James Finkelstein is rumored to have acquired the Thompson publishing Group.For years Richard E. Thompson's Thompson Publishing Group Inc. has been a major publisher in the areas of education, grantseeking, grants management, employee benefits, wage and hour, leave and disability retirement plans, employment law, environmental compliance, energy law, food and drug regulation, finance and securities regulation, health care, and cable service. Such a diversified publishing portfolio was helped in part by Thompson's 1997 acquisition of Government Information Services See Information Systems. and Education Funding Research Council from James J. Marshall, who is now NL/NL's senior correspondent. This month Thompson reportedly sold the company he founded in 1972 to James A. Finkelstein, but efforts to reach either Finkelstein or Thompson about the acquisition, which has not been formally announced, were unsuccessful. The acquisition would strongly diversify Finkelstein's already formidable presence in Washington, D.C. as the publisher of The Hill, an influential newspaper in the U.S. political arena. Finkelstein's News Communications Inc. owns The Hill in a partnership with Hollinger International Inc., one of the world's largest newspaper chains, chaired by Canadian-born and now Lord Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier, newspaper magnate, and biographer. . Finkelstein, variously and affectionately af·fec·tion·ate adj. 1. Having or showing fond feelings or affection; loving and tender. 2. Obsolete Inclined or disposed. af·fec called Jimmy or Jim, has an impressive publishing background, which began while he was a student at New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the working for his father, Jerry Finkelstein, publisher of the venerable New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Law Journal--founded in 1888--as well as a number of New York-area newspapers. In the late 1970s, as president of The New York Law Publishing Company, the younger Finkelstein founded The National Law Journal. A 1998 press release announcing the sale of NLJ NLJ National Law Journal NLJ National Liberty Journal NLJ Nested Loop Join to American Lawyer Media ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media), is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal and real estate communities. ALM owns and publishes 33 national and regional magazines and newspapers focused on the legal and real estate communities, including Inc. said it was Finkelstein's "vision, accompanied by occasional yelling and arm-waving, that eventually produced the largest legal newspaper in the country." Thompson Publishing Group, 1725 K St. NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20006, 202-872-4000, fax 202-296-1091, www.thompson.com |
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