Thursday, April 24, 2008

Questions for Overby at his Press Club talk today

Freedom Forum CEO (and former top Gannett executive!) Charles Overby (left) talks to the National Press Club today about the non-profit foundation's newly opened Newseum in Washington, D.C. I won't be there for his 12:30 p.m. ET address, so I can't ask him questions that the foundation has refused to answer for weeks now:
  • Why he's moonlighting for a for-profit prison chain with a vested business interest in a weaker federal Freedom of Information Act.
  • What foundation founder and retired Gannett CEO Al Neuharth, 84, did for his $225,000 in salary and $200,545 expense account in 2006.

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  1. This is from the Gannett earnings transcript. Dubow says, that we will do the same things that you want us to do. CUT COSTS. There is nothing INNOVATIVE about that! Sounds like Martore is at it again! Who is running this company?

    "Meanwhile, in the midst of the transformation and the economy, we are continuing to manage the company in a way that you have come to expect from us. We are finding new ways to achieve efficiency and change our cost structure, in some cases through centralization and outsourcing."

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