Gary Pruitt
Gary Pruitt
Gary B. Pruittis the President and CEO of the Associated Press and was the CEO, president, and chairman of the board of the McClatchy Company...
best community mass medium reflect relevant serve
We're a mass medium ... The best way to be relevant is to reflect the community and serve it well.
breaking business continuous news puts
This puts us back in the breaking news business and back into the continuous news mode.
albeit anybody audience audiences fragmented holding last local mass onto slowly
Our local competitors have fragmented audiences. As a result, we're the last mass medium. We're holding onto that audience better than anybody else, albeit it's slipping slowly each year.
hear newspapers wisdom
I know what the conventional wisdom is. We hear it all the time: Newspapers are dead. That's all we hear. ... That's just wrong, it really is wrong.
able tough advertising
We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,.
sunday weekend years
Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.
views trends december
Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.
real government talking
It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.
possible
It's possible that (contract farming) could go another year.
expect further high quality sustain
These are high quality papers, they're doing well, and we expect to sustain and further their journalism.
advertising economic economy-and-economics growing growth leg lift markets quicker retaining rising tends tide
The markets we're retaining have a leg up. They are growing at a quicker rate, and with that economic growth comes more readers, more advertisers. The rising tide tends to lift all ships.
advertising biggest local sales
You've got the biggest newsroom, the biggest advertising sales staff, the biggest local presence.
expect robust site web
I think you can expect a more robust and interactive Web site here at The Herald.
break design ground next park year
I think the best-case scenario, we will design the park next year and break ground on park construction in 2007,