But some experts in newspaper antitrust law predict that the proposed Free Press-News joint operating agreement, known in the industry as a j.o.a., will prompt a fierce legal challenge.
Over the past few weeks, Goldman's new joint chief operating officers, John Thain and John Thornton, have been touring Goldman's world offices partly, no doubt, to prepare the partners for a March 8th vote on the flotation.
The Gannett Company and the owner of The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Liberty Newspapers L.P., have settled on new terms to end their joint operating agreement by Dec. 31 if the newspaper is sold.
All of this played out to the utter glee of the city's other daily, The Rocky Mountain News, which recently entered a joint operating agreement with The Post.
Yet ownership of the new joint company that will build and operate Europe's new blue-chip exchange will be split down the middle.That fact caused alarm in London needlessly, because the alliance exposes the myth that the battle between Europe's stock exchanges is a barometer of the fortunes of their financial centres.
Mr. Hunke leaves Detroit at a time when the two local papers — The Free Press and The Detroit News, which share resources in a joint operating agreement — recently decided to drop home delivery on certain days.
Annual operating costs at the new joint airport are estimated to amount to about NOK 62 million.
For years there has been a deep struggle between The Tribune and its Mormon-owned partner in a joint operating agreement, The Deseret News.
In 1989, following the approval of the U.S. attorney general, the papers' advertising, business, production, and circulation departments were combined under a joint operating agreement (JOA) into a new company, the Detroit Newspaper Agency, owned equally by Knight Ridder and Gannett.
It also contends that MediaNews will harm The Tribune by changing its joint operating agreement with The Deseret News, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
