Dean Singleton is going soft. His Media News Group, which owns the Pioneer Press, is seeking to remove Par Ridder as publisher and CEO of the rival Star-Tribune for only one year. But if Ridder’s testimony Monday is accurate, he should never again be allowed to run a newspaper. Stealing proprietary information and documents is […]

This can’t be what Gary Pruitt had in mind. A year after McClatchy bought Knight Ridder, shares of the Sacramento-based newspaper publisher are trading at their lowest price in a decade, closing at $24.75 Monday. That’s a decline of more than 50% since the deal was announced in March 2006; a 40% drop […]

Great markets trump all other factors for startup companies, even poor management and products, writes Marc Andreessen in his blog. The only thing that matters for success is getting to product/market fit, which means “being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market,” he writes.Andreessen’s blog is getting rave reviews for […]