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#1308990 at 2018-05-05 17:25:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1641: DOWN GOES CORSI! DOWN GOES CORSI! DOWN GOES CORSI!

top three senior editors at the Denver Post resigned today

DENVER (AP) - Three top figures at The Denver Post, including its former owner, resigned Friday amid budget and staff cuts made by the newspaper's New York-based hedge fund owners.

Several Post reporters tweeted that Dean Singleton had stepped down as chairman and from his position on the editorial board. He owned the newspaper from 1987 until 2013 and saw it through tough economic times and an intense rivalry with the Rocky Mountain News.

"I once told people I wanted The Post to be one of the 10 best newspapers in America, and I think we achieved that," Singleton said in an interview published in the newspaper in October.


Senior editors Dana Coffield and Larry Ryckman also resigned Friday.

"I'm sad to leave, but it was time to go. I will be rooting for those still fighting the good fight," Ryckman tweeted.

The Post published an editorial on April 6 headlined "As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved," calling on Alden Global Capital to sell the newspaper after it cut 30 more positions in the newsroom, leaving it at a fraction of its size just a few years ago. Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett did not inform the newspaper's editor or owners of his intentions to publish the editorial.

He resigned Thursday after he said another piece critical of the company was rejected.

Alden owns a controlling interest in Digital First Media, which owns the Post.

Lee Ann Colacioppo, the Post's editor, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Friday night.

#114197 at 2018-01-21 16:43:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #137: Hold the Fort and Keep the Home Fires Burning Edition

Chuck Plunkett AND ANDREA HARTER
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Writer

Two twists of fate placed a former University of Arkansas track
athlete and an
Arkansas native who managed a Memphis insurance firm among the 230
people killed
on the ill-fated TWA flight that exploded Wednesday night over the
Atlantic.
Dan Gabor, 27, of Fayetteville, the former Razorbacks
middle-distance runner,
boarded the 747 jet with the last available ticket for Flight 800
bound for Paris, a
friend said.
The businessman, Charles Henry "Hank" Gray III of Memphis,
initially wanted to fly
to London from Hartford, Conn., but sped to New York after he missed
his flight
because his limousine driver took a wrong turn while going to the
Hartford airport. In
New York, Gray boarded the doomed flight.
Gray, president and chief operating officer of Midland Financial
Corp., was
scheduled to fly from Hartford to Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.,
on Wednesday
afternoon. He was to fly on from there to London to raise money for a
merger.
Elena Barham, Gray's secretary for 13 years, said her boss called
her at 5 p.m.
Wednesday and said the limousine driver had missed a turn in
Hartford, and Gray had
to drive to New York to catch another flight.
"He was waiting in the TWA lounge, saying how they had missed the
connection and
this was the best flight they could get," Barham said. She said that
after arriving in Paris,
Gray and other executives planned to board a plane for London for an
early morning
meeting.
She said the trip was the only international leg of a three-week
tour to raise $40
million in common stock at institutional banking houses. Gray was due
back today or
Saturday, she said.
Gray was the son of Charles Henry Gray II, chief federal probation
officer in Little
Rock.
"Knowing that it was a wrong turn that brought this on makes it
doubly hard," his
stepmother, Bequita Gray, said Thursday.
The elder Gray said his son was in Hartford to negotiate a merger
with Danielson
Holding Co., an insurance company in New York City.
Other executives traveling with Gray to promote the merger were
Danielson
President C. Kirk Rhein Jr.; William R. Story, president and chief
executive of
Danielson's main insurance subsidiary; and Gadi Notes, 29, an
investment banker with
Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette.
A spokesman for Danielson Holding declined to say what affect the
crash might
have on Danielson Holding's agreement to buy Midland Financial for
$78.2 million.
Gabor was a middle-distance runner who earned three letters in the
track program
at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Razorbacks track coach
John McDonnell
called Gabor's death a "horrible loss."
McDonnell said Gabor had been recruited from Plessanton High
School in Walnut
Creek, Calif.
Gabor, 27, had just received his master's degree in geology at the
university and was
on his way to Paris to visit Claire Phythian of England, who
graduated from the
university this summer.
McDonnell said Phythian was at the airport in Paris waiting for
Gabor when she
learned that the plane had crashed. TWA flew Phythian and Gabor's
mother, Amy W.
Gabor, and sister, Cathy, to New York on Thursday. Gray graduated
from the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a degree in business, his
father said. He had
worked as a certified public accountant with Peat Marwick & Mitchell
in Memphis
before joining Cook Industries and later Sedgwick Insurance Co.,
which has offices in
Memphis and Little Rock.
In the late 1980s, Gray, in association with Phillip Zanone,
formed Midland
Insurance, which went public in 1992.
"He was a brilliant businessman and the best friend anybody
could have," said Mack
Norton, an attorney with Wright Lindsey & Jennings in Little Rock.
Norton, former chairman of the Arkansas Public Service
Commission, is married to
Gray's sister, Gretchen.
"He had a lot of friends here in Little Rock and around the
state," Norton said.
Norton said Gray had two sons, Charles Henry Gray IV, who
recently left Midland
to join Schlagle Bagels, and Chad Gray, a junior at the University
of Arkansas. Gray
also is survived by another sister, Anne James of El Dorado. He
will be buried in Paris,
Ark.