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7001
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In January, 2005, the sale of the 50,000--circulation Durham daily, The Herald-Sun to the Paxton Media Group of Paducah, KY was completed. Sources inside the media industry say the Kentucky newspaper chain paid $125 million, or twice what analysts estimated the Durham paper was worth. Morgan discusses the sale and its impact on the newspaper staff and future direction of the paper.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 2, Jan 2005, p14-15, 17 Periodical Website
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7005
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In January 2005, the Durham Herald-sun, a paper locally owned by the Rollins family for over one hundred years, was sold to the Paxton Media Group, of Paducah, KY. After the sale, Paxton dismissed a number of the newspaper's employees. Brown, a Durham city councilman, discusses his concerns for the city's journalistic future.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 2, Jan 2005, p36-37 Periodical Website
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7006
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Jim Wise, a Durham HERALD-SUN columnist with twenty-three years experience with the paper, was one of the employees escorted off the premises after the newspaper's purchase by the Paxton Group in January 2005. Wise discusses the incident and his long experience with the paper.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 2, Jan 2005, p36-37, por Periodical Website
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7007
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Howard had worked six years at the Durham Herald-Sun in the Information Technology division as the Macintosh Support Specialist. He discusses what it feels like to be young, hard-working, and escorted out the door by the newspaper's new owners.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 2, Jan 2005, p37, il Periodical Website
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7282
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In January, 2005, the sale of the 50,000-circulation Durham daily, The Herald-Sun, to the Paxton Media Group of Paducah, KY was completed. Paxton owns twenty-eight other newspapers around the nation with an average circulation of 30,000. On the day the sale was completed, Paxton Media fired and escorted to the parking lot members of the Herlad-Sun's staff, starting with the paper's publisher and president. Approximately eighty positions were eliminated. Gray discusses the takeover; the emphasis given to the firings and takeover by the Raleigh News and Observer and Durham's Independent Weekly and whether the emphasis was justified or not; and what the new ownership will mean to the Durham Herlad-Sun and its readers.
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