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Cover Report: Industry Trends
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CEO William Rogers is well aware that the Internet poses a significant threat to traditional print newspapers like The Daily Examiner, a regional, employee-owned newspaper. Therefore, Rogers hired Skip Van Wart as CFO because of his reputation as a strategic change agent for staid industries. Although Van Wart has limited experience in the newspaper industry, he has initiated turnaround strategies in other companies. During his 10 months with the company, Van Wart conducted a study of all areas of operations as well as readership patterns. The study concluded that The Daily Examiner faced a strategic dilemma, determining that two major changes were strategically necessary: 1. the newspaper must develop an online newspaper segment, and 2. the current printing operation should be outsourc...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer involved in several major recent bankruptcies has been named the examiner for the bankruptcy of Dynegy Holdings LLC and will investigate whether the company is treating bondholders fairly.
The appointment of Susheel Kirpalani, chairman of the bankruptcy and restructuring group at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, was made by the U.S. Trustee's office and disclosed in a filing with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan.
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In recent years, social workers in both academic and clinical settings have focused on improving the quality of end-of-life care by closely examining ...
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The U.S. Attorneys office in Charleston and the Kanawha County Prosecutors office have cooperated many times over the years. Now the two offices are designating a particular person to make that happen. Maryclaire Akers, who has been chief of staff for the county prosecutors office, will be special assistant U.S. attorney to the Southern District of West Virginia. Akers is no stranger to her new job. She has been splitting her time between the two offices for the past few weeks. But U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and Kanawha Prosecutor Mark Plants made the move official Friday. Akers retains her prosecuting responsibilities in Plants office, including that of felony cases and prosecuting Shawn Lester, the Charleston man accused in the 2003 sniper style shootings of three Kanawha County resi...
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In an effort to obtain comments from interested parties, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, Scientific Working Group for Medicolegal Death Investigation will make available to the general public a draft document entitled, ``Guidelines for Media Relations: Dissemination of Public Information in Medicolegal Death Investigations.'' The opportunity to provide comments on this document is open to coroner/ medical examiner office representatives, law enforcement agencies, organizations, and all other stakeholders and interested parties. Those individuals wishing to obtain and provide comments on the draft document under consideration are directed to the following Web site: http://www.swgmdi.org