A skinny faxed copy of significant newspaper stories was handed to us every morning at breakfast.
"Paul's credentials as editor-in-chief are exemplary and his leadership will affirm the Australian's place as the nation's most significant newspaper," Miller and Tonagh said.
Scripps and McClatchy had been hit particularly hard by the real estate downturn in Florida and California, where both companies own significant newspaper assets.
"I think that the fact that The Post is a globally significant newspaper is, in itself, an asset to any purchaser".
His first significant newspaper acquisition was a stake in APN News & Media in 1988, which at the time had 14 daily and 50 community and weekly titles that served Australia and New Zealand, two markets that had been very successful for Heinz.
In fact, among the Big Five conglomerates, only News Corp. has significant newspaper holdings, and that's only because Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch began his career as a newspaperman before branching out into film and television.
It later absorbed the competing afternoon paper The Spokane Daily Chronicle, a significant newspaper historically which had existed from 1890 until the merger in 1982.
This is significant because newspapers largely try to anticipate their readers' interests, and so the silence reflects an impression that the door of the house is closing.
"Having said that, the British government does have the power to look into the Lebedevs before giving its blessing to his ownership of significant British newspapers, and we think it should," Mr. Rusbridger said.
