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...aggressive newspaper chains last week announced plans for one of the largest mergers ever. If the deal is approved by stockholders and government agencies, the Knight Newspapers, with 16 dailies in the Midwest, East and South, will soon join forces with Ridder Publications, which owns 19 dailies and eight weeklies mostly in the West. The resulting Knight-Ridder Inc. would be a formidable enterprise. With 35 daily papers and a total circulation of 3,496,000, the combine would be within striking distance of the leading chain, the Chicago Tribune group; its seven papers, which include the Tribune...
...Herman Ridder, a German immigrant who acquired a German-language daily in New York in 1890; though Ridder owns the New York Journal of Commerce, its other properties are located in Western states. Says Bernard H. Ridder Jr., 57, who would continue to run the papers as a Knight-Ridder subsidiary: "The merger logic is simple. We have a good geographical fit, and there's no conflict in circulation...
Though Editorial Chairman John Knight no longer writes his Pulitzer Prize winning column of political and social commentary every week, the two Knight brothers (who hold 47% of the chain's stock) are still active on the publishing side. Knight-Ridder's chairman and chief executive officer would be Lee Hills, 68, a North Dakota-born newspaper veteran who has been president of Knight since 1967. Hills aims to continue the editorial autonomy that has been traditional in both the Knight and the Ridder chains. "We don't think you can stamp newspapers out of cookie cutters...
...pork-belly plain compendium of business news; Colorado's folksy Boulder Daily Camera (circ. 22,380); and the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, which occasionally outshines its bigger Twin City sisters. In general, however, the Ridder papers do not have the heft and influence of the Knight dailies. Though the Knight brothers are both conservatives, the papers are what Hills describes as "central progressive." In the 1972 election six Knight papers endorsed Richard Nixon and two backed George McGovern; only two echoed John Knight's own position, which was that he would not support either candidate...
...reading Merle Miller's current bestseller Plain Speaking is Margaret Truman Daniel. Annoyed by Miller's publication of his conversations with her father, the late President Harry Truman, taped in 1961-62, Margaret has ignored the complimentary copy sent her by the publishers. Talking to Knight Newspapers Columnist Vera Glaser last week, Margaret said: "I don't like people riding my coattails," a reference to her own bestseller Harry S. Truman, which appeared in 1972. Her main objection: "Dad wrote Plain Speaking, not Miller. This man has just taken tapes and strung them together...