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06/01/2018

A Q&A with GateHouse Media CEO Kirk Davis

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Cost-cutting equity funds have hollowed out scores of daily newspapers, turning their communities into “news deserts,” the critics say. But Kirk Davis, CEO of GateHouse Media, replies that though its publicly traded parent, New Media Investment Group, is externally managed by an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, GateHouse is transforming its 144 dailies into tribunes of the people that are on their way to becoming financially healthy.

In this Q&A with “The New News,” Davis makes his case:

How, even as it cuts the size of editorial staffs at its newspapers, is GateHouse succeeding in your public goal of preserving its “front-line reporting resources”?

To build a sustainable future for local journalism going forward, we must optimize our cost structure and develop and scale new revenue streams.

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