BRIEFCASE MEDIANEWS CEO HEADS ASSOCIATION.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services NEW ORLEANS New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded - William Dean Singleton William Dean Singleton is the chairman of the board of directors of the Associated Press, on which he has sat since 1999. He is also the founder, vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews Group, the fourth-largest newspaper company in the United States in terms of , whose Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc. owns the Daily News, was elected chairman of the nation's leading newspaper publishers group, it announced Monday. Singleton, 50, vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews Group Inc., was elected chairman of the Newspaper Association of America The Newspaper Association of America is a United States trade association that represents the country's largest daily newspapers and provides services including market research, technology education and support, minority hiring and representing publishers in Washington, D.C. on Monday at the association's annual meeting. He officially takes over Wednesday at the closing session of this year's convention and will serve for one year. MediaNews publishes 49 daily newspapers and 94 nondaily publications. Singleton is also chairman and publisher of The Denver Post, the company's largest newspaper and chairman of the board of the Denver Newspaper Agency, publisher of The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. (Despite Scripps still running the paper, it's the only newspaper in the Scripps family not to have the corporate lighthouse logo on . The Newspaper Association of America is a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. representing the $59 billion newspaper industry and more than 2,000 newspapers in the United States Newspapers have declined in their influence and penetration into American households over the years. The U.S. does not have a national paper per se, although the influential dailies the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are sold in most U.S. cities. and Canada. Film Roman gains visual effects firm NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Film Roman, the animation company best known for its work on ``The Simpsons,'' announced plans on Monday to acquire visual-effects house VanHook Studios. The acquisition will provide Film Roman with the expertise and technology of VanHook Studios as well as complement Film Roman Digital. VanHook's addition will enhance all areas of Film Roman's animation production - television, commercials, feature films, special projects and music videos. The two entities are working on promos for ``Night Out on SHO TOO'' for the Showtime Networks. Film industry gets state jobs grant The Governor's Office announced a $250,000 jobs grant for the film industry Monday. ``Motion picture and television production is a $24 billion industry in Los Angeles County, but the stories we all hear about the starving actor (are) too often an unnecessary fact,'' Gov. Gray Davis said. ``The glamour and excitement of the performing arts cause people to overlook sustaining opportunities in other industry areas such as legal, hospitality, fashion, advertising and publishing.'' The Actors' Fund of America will administer the grant in cooperation with the Los Angeles County Local Workforce Investment Board Workforce Investment Boards (or "WIBs") are regional entities created to implement the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 in the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. . TRW's executives against buyout bid CLEVELAND - TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Inc. executives are again urging shareholders to reject Northrop Grumman Corp.'s buyout offer at a special shareholders meeting later this week. In a letter to shareholders on Monday, TRW Chairman Philip Odeen and Director Kenneth Freeman urged defeat of a referendum that would allow Northrop to buy up TRW shares. TRW shareholders will vote on the Northrop bid at Friday's meeting. Trigon will merge with Anthem Inc. RICHMOND, Va. - The managed health-care provider Trigon Healthcare Inc. said Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc. for about $4 billion in cash and stock. Both companies are former nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. providers that operate now as for-profit corporations and have a combined total of about 10 million members. The merged company would rank as the nation's fourth largest among publicly traded managed-care health insurance companies, according to Atlantic Information Services See Information Systems. , which tracks health care industry information. DuPont Textiles to cut jobs by 10% WILMINGTON, Del. - DuPont Textiles and Interiors will cut 2,000 jobs and take a second-quarter charge as part of a restructuring effort expected to save $120 million a year, DuPont announced Monday. More than two-thirds of the job cuts, which amount to about 10 percent of the company's work force, will be in manufacturing facilities and offices in the United States, with most of the remaining cuts in Europe. In the United States, DTI Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) A refinement of magnetic resonance imaging that allows the doctor to measure the flow of water and track the pathways of white matter in the brain. plans to shut down a manufacturing unit in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and parts of its spandex operation. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: SINGLETON |
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