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When former owner Peter Horvitz bought the JA and the Valley Daily News, he began morphing them into one product aimed at everyone from Woodinville to Auburn and began losing money.Could returning to intensely local, zoned news save KCJ?
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The one right thing that Peter Horvitz did as owner of King County Journal Newspapers was launch the net of seven community newspapers.
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But departing Publisher Peter Horvitz blamed KCJ's continuing losses on the tough Seattle media market, the digital revolution and the fact that reality refused to conform to his business model for the newspaper.Ok, that last comment is my interpretation, but as a former employee, I feel entitled.
Let us pause for a brief moment of silence for the former Journal-American and the former Valley Daily News.These two tough, scrappy little newspapers and the fine workers who produced them deserve to be acknowledged and honored.Once Horvitz bought the papers, he began to merge them into a creature that was neither fish nor fowl, a newspaper in search of readers who identify themselves first and foremost as residents of King County.Guess what?
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Peter Horvitz, president of Horvitz Newspapers, Inc., and David Black,
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president of Black Press Ltd, have jointly announced that Horvitz
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For information contact Peter Horvitz at 253-437-6040 or
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So far, Publisher Peter Horvitz is neither confirming nor denying.We understand he's in a tough position, but people in Bellevue and Kent deserve to know what's happening, if it IS happening!