Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Arthur Hochstein, Billy Powers, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...millions of dollars in the Free Press and had never before folded any of its papers. Thus, Needelman concluded, "I have assigned little weight to this threat." But last week, less than a month after Needelman issued his report to Attorney General Edwin Meese recommending against the controversial J.O.A., Chapman pursued his threat further. Emerging from a Detroit meeting of the 17-member Knight-Ridder board, he solemnly announced that the 157-year-old Free Press will stop publishing unless the Attorney General approves the plan...
...Attorney General, Knight-Ridder is gambling that Meese will have no choice but to save the paper. To up the odds, the company has launched an all-out public relations blitz designed to win over local opponents and to sway Meese. After last week's board meeting, Chapman scheduled private meetings with leaders of the paper's unions and Mayor Coleman Young, who has already hinted that he may abandon his opposition to the plan. Free Press Publisher David Lawrence triggered a ground swell of support with a front-page editorial asking readers to write in what they would miss...
...while Chapman is pleading near bankruptcy, one of his own memos (to Gannett Chairman Al Neuharth) included in Needelman's report makes a strong case that the Free Press should receive an equal share of the J.O.A.'s future earnings. "The Detroit Free Press is a well managed newspaper with a loyal readership base and a proven and continuing capacity to expand its reach," Chapman wrote, before listing several favorable statistics not usually associated with failing newspapers...
...will face the thorny choice of flouting the recommendations of his staff or being blamed for the death of a venerable American institution. Either way, Meese will not question the seriousness of Knight-Ridder's threat. Says Free Press Executive Editor Heath Meriwether: "Anyone who has looked at Alvah Chapman's record knows that he's not the sort who bluffs...