Hearst Tower, in September 2006

The Hearst Corporation is an American mass media group based in the Hearst Tower, Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media. The Hearst family is involved in the ownership and management of the company.

Hearst is one of the largest diversified communications companies in the world. Its major interests include 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, and more than 300 magazines around the world, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, ELLE and O: The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations through Hearst Television Inc. which reach a combined 18% of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including A+E Networks, and ESPN Inc.; as well as business publishing, Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

Trustees of William Randolph Hearst's will[link]

Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of 13 trustees (its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns (and selects the 18-member board of) the Hearst Corporation. The foundations shared ownership until tax law changed to prevent this. As of 2009, the trustees are:

• Frank A. Bennack Jr., vice chairman and chief executive of the corporation^[1]
• Anissa Bouadjakdji Balson, granddaughter of David Whitmire Hearst Sr.
• John G. Conomikes, director & former executive
• Ronald J. Doerfler, senior vice president and a board member of Hearst Corporation
• George Randolph Hearst Jr., chairman of Hearst Corporation
• Virginia Hearst Randt, daughter of late former chairman Randolph Apperson Hearst
• William Randolph Hearst III, grandson of William Randolph Hearst
• Harvey L. Lipton, lawyer and former vice president and secretary of the Corporation
• Gilbert C. Maurer, former head of Hearst Magazines, then executive vice president and chief operating officer under Bennack, now a consultant
• Mark F. Miller, former executive vice president of Hearst Magazines
• David J. Barrett, president and chief executive officer of Hearst Television Inc.^[2]
• James M. Asher, chief legal and development officer of Hearst
• Lisa Hearst Hagerman, great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst

The trust dissolves when all family members alive at the time of Hearst's death in August 1951 have died. Actuarial tables have put the mean value for the date at 2042 or 2043.^[3]

History[link]

George Hearst (1820-1891), American publisher and U.S. senator, entered the newspaper business in 1880, acquiring the San Francisco Daily Examiner. Seven years later, he turned the Examiner over to his son, 23-year-old William Randolph Hearst.

On March 4, 1887, William Randolph Hearst became editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and transformed the sedate Examiner into "The Monarch of the Dailies." He acquired the most advanced printing equipment of his day, substantially revised the newspaper’s appearance and hired the best journalists he could find. He pushed his staff to write exciting news stories, and wrote editorials worded with force and conviction that enlivened the paper. Within a few years, the new Examiner was a success.

In 1895, Hearst purchased the New York Journal, laying the foundation for one of the major newspaper dynasties in American history. By the 1920s, Hearst, was the owner of a chain of newspapers from coast to coast. At one time, one in four Americans read a Hearst newspaper.

Hearst experimented with every aspect of newspaper publishing, from page layouts to editorial crusades. His newspapers introduced innovations such as multi-color presses, halftone photographs on newsprint, comic sections printed in color and wire syndication of news copy. Stories by Hearst correspondents from around the world were sold to other newspapers, giving rise to the Hearst International News Service, which later became part of United Press International.

Hearst Magazines was begun in 1903 with the publication of Motor magazine. Within the next 10 years, Hearst acquired several popular titles in 1905, starting with Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping in 1911. In 1929, Hearst along with movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer created Hearst Metrotone to produce newsreels shown in movie theatres filled with news footage shot around the world.

An ad asking automakers to place ads in Hearst chain, noting their circulation.

In the 1920s, Hearst owned many newspapers, some of which he closed. Nevertheless, the reach of his media was great at the time.

Hearst began acquiring radio stations in the 1920s, and in 1948, he became the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

William Hearst died in 1951, at age 88, and was succeeded by Richard E. Berlin as chief executive officer; Berlin had served as president of the company since 1943. Berlin retired in 1973, and Frank Massi, a longtime Hearst financial officer, served as president from 1973 to 1975, carrying out a financial reorganization followed by an expansion program in the late 1970s. John R. Miller, was Hearst president and chief executive officer from 1975 to 1979. ^[4]

On November 8, 1990, Hearst Corporation acquired the remaining 20% stake of ESPN Inc. from RJR Nabisco for a price estimated between $165 million and $175 million.^[5] The other 80% is owned by The Walt Disney Company since 1996.

In December 2003, Marvel Entertainment acquired Cover Concepts from Hearst Communications, Inc.^[6]

On August 27, 2009, A+E Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services.^[7][8]

In 2011, Hearst absorbed more than 100 magazine titles from the Lagardere group for more than $700 million and became a challenger of Time Inc ahead of Condé Nast.

Assets[link]

A non-exhaustive list of its properties and investments includes:

Magazines

• Car and Driver
• Cosmopolitan
• Country Living
• ELLE
• Elle Decor
• Esquire
• Good Housekeeping
• Harper's Bazaar
• House Beautiful
• Marie Claire
• O, The Oprah Magazine
• Popular Mechanics
• Redbook
• Road & Track
• Seventeen
• Town & Country
• Veranda
• Woman's Day
• Nat Mags

Newspapers

• San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California)
• The News-Times (Danbury, Connecticut)
• Greenwich Time (Greenwich, Connecticut)
• The Advocate (Stamford) (Stamford, Connecticut)
• Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
• Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, Illinois)
• Huron Daily Tribune (Bad Axe, Michigan)
• Midland Daily News (Midland, Michigan)
• Times Union (Albany, New York)
• Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Texas)
• Houston Chronicle (Houston, Texas)
• Laredo Morning Times (Laredo, Texas)
• Midland Reporter-Telegram (Midland, Texas)
• Plainview Daily Herald (Plainview, Texas)
• San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas)
• seattlepi.com, formerly the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Washington)

Weekly Newspapers

• Darien News (Connecticut)
• Fairfield Citizen (Connecticut)
• Greenwich Citizen (Connecticut)
• New Canaan News (Connecticut)
• New Milford Spectrum (Connecticut)
• Norwalk Citizen (Connecticut)
• Westport News (Connecticut)
• Marlette Leader (Michigan)
• Vassar Pioneer Times (Michigan)
• Advertiser North (New York)
• Advertiser South (New York)
• Ballston Spa Pennysaver (New York)
• Clifton Park North Pennysaver (New York)
• Clifton Park South Pennysaver (New York)
• Latham Pennysaver (New York)
• Pennysaver News (New York)
• Spa City Moneysaver (New York)
• The Weekly (New York)
• Bulverde Community News (Texas)
• Business Express (Texas)
• Canyon News (Texas)
• Conexión (Texas)
• Hardin County News (Texas)
• Jasper Newsboy (Texas)
• Kelly USA Observer (Texas)
• La Voz (Texas)
• Lackland Talespinner (Texas)
• Fort Sam Houston News Leader (Texas)
• Medical Patriot (Texas)
• Muleshoe Journal (Texas)
• Neighborhood News (Texas)
• North Central News (Texas)
• Northwest Weekly (Texas)
• Our People (Texas)
• Randolph Wingspread (Texas)
• Northeast Herald (Texas)
• Southside Reporter (Texas)
• The Zapata Times (Texas)

Television and Cable (investments)

• A+E Networks (owns 42.5%; a shared joint venture with The Walt Disney Company and NBCUniversal)
• ESPN Inc. (owns 20%; shared with Disney, which owns the other 80%)
• Hearst Television Inc. (owner of 29 local television stations and two local radio stations)

Internet

• 1UP.com
• GameTab.com
• GameVideos.com
• MyCheats.com
• UGO
• Answerology
• Kaboodle
• eCrush
• RealAge
• seattlepi.com (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Delish.com
• RealBeauty.com

Other

• CDS Global
• First Data Bank
• iCrossing
• King Features Syndicate
• Map of Medicine
• LocalEdge (Buffalo, New York)
• Zynx Health
• Fitch Ratings (50% owned with the other 50% owned by FIMALAC)

Antitrust allegations[link]

On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. (owner of the San Francisco Chronicle) and MediaNews Group (owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U.S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to "offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling^[9] forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.

On December 21, 2006, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and nonprofit Media Alliance filed suit to make the details of Reilly's lawsuit—and MediaNews and the Chronicle's response—public.^[10] As a result of the filing, many documents in the case were voluntarily disclosed by the defendants. The judge allowed redacted versions of two more documents to be released. She kept 17 others under seal. One of the documents unsealed was the deposition of Hearst's Asher, who says that as of September 2006, his company had recorded cumulative losses of $330 million on its investment in the Chronicle,^[11] which it acquired in mid-2000. He said Hearst proposed selling the Chronicle to MediaNews, but MediaNews didn't offer enough money. Asher also said Hearst and MediaNews have discussed working together for years. Although the trial was scheduled to start Monday, April 30, 2007 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco,^[12] the parties announced on April 25, 2007 that a settlement had been reached.^[13]

See also[link]

• Newsboys Strike of 1899

References[link]

External links[link]

• "A brief history of the Hearst Corporation" (pdf). http://www.hearst.com/files/hearst-timeline-november-2011.pdf. Retrieved January 25, 2012. 
• Hearst Corporation home page
• The Hearst Foundation, Inc.
• Hearst Magazines Subscription Center

Susan Schulz has been the editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL! magazine since July 2003.^[1] She is no longer the editor-in-chief because the CosmoGirl! print magazine has been shut down by Hearst, however she has been reassigned to special projects at the company. As of 2010, she has been given the job of Editorial Brand Manager for Cosmopolitan magazine.

References[link]

1. ^ Editor-in-Chief - CosmoGIRL!

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S. Carey is the moniker of musician Sean Carey of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Carey is best known as the drummer and supporting vocalist of indie folk band Bon Iver. In August 2010, Carey released his first solo album, All We Grow, which he began working on in 2008 during hiatuses from performing with the band.^[1]

Comparisons have been drawn between Carey's harmonies and those of Brian Wilson in his 2004 album Smile.^[2] His music has also been likened to that of Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, José González, Steve Reich, and Talk Talk.^[2][3][4]

Background[link]

Sean Carey grew up in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. As the child of a singer and a music teacher, Carey has been immersed in music his entire life.^[5] He was raised listening to James Taylor, The Beach Boys, and Bruce Hornsby. At the age of ten he learned to play the drums and developed a deep love of jazz percussion after hearing his oldest sister perform in the middle school jazz band.^[5][6]

In 2007, Carey graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire with a performance degree in classical percussion.^[1][7] That same year, upon hearing through mutual friends that Justin Vernon was planning on forming a band (Bon Iver), Carey listened to For Emma, Forever Ago on MySpace until he had learned all the songs. Said Carey:

After singing a few songs backstage, Vernon and Carey realized how good their voices sounded together. Vernon asked Carey to play the show with him that night, and officially signed him to the band later that same evening.^[6][7]

Solo career and debut album[link]

Carey's solo career came about semi-accidentally. After each month-long stint of touring with Bon Iver, Carey would return to Eau Claire for three weeks. During his time at home, Carey would record songs and experiment with layering sounds together.^[1][5]

Carey recorded most of the music on All We Grow by himself with few exceptions. Jeremy Boettcher (bass), Nick Ball (guitar), and Bon Iver bandmate Mike Noyce (viola) played a large percentage of the music that Carey could not. Sean's sister Shannon Carey provided background vocals on two tracks, and Aaron Hedenstrom and Chris Thompson provided miscellaneous musical support.^[8]

The song "In The Dirt" appears in the last scene of the episode The Dig from the Season 7 of the TV series House M.D.^[9] and also in the last scene of the episode What Went Wrong from season 3 of the TV series The Good Wife.

Tour[link]

From September 8 to October 3, 2010, S. Carey toured North America with Swedish folk singer Kristian Matsson, otherwise known as The Tallest Man On Earth. During that time, the group performed fourteen times in Vancouver, Washington, California, Arizona, Texas, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC.^[10] When asked what it was like touring with Matsson, Carey responded:

S. Carey performed at CMJ 2010, and was considered "the most buzzed-about act of the day."^[11] He spent much of early summer 2011 opening for David Bazan before joining the Bon Iver tour as band director and one of two drummers.

Discography[link]

• All We Grow (2010)
• Hoyas EP(2012)

References[link]

• Not to be confused with Katie White

Kate White is the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine. She is the author of the best-selling Bailey Weggins mystery novels (Lethally Blond, Over Her Dead Body, 'Til Death Do Us Part, A Body to Die For, If Looks Could Kill), for which she has received critical acclaim. ^[1]In addition she has published three non-fiction books, including 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want, and Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead But Gutsy Girls Do. She recently released her first thriller, the New York Times bestselling "Hush." ^[2]

White was born and raised in Glens Falls, New York.^[3] She graduated from Union College in 1972, ^[4] and while at the college Kate was part of the first coed class at the college, as well as a Mouseketeer in the musical Disnetia ^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Kate White Official Website
• Kate White's Speakers Bureau

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Cathie Black
Black in 2010.
New York City School Chancellor
In office January 1, 2011 – April 7, 2011
Appointed by	Michael Bloomberg
Preceded by	Joel Klein
Succeeded by	Dennis Walcott
Personal details
Born	Chicago, Illinois
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Trinity College (B.A.)

Cathleen Prunty "Cathie" Black (born April 26, 1944)^[1] is a former New York City Schools Chancellor. On April 7, 2011, Black stepped down from her position after 95 days on the job.^[2] Her appointment to replace longtime Chancellor Joel Klein was announced on November 9, 2010 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg^[3] and became effective on January 3, 2011. Ms. Black required a waiver to replace Klein, as she did not possess the education administration experience required by New York State's Education Department. She was replaced by New York City Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott.

Black was previously chairman of Hearst Magazines, a division of Hearst Corporation, where she was also president for 15 years. ^[4] Hearst Magazines publishes 20 titles in the U.S., including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, ELLE and O, The Oprah Magazine, and more than 300 editions around the world. She is also the author of BASIC BLACK and is a former president and publisher of USA Today.^[5]

Early life and education[link]

Black was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 26, 1944, to James Hamilton and Margaret (née Harrington) Black.^[1] She holds a degree from Trinity College (class of 1966)^[6] in Washington, DC, and 10 honorary degrees from: ^[7] St. Mary's College, South Bend, Ind.; Capitol College, Laurel, Md.; Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y.; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.; Simmons College, Boston, Mass.; Trinity Washington University, Washington, D.C.; Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.; Marymount College, Tarrytown, N.Y.; Loyola University, New Orleans, La. and Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.^[8]

Business career[link]

Black began her career at Holiday Magazine, went on to work at New York Magazine, City magazine, Ms. Magazine and eventually return to New York Magazine as publisher, the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine.^[9]

She later worked for USA Today starting in 1983, the year after it was launched.^[8] She served as both president and publisher of USA Today, spending eight years at the newspaper. Black was also a board member and executive vice president/marketing of Gannett, its parent company. ^[10]

As President and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America from 1991 to 1996,^[11] Black, along with newspaper industry leaders on the NAA Board, conceived of the idea of a national newspaper network to stimulate demand from major national advertisers. Black oversaw Newspaper National Network’s founding, raised funding, and hired the first management team.^[12]

Black became president of Hearst Magazines in 1996.^[8] She was president of Hearst Magazines until 2010, when she became chairman.^[13] During her tenure at Hearst Magazines, the company expanded to publish 200 editions around the globe, launched O, The Oprah Magazine and Food Network Magazine, formed COMAG MARKETING GROUP (CMG) with Condé Nast and acquired the assets of Gruner+Jahr U.K., Seventeen, Veranda magazine and iCrossing, a digital marketing agency. ^[14]

She has been a member of the board of directors of IBM and The Coca-Cola Company, Hearst Corporation, Advertising Council, United Way of America and Gannett Co. Inc. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations ^[15]

She is also on the National Leadership Board of Harlem Village Academies and a Trustee of the University of Notre Dame. ^[16]

In Black's nearly 20 years on the Coke board and on "a company committee that focused on policy issues including obesity and selling soda to children," Bloomberg and others opposed the company and other manufacturers' sales efforts in schools. Black resigned her position on the Coke board after the NYC nomination, citing potential conflicts of interest. She was paid over $2 million in cash and stock over her tenure on the board, and still owns over $3 million worth of company stock. The mayor reiterated both the school policy against soda sales and his support for Black when the subject was raised after the nomination. Donald McHenry, "a longtime Coke board member and a professor at Georgetown University who sat on the committee" with Black, confirmed that the issue had faced the board continuously but did not address Black's position or individual role in the internal company debates, decisions and actions.^[17]

Schools chancellor[link]

As chancellor, Black was head of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, which serves more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools. She resigned, after much controversy, on April 7, 2011.

Controversy[link]

Having neither three years of teaching experience nor a master's degree nor a professional degree in educational management, Black required a waiver from the New York State Education Department under Education Commissioner David M. Steiner.^[6] The waiver was granted by Steiner, with Black's shortfall in formal qualifications "offset by the appointment of a chief academic officer to serve by her side [as well as her] 'exceptional record of successfully leading complex organizations and achievement of excellence in her endeavors.'" Black appointed Shael Polakow-Suransky to the academic-officer role, and assumed her post January 1, 2011.^[18] Steiner announced his own resignation the very same afternoon, but did not disclose any reason. Before her appointment was approved, Bloomberg's office announced supporters of his choice included former Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch, State Senator Malcolm Smith, City Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera. Oprah Winfrey has also publicly supported Black as the chancellor.^[19]

After taking office, Black upset parents on January 14, 2011, when responding to a question from a parent about overcrowded classrooms in New York City by jokingly suggesting that the solution to future overcrowding may be birth control.^[20] Black also said at the same meeting that making decisions about satisfying classroom space concerns is like making "many Sophie's Choices" – a reference to a novel in which a mother is forced to choose which of her children is killed at Auschwitz concentration camp.^[20] A spokesman for the Department of Education later said Black cares about overcrowding, and "regrets if she left a different impression by making an off-handed joke in the course of that conversation."^[20]

As Schools Chancellor, Black presided over meetings on February 1 and February 3, 2011, to close 22 schools that the City classified as failing. Towards the end of the meeting on February 1, Black spoke to the crowd of parents. At that meeting Black told the crowd "I can't speak if you're shouting," and after the crowd continued to boo Black, she responded by imitating the crowd's jeers in a "mocking" fashion.^[21][22][23] As a result, at the following meeting on February 3, Black was booed by parents and criticized by members of the New York City Council.^[21]

Personal[link]

Black has been married since 1982 to Thomas E. Harvey, an attorney, and has two children.^[1][8]

Bibliography[link]

Black, Cathie P. (2007). Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life). Crown Business. ISBN 0-307-35110-6. 

BASIC BLACK reached No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal Business Books list (Nov. 6, 2007) and Business Week best-seller list (Jan. 3, 2008), and No. 3 on the New York Times Business Books List (Nov. 11, 2007). The book has been licensed for translated editions in 12 countries including China, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Russia, Korea, Poland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Romania and Croatia. The paperback edition debuted Sept. 9, 2008.^[24]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bloomberg Taps Wealthy Media Exec to Replace Joel Klein as NYC School Chief - video report by Democracy Now!