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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$4.3B
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The Hearst Corporation is one of the nation's largest diversified communications companies. Its major interests include 12 daily and 30 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, and Albany Times Union; nearly 200 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations through Hearst-Argyle Television which reach a combined 18% of U.S. viewers; joint venture interests in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, The History Channel and ESPN; as well as business publishing, including a joint venture interest in Fitch Group; Internet businesses; television production; newspaper features distribution; and real estate.
President & CEO, Hearst-Argyle Television
David J. BarrettNumber of Employees 20,000
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NAICS Code Television Broadcasting: 515120
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Hearst inks chat deal with Meebo
Strategy Eye
- 2008-11-14
Hearst is adding instant-messaging IM functions to some of its magazine sites, as part of a partnership with Meebo. The service has already debuted on technical magazine site PopularMechanics.com, registering 30,000 unique users in the first week, according to Hearst data. Meebo's chat rooms will also launch on Hearst's...
Hearst, King Features Syndicate Managing Editor Receives Fulbright Award
- 2008-07-29
NEW YORK & WASHINGTON -- Glenn Mott, Managing Editor and Director of Publishing at King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst Corporation, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to the United States Department...
Hearst Business Media and China Joint Venture Partner IDG Announce Acquisition of ee365.cn
- 2008-07-02
Hearst Business Media's Electronics Group, the largest publisher of product information to the electronics industry, along with joint venture partner China's Publishing House of Electronic Industry PHEI, and the International Data Group IDG today announced they have purchased ee365.cn [ www.ee365.cn ], a news and technology website for Chinese engineers....
Hearst, IDG & Chinese partner buy tech site
- 2008-07-01
Heart Business Media's Electronics Group (Uniondale, NY), a publisher of product information for the electronics industry, has entered into a partnership with IDG (Framingham, MA), the producer of hundreds of magazines and web sites for technology markets, and China's Publishing House of Electronic Industry (PHEI; Beijing), a publishing operation specializing...
Plain Spleak-ing: What's Next After Hearst Deal?
BNET
- 2008-04-17
Yesterday we analyzed the partnership between the giant Hearst Corp. and pipsqueak, Spleak. Today, I asked Spleak's CEO, Morrie Eisenberg to explain his product, which is part chat-bot, part web-widget, and a mashup tool for professional media content and user generated content to co-exist semi-peacefully. "Spleak...
Behind the Hearst-Spleak Mashup
BNET
- 2008-04-16
Mention the Hearst Corp. and it's tempting to think of a fading media empire, out of touch with new media, Web 2.0, etc. After all, this is the company that owns the San Francisco Chronicle, which has been sinking faster than the Titanic after it met its iceberg. ...
IBM collaborates with the Film Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television Archive on educational curriculums and film preservation; IBM's e-Infrastructure technology powers digital archive and educational portal aimed at teachers nationwide.
- 2003-06-25
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Media Men
- 2002-12-01
Byline: SARAH GONSER ENTREPRENEURS This probably isn't a big shocker, but among the undeniable truths about the publishing biz is that media types are obsessed with reading about ... well, other media types. Call it education, call it vanity, call it whatever. The bottom line is that there's...
Secrets of successful gift programs: Consumer marketers share their best advice for pumping up gifts, including Internet applications and new offers and ideas inspired by the changes in the audit rules
- 2002-03-01
Amazingly, given the events of this past fall, many circulators swear that gift subscriptions ended up on budget or flat this past year. But it's now time to gear up for this year's gift program. And with rate bases and circ margins strained more than ever, magazines are going to...
Opportunities, Questions Abound as Digital Magazines Become a Reality
- 2001-07-01
Publishers have been speculating about the potential of electronically delivered magazines practically since the day the first magazine page was digitized. But it's taken years for technology and the Internet user base to reach a point where digital magazines seemed a viable option. Now, systems that employ the Internet to...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| David J. Barrett | President & CEO, Hearst-Argyle Television |
| Duncan Edwards | President & Chief Executive Officer, Hearst Magazines International |
| Frank A. Bennack | Chief Executive Officer |
| Neeraj Khemlani | Vice President & Special Assistant to the CEO, Digital Media |
| Cathleen P. Black | President, Hearst Magazines |
| Kenneth A. Bronfin | President, Hearst Interactive Media |
| Richard P. Malloch | President, Hearst Business Media |
| Debra B. Shriver | Vice President & Chief Communications Officer |
| James M. Asher | Chief Legal and Development Officer & Senior Vice President |
| Roger P. Paschke | Chief Investment Officer |
| Ronald J. Doerfler | Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President |
| David L. Kors | Vice President, Taxes |
| Eve Burton | General Counsel & Vice President |
| Mark F. Miller | Vice President |
| Mark Hasson | Vice President, Finance |
| Paul J. Luthringer | Executive Director, Communications |
| George J. Green | Consultant |
| Scott M. Sassa | Senior Vice President |
| Steven R. Swartz | Senior Vice President & President, Hearst Newspapers |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| George R. Hearst | Chairman |
David Barrett is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange-listed company (NYSE: HTV). Prior to the August 1997 merger of Hearst Broadcasting and Argyle Television, Barrett was a Vice President of The Hearst Corporation and Deputy General Manager of Broadcasting, with operating oversight for the company’s television and radio stations, as well as its Boston-based production company. Barrett joined Hearst in 1984 as General Manager of its Baltimore radio stations, and subsequently became General Manager of WBAL-TV before relocating to New York in his corporate position in 1991. Barrett, a board member of Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. and The Hearst Corporation, is also a trustee of the trust established under the will of William Randolph Hearst and a director of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and The Hearst Foundation. He also serves on the boards of directors of Maximum Service Television, Inc. (MSTV), the Emma L. Bowen Foundation, the Broadcasters Foundation, the Television Operators Caucus (TOC), the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF). Barrett is a past Chairman of the Board of Governors for the ABC Television Affiliates Association and the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC II), and has previously served on the boards of directors of the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS), the Advertising Council, and Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. In 2004 he was named Broadcasting & Cable magazine’s “Broadcaster of the Year.” In October of 2005 he was the recipient of The Media Institute’s American Horizon Award and was also inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Management Hall of Fame. In 2008 he was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. | President & CEO | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | President & CEO, Hearst-Argyle Television | Current |
| Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Vice President | Former |
| Federal Communications Commission | chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | President & Chief Executive Officer, Hearst Magazines International | Current |
| Natmag - Rodale Limited | Chief Executive, The National Magazine Company Read More | Current |
| Hearst Magazines | Executive Vice President & President, Hearst Magazines International | Current |
| The National Magazine Company Ltd. | Vice Chairman | Current |
| The National Magazine Company Ltd. | Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director | Former |
Mr. Bennack has been a director of the Company since January 1998. In June 2008, Mr. Bennack resumed his former role as Chief Executive Officer of The Hearst Corporation, a position he will hold on an interim basis until a successor is named. Mr. Bennack has been the Chairman of the Executive Committee and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Hearst Corporation since 2002, after serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Hearst Corporation since 1979. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. and serves as the Chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Vice Chairman | Current |
| The Hearst Foundation, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation | Board Director | Current |
| Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Vice President & Special Assistant to the CEO, Digital Media | Current |
| ABC News, Inc. | Producer | Former |
| CBS Corporation | Producer, CBS News | Former |
| Imagine Entertainment | Creative Consultant | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | President, Hearst Magazines | Current |
| Hearst Magazines | President | Current |
| University of Notre Dame | Trustee | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| International Business Machines Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Coca-Cola Company | Board of Directors | Current |
| Council on Foreign Relations | Member | Current |
| Magazine Publishers of America | President & CEO | Former |
| Newspaper Association of America | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Newspaper Association of America | President | Former |
| USA TODAY | President | Former |
| Gannett Co., Inc. | Executive Vice President, Marketing | Former |
| The Hearst Corporation | Senior Vice President | Former |
| USA TODAY | Publisher | Former |
| iVillage Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
| Trinity College | B.A. | Former |
Kenneth A. Bronfin, 48, President of Hearst Interactive Media (the interactive media division of diversified media company Hearst Corporation) since 2002. Prior thereto, Deputy Group Head of Hearst Interactive Media since 1996. (Biographical Information as of April 9, 2008)
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | President, Hearst Interactive Media | Current |
| Hearst Interactive Media | President | Current |
| Aether - Ham Radio Logging | Current | |
| SCENE7, Inc. | Director | Current |
| E Ink Corporation | Director | Current |
| Hasbro, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| FREE411 | Board of Directors | Current |
| Circles, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| National Broadcasting Company, Inc. | Vice President of Nbc Cable and Business Development | Former |
| NBC Universal, Inc. | General Manager | Former |
| National Broadcasting Company, Inc. | General Manager | Former |
| Interactive Media Group Incorporated | Founder | Former |
| iVillage Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
| NBC Universal, Inc. | Director | Former |
| Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania | MBA In Management | Former |
| University of Virginia | Bachelor's Degree In Electrical Engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | President, Hearst Business Media | Current |
| Morgan Stanley | principal | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Vice President & Chief Communications Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Chief Legal and Development Officer & Senior Vice President | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| iVillage Inc. | Former | |
| XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. | Former | |
| Hire.com Inc. | Former | |
| New York University | J.D. degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Chief Investment Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President | Current |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University | Board of Directors | Current |
| Lifetime Entertainment, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| A&E Television Networks | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Lazard Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Vice President, Taxes | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Deputy Tax Director | Former |
| The Hearst Corporation | Director of Taxation and Assistant Treasurer | Former |
| Coopers & Lybrand, L.L.P. | Senior Tax Manager | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | General Counsel & Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Vice President | Current |
| The Hearst Foundation, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hearst Magazines | Executive Vice President & General Manager | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Vice President, Finance | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hearst Interactive Media | Vice President, Communications | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Executive Director, Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Consultant | Current |
| The National Magazine Company Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Magazine Publishers of America | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hearst Magazines | President & Chief Executive Officer, International | Former |
| The Hearst Corporation | President & Chief Executive Officer, Hearst Magazines International | Former |
| The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. | President & Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) | President | Former |
| Magazine Publishers of America | Chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hearst Entertainment & Syndication | President | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Senior Vice President | Current |
| Marvel Entertainment, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. | President of Turner Entertainment Group | Former |
| MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. | President and COO of Andrews Group | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hearst Newspapers | President | Current |
| The Hearst Corporation | Senior Vice President & President, Hearst Newspapers | Current |
| Hearst Newspapers | Executive Vice President | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hearst Corporation | Chairman | Current |
| The Hearst Foundation, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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