, Southwest News Media, owned by Digital First Media, announced its weekly newspapers would cease before the end of
800-443: The company did not begin publishing a daily morning paper named The Press-Enterprise until 1983. A. H. Belo acquired the company in 1998. In October 2013, A.H. Belo announced that it had reached an agreement to sell The Press-Enterprise's assets to Freedom Communications , parent company of the Orange County Register , for $ 27 million; after some delays, the transaction closed in late November. Freedom declared bankruptcy in 2015,
840-519: The company was ranked third-largest among the newspaper groups in the country. Alden Global Capital has been accused of "strip mining" its newspaper holdings. In October 2017, the company's CEO, Steve Rossi, stepped down from his position. In February 2018, Digital First Media put in a $ 11.9 million winning bid to purchase the Boston Herald. In March 2016, a bankruptcy judge approved the sale of Freedom Communications and its two major newspapers,
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#1732851168710880-539: The end of April 2020 due to a decline in advertising revenue amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 25, 2021, Alden Global Capital acquired Tribune Publishing . With its combined holdings, Alden became the second-largest owner of newspapers in the United States in terms of subscribers, behind only Gannett . On July 10, 2023, Digital First Media acquired The San Diego Union-Tribune for an undisclosed sum. That August,
920-417: The 💕 Awards given at the 1968 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 1968 are: Journalism awards [ edit ] [REDACTED] "Kiss of Life", the winning spot news photograph [REDACTED] "Dreams of Better Times", the winning feature photograph Public Service : The Riverside Press-Enterprise , for its exposé of corruption in the courts in connection with
960-580: The handling of the property and estates of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Palm Springs, California , and its successful efforts to punish the culprits. Local General or Spot News Reporting : The Detroit Free Press staff, for its coverage of the Detroit riots of 1967, recognizing both the brilliance of its detailed spot news staff work and its swift and accurate investigation into
1000-503: The handling of the property and estates of the Agua Caliente Indian tribe of Palm Springs, California . The series was written by George Ringwald. The Press-Enterprise Company won two separate United States Supreme Court cases that established the public's right to witness specific aspects of criminal court proceedings. The first case, won in 1984, was Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of California, Riverside County . In
1040-544: The largest newspaper companies in the United States. It operated 56 daily newspapers in 12 states, with combined daily and Sunday circulation of about 2.4 million and 2.7 million, respectively. The company owned KTVA , a CBS affiliate in Anchorage , Alaska , from March 2000 to October 2012, and radio stations in Texas . Singleton was a pioneer in "clustering": cutting jobs at individual newspapers and consolidating functions at
1080-522: The loan was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . It came out of bankruptcy in March 2010 under the majority ownership of its lenders. The MediaNews creditors then removed Media News president Jody Lodovic and its chairman, William Dean Singleton , was reassigned to the position of "executive chairman of the board." The Singleton-Lodovic appointees to the MediaNews board were replaced by new directors representing
1120-471: The metropolitan area, having a few reporters do the job of many people. Singleton soon earned the nickname "Lean Dean" for his slashing of jobs through clustering. His tight-fisted methods were later adopted as the preferred model by Alden Global Capital and other hedge funds that took over near-bankrupt newspaper companies. In August 2006, Singleton took out around $ 350 million in loans to purchase four newspapers from McClatchy Company . Among those providing
1160-486: The month, including: Chaska Herald , Chanhassen Villager , Jordan Independent , the Shakopee Valley News , Prior Lake American and Savage Pacer. Crow River Media, another subsidiary, announced The Hutchinson Leader and Litchfield Independent Review will also close along with its affiliate printing plant. Listed alphabetically by name, daily newspapers owned by MediaNews include the following: Some of
1200-640: The newspaper spans from the border of Orange County to the west, east to the Coachella Valley , north to the San Bernardino Mountains , and south to the San Diego County line. The Press-Enterprise is a member of the Southern California News Group . The newspaper traces its roots to The Press , which began publishing in 1878, and The Daily Enterprise , which started publishing in 1885. The two papers were merged into one company in 1931, but
1240-406: The newspapers are focused on making a profit to the detriment of good journalism. William Dean Singleton was quick to point out MediaNews' commitment to print journalism but resisted efforts to develop online web sites for his newspapers, believing print would remain the format favored by readers. The Berkshire Eagle editor David E. Scribner, two years after MediaNews bought his newspaper, said
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1280-648: The passage of the federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967. Howard James of The Christian Science Monitor , for his series of articles, "Crisis in the Courts". International Reporting : Alfred Friendly of The Washington Post , for his coverage of the Middle East War of 1967. Editorial Writing : John S. Knight of Knight Newspapers , for his distinguished editorial writing. Editorial Cartooning : Eugene Gray Payne of The Charlotte Observer , for his editorial cartooning in 1967. Spot News Photography : Rocco Morabito of
1320-574: The public be excluded from the proceedings. The Magistrate granted the unopposed request because of the national attention that the case had garnered. At the end of the hearing the Press-Enterprise requested that the transcripts be released, but the request was denied and the records were sealed. The United States Supreme Court decided that the public has the right to attend pretrial hearings in criminal cases, including preliminary hearings. Digital First Media MNG Enterprises, Inc. , doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group ,
1360-402: The staff realized Singleton had miscalculated the impact of the internet and attributed the downward spiral of his media properties to his short-sightedness. In recent years similar criticism has been aimed at the new organizational structure under Digital First Media. The Denver Post editorial staff and others have criticized the owners of hedge fund group, Alden Global Capital . Alden has
1400-441: The stockholders group led by Alden Global Capital , a hedge fund firm which has acquired a large, though not controlling, stake. Several interim executive positions were also filled by people related to Alden or its parent, Smith Management LLC. MediaNews became managed by Journal Register 's Digital First Media. As of 2012, the combined newspapers and online media outlets managed by the company had 66.6 million readers. In 2017,
1440-502: The underlying causes of the tragedy. Local Investigative Specialized reporting : J. Anthony Lukas of The New York Times , for the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick. National Reporting : Nathan K. Kotz of the Des Moines Register and Minneapolis Tribune , for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped insure
1480-500: The weeklies owned by the company: Other MediaNews properties include: MediaNews Group is known as a cost-cutter in the newspaper publishing industry. The company has a reputation for buying smaller daily newspapers in a single area (examples include Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area) and consolidating their operations, including sharing staff writers and printing facilities. Some former employees and readers say that
1520-433: The work to Genpact starting December 28. In January 2019, Digital First Media acquired 7.5% of Gannett 's public stock, and made an unsolicited bid to acquire Gannett for $ 1.36 billion. On February 4, 2019, Gannett's board "unanimously rejected" the offer, saying "that MNG does not have a realistic plan to acquire Gannett". On February 11, 2019, Gannett issued a press release accusing Digital First Media of engaging in
1560-463: Was first published on June 29, 1878, by James Roe, a druggist and teacher. In 1880 Roe sold the newspaper to Luther M. Holt, who, for several years, published the paper under the name the Riverside Press and Horticulturist . In 1886 Holt began issuing the paper daily. The Riverside Daily Enterprise was first published in 1885 by David F. Sarber, and became a county paper in 1896 when it absorbed
1600-639: Was placed in an auction which included Tribune Publishing . With Digital First Media as its new owner, it now expands to 11 daily newspapers, six in Los Angeles County, three in San Bernardino County, one in Orange County, and one in Riverside County. The Press-Enterprise won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its exposé of corruption in the courts in connection with
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