BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$300.0M
- Private
- US
Dow Jones Description
The Ottaway organization was founded in November 1936 when James H. Ottaway Sr. purchased the Bulletin, a semi-weekly newspaper in Endicott, N.Y. Within a year he converted it into a daily and in 1944 began buying other publications, starting in the Northeast and eventually crossing the country. In 1970, Ottaway merged with Dow Jones and now operates print and online community media franchises in seven states including daily, Sunday and weekly newspapers, Internet sites, magazines and other news and advertising niche publications. Operating results and editorial quality are the specific responsibility of each publisher and team of department heads. At the corporate headquarters in Campbell Hall, NY, executives and specialists in finance, sales and marketing provide assistance to all locations for print and online operations. A central staff for information services and the Internet provides technical support. The Ottaway group has pursued journalistic excellence and service since the company was started. In 1973, then-president James H. Ottaway Jr. formalized the company's commitment in a statement of editorial philosophy which begins: "The first purpose and priority of Ottaway Newspapers is to maintain high standards of excellence in news content, editorial quality and public service. We pursue these professional standards of journalism with a strict policy of local editorial independence, tempered only by the requirements of news and editorial quality. ...
President & CEO
Andrew LanghoffNumber of Employees 2,999
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Newspaper Publishers: 511110
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Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. to Add CityXpress Transaction Capabilities to Its Online Classifieds
- 2005-09-26
CityXpress Corp., a leading developer of revenue-generating products and programs for newspapers, today announced at the Western Classified Advertising Association Conference in Rancho Mirage, Calif., that the company has signed an agreement with Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., the community newspaper subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co., Inc., to provide online transaction...
Resurrection in Dixie
- 2003-06-01
Five years ago the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Statehouse coverage was moribund. Today its nine-member bureau, the nation third-largest contingent of capital reporters, provides readers with robust reporting on state government. Last fall, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had a staff meeting to introduce its new managing editor for news, Hank Klibanoff. ...
Stockton, Calif., Daily Newspaper Sold to Wall Street Journal Publisher.
- 2003-04-17
By Reed Fujii, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Reed Fujii, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Lee Enterprises Sells 2 Publications in Oregon to Ottaway
- 2002-10-01
Business Editors DAVENPORT, Iowa--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 1, 2002 Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (NYSE:LEE), has completed the sale of two publications in southern Oregon to Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. They are the Ashland Daily Tidings, a Monday-Saturday afternoon newspaper with circulation of 5,100, and Nickel Want Ad Newspaper, a classified advertising...
Sad state: newspaper budget-cutting has triggered a sharp drop in the number of reporters assigned to cover the nation's increasingly important statehouses
- 2002-06-01
ABOUT THIS UPDATE This is another of the periodic updates of stories that appeared in the State of the American Newspaper series in AJR. The next update, on foreign coverage, will appear in the July/August issue. The series is being reproduced in a two-volume anthology from the University of...
Capital News
- 1999-07-01
One year later, reporting ranks are up in 24 statehouses. NORM LEWIS, EDITOR OF THE SKAGIT VALley Herald in Mount Vernon, Washington, admits that his little paper (circulation 20,500) didn't used to pay much attention to the statehouse in Olympia. For years the Herald only had one intern from...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Andrew Langhoff | President & CEO |
| Jonathan Kahan | Chief Financial Officer |
| Joseph Richter | chief operating officer |
| William A Zurilla | CFO & Vice President |
| William T. Kennedy | Chief Operating Officer |
| Don Waterman | Senior Vice President, Printing & Distribution |
| John Kinney | Senior Vice President |
| Kurt Lozier | Senior Vice President, Product Marketing |
| Molly Evans | Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales |
| Catherine Paffenroth | Vice President, Hr |
| David P. Stewart | Vice President |
| Ken Hall | Vice President, News |
| Ron Regan | Vice President, MIS |
| Sharon McGinnis | Vice President, Human Resources |
| Zeke Fleet | Vice President, Operations and Advertising |
| George M. Dratelis | Director |
| Jim Maxwell | Director, Corp Advertising |
| Chet Krinsky | Treasurer |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Patrick J. Purcell | Executive Chairman |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | President & CEO | Current |
| Dow Jones & Company, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer, Ottaway Local Media Group | Current |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | General Counsel | Current |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | General Counsel & Senior Vice President | Former |
| Dow Jones & Company, Inc. | General Counsel & Senior Vice President, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Former |
| White & Case Llp | Litigator | Former |
| University of Virginia School of Law | Graduate | Former |
| Tufts University | Graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Chief Financial Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | chief operating officer | Current |
| United States Marine Corps | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | CFO & Vice President | Current |
| Dow Jones & Company, Inc. | Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Current |
| Syracuse University | MBA | Former |
| The Pennsylvania State University | BS | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Printing & Distribution | Current |
| Dow Jones & Company, Inc. | Vice President, Operations | Current |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Vice President, Operations & Audience Development | Former |
| Cape Cod Times | Consumer Marketing Director | Former |
| Cape Cod Times | Circulation Director | Former |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Corporate Circulation Director | Former |
| Newspaper Association of America | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Senior Vice President | Current |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Reporter, Editor, General Manager | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Product Marketing | Current |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Director, Corp Internet Revenue | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Vice President, Hr | Current |
| Dow Jones & Company, Inc. | Vice President, Human Resources, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Current |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Chief Accountant | Former |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Director of Employee Relations | Former |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Human Resources Executive | Former |
| Mercy College | Bachelors Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Vice President, News | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Vice President, MIS | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Vice President, Human Resources | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Vice President, Operations and Advertising | Current |
| Dow Jones & Company, Inc. | Vice President, Operations and Advertising for Ottaway Newspapers | Current |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Gm | Former |
| Record-Eagle | Publisher | Former |
| Press-Republican | Publisher | Former |
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Advertising and Marketing Director | Former |
| Traverse City Record-Eagle | Advertising and Marketing Director | Former |
| Michigan Press Association | Board Director | Former |
| New York Newspaper Publishers Association | Board of Directors | Former |
| Michigan State University | Graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Director, Corp Advertising | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Treasurer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Executive Chairman | Current |
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