Potential buyers tour papers' plants
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, February, 2006 by Joseph N. DiStefano
A potential buyer of Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News owner Knight Ridder Inc. toured the Philadelphia newspapers' facilities yesterday, the largest and most recent delegation of several that have been kicking tires at company plants across the country.
A delegation headed by William Dean Singleton, vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews Group of Denver, spent at least two hours meeting with Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. publisher Joseph Natoli, then drove with him to Conshohocken to look at the company's Schuylkill Printing Plant.
Singleton, in a brief phone interview, said that he had "always liked Philadelphia" and that he was visiting "most" of the Knight Ridder papers, but declined to comment on his plans.
His company operates dailies in Denver, Detroit, Oakland, Salt Lake City, El Paso, and dozens of smaller markets, and runs a group of papers in south-central Pennsylvania in alliance with Gannett Co., the nation's largest ...