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05/07/07
AP Press Release
William Dean Singleton of MediaNews Group Inc. succeeds Burl
Osborne as AP board chairman
NEW YORK -- The Associated Press board of directors has elected
MediaNews Group Inc. Vice Chairman and CEO W. Dean Singleton
as its chairman, the news cooperative announced Monday.
Singleton succeeds Burl Osborne, publisher emeritus of The
Dallas Morning News, who is stepping down as chairman after
five years as he retires from the board.
Singleton was first elected to the AP board in 1999. In 1983
he founded Denver-based MediaNews, a privately owned newspaper
company. It now ranks as the fourth-largest newspaper company
in the United States. Together with its affiliated companies,
MediaNews publishes 57 daily newspapers, including the Denver
Post and Detroit News, and about 120 non-daily publications
in 13 states. It also owns a CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska,
and four radio stations in Texas.
William Dean Singleton started out in newspapers as a part-time
reporter in his Graham, Texas, hometown at the age of 15 and
bought his first newspaper at 21. He served as chairman of
the Newspaper Association of America in 2002.
Osborne joined The Dallas Morning News as executive editor
in 1980 following a 20-year career with the AP. He later served
as president, editor and publisher of the newspaper and also
as a director of the paper's parent company, Belo Corp. As
chairman of AP, Osborne oversaw the 2003 selection of Thomas
Curley, then president and publisher of USA Today, as president
and CEO of the AP, and helped bring the not-for-profit news
cooperative into the digital era.
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