Sun-Times Media Group
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Sun-Times Media Group (until recently Hollinger International) NYSE: SVN is the holding company of a Chicago based newspaper group. Thirty percent (and 78% of the voting share) of the group is owned by Canadian based Hollinger Inc. - an 84% controlling stake is owned by controversial Canadian businessman Conrad Black through his Ravelston Corporation. He attempted to sell this stake to the Barclay brothers in January 2004 and the brothers launched a takeover bid for the rest of Hollinger International. However the sale was blocked by a judge in the United States after the company's board lodged a court action against the sale.
The Barclay brothers later bought The Telegraph Group which included The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Spectator. On November 16, 2004 the sale of The Jerusalem Post to Mirkaei Tikshoret, a Tel Aviv-based publisher of Israeli newspapers, was announced. CanWest Global Communications, Canada's biggest media concern, announced it has agreed to take a 50 percent stake in The Jerusalem Post after Mirkaei buys the property. In February, 2006, Hollinger sold substantially all of its Canadian assets.[1] The corporation's name was changed to Sun-Times Media Group on July 17, 2006.[2]
Assets now include the Chicago Sun-Times in the United States, and various suburban and neighborhood newspapers in the Chicago area, including the Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana, the Pioneer Press group, the Daily Southtown, the Beacon News-Sun Publications group in the Aurora-Naperville area, The Star (Tinley Park), and the Lake County News Sun. It also owns the Centerstage Chicago entertainment site.
[edit] Sun-Times Newspapers
| State | City | Newspaper |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois | Algonquin | Algonquin Countryside |
| Antioch | Antioch Review | |
| Arlington Heights | Arlington Heights Post | |
| Barrington | Barrington Courier-Review | |
| Batavia | The Batavia Sun | |
| Aurora | The Beacon News | |
| Bolingbrook | The Bolingbrook Sun | |
| Buffalo Grove | Buffalo Grove Countryside | |
| Calument City | Calument City Star | |
| Cary-Grove | Cary-Grove Countryside | |
| Chicago Heights | Chicago Heights Star | |
| Chicago Ridge | Chicago Ridge Star | |
| Chicago | Chicago Sun-Times | |
| Clarendon Hills | The Clarendon Hill's Doings | |
| Elgin | The Courier News | |
| Tinley Park | The Daily Southtown | |
| Deerfield | Deerfield Review | |
| Des Plaines | Des Plaines Times | |
| Hinsdale | The Doings - Hinsdale | |
| La Grange | The Doings - La Grange | |
| Oak Brook | The Doings - Oak Brook | |
| Downers Grove | The Downers Grove Sun | |
| Park Ridge | Edgebrook Times Review | |
| Chicago | Edison-Norwood Times Review | |
| Des Plaines | Elk Grove Village Times | |
| Elmwood Park | Elm Leaves | |
| Elmhurst | The Elmhurst Doings | |
| Evanston | Evanston Review | |
| River Forest | Forest Leaves | |
| Fox Valley | The Fox Valley Shopping News | |
| Franklin Park | Franklin Park Herald Journal | |
| Geneva | The Geneva Sun | |
| Glen Ellyn | The Glen Ellyn Sun | |
| Glencoe | Glencoe News | |
| Glenview | Glenview Announcements | |
| Grayslake | Grayslake Review | |
| Gurnee | Gurnee Review | |
| Chicago | Harlem-Irving Times | |
| Hazel Crest | Hazel Crest Country Club Hills Star | |
| Joliet | The Herald News | |
| Highland | Highland Park News | |
| Hoffman Estates | Hoffman Estates Review | |
| Plainfield | The Homer Sun | |
| Lake Forest | Lake Forester | |
| Countryside | Lake in the Hills Countryside | |
| Lake Villa | Lake Villa Review | |
| Lake Zurich | Lake Zurich Courier | |
| Libertyville | Libertyville Review | |
| Lincolnshire | Lincolnshire Review | |
| Plainfield | The Lincoln-Way Sun | |
| Lincolnwood | Lincolnwood Review | |
| Lisle | The Lisle Sun | |
| Maywood | Maywood Herald | |
| Melrose Park | Melrose Park Herald | |
| Morton Grove | Morton Grove Champion | |
| Mount Prospect | Mount Prospect Times | |
| Mundelein | Mundelein Review | |
| Naperville | The Naperville Sun | |
| Lake County | The News Sun | |
| Niles | Niles Herald-Spectator | |
| Northbrook | Northbrook Star | |
| Northlake | Northlake Herald | |
| Oak Park | Oak Leaves | |
| Palatine | Palatine Countryside | |
| Palos Park | Palos Area Star | |
| Park Ridge | Park Ridge Herald Advocate | |
| Plainfield | The Plainfield Sun | |
| River Grove | River Grove Messenger | |
| Rolling Meadows | Rolling Meadows Review | |
| Schaumburg | Schaumburg Review | |
| Skokie | Skokie Review | |
| Chicago | Skyline | |
| St. Charles | The St. Charles Sun | |
| Tinley Park | Tinley Park Star | |
| Vernon Hills | Vernon Hills Review | |
| Wauconda | Wauconda Courier | |
| Burr Ridge | The Weekly Doings | |
| Westchester | Westchester Herald | |
| Western Springs | The Western Springs Doings | |
| Wheaton | The Wheaton Sun | |
| Wheeling | Wheeling Countryside | |
| Wilmette | Wilmette Life | |
| Winnetka | Winnetka Talk | |
| Indiana | Merrillville, (Gary) | The Post-Tribune |
[edit] Corporate governance
October 2005
- Gordon A. Paris Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
- Paul B. Healy Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations
- Peter K. Lane Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
- Robert T. Smith Treasurer
- James R. Van Horn Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
- John Cruickshank Chief Operating Officer, Head of the Chicago Group
Current members of the board of directors of the corporation are: Gordon Paris, Richard Burt, Daniel Colson, Cyrus Freidhelm, Henry Kissinger, Shmuel Meitar, John O'Brien, Richard Perle, Graham Savage, Raymond Seitz, and James R. Thompson.
[edit] External links
- Sun-Times Media Group official site
- Hollinger Inc. official site
- Suburban Chicago News site, including the Aurora Beacon News, Naperville Sun and Sun Group, Joliet Herald News, and Lake County News Sun
- Guardian Unlimited Special Report - Conrad Black, Hollinger and the Telegraph Ongoing archive collection of news and analysis.
- Ketupa.net - Media Profiles: Hollinger, Black & the Barclays Extensive background information, including past and present media holdings.
- U.S. SEC - Breeden Report Complete 512-page copy of the Report of Investigation by the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Hollinger International Inc.
