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As the Richmond area's major publicly traded companies prepare to close the books on a tumultuous 2009, their recently issued income statements and balance sheets show how the pain of recession during the past year has filtered through the economy.

Valassis, Consolidated Printing, Quad/Graphics, Standard Register, Media General, Lead Concepts, KT Web Printing, Calif.

CHICAGO Media General Inc. Wednesday afternoon joined the chorus of newspaper publishers telling the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York City that they see the long drought of advertising spending beginning to break.

The Hanover County school superintendent painted a bleak picture for public education in Virginia recently.

The Tampa Tribune is moving on without its executive editor as Janet Coats announces she's leaving the Media General Inc.

Media General, Inc. will present at the 37th Annual UBS Global Media & Communications Conference on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, at 1:30 p.m., in New York, N.Y. Marshall N. Morton, president and chief executive officer, Reid Ashe, executive vice president and chief operating officer, and John A. Schauss, vice president-finance and chief financial ...

RICHMOND, VA. Media General is a centralcasting veteran. Since Spring 2004, the station group owner has operated a 10-station centralcasting hub in Spartanburg, S.C. Two-and-a-half years later, Media General consolidated its remaining eight stations onto a centralcasting hub based in Columbus, Ohio.

Thomas Silvestri elected chairman of American Press Institute API announces new officers and directors RESTON, Va.

Some of the current economic hit broadcasters are taking is cyclical, broadcasters told the FCC Wednesday, but some of it is systemic and rooted in changes to the media marketplace that won't be undone by a rising stock market.

Broadcasters got their chance to weigh in Wednesday on the FCC's media ownership rule review.

The big winner ten years from now will be a company that is tiny today or hasn't even been born yet.

Breaking: MediaJobsDaily reports Media General is considering consolidating the copy-editing and design functions for most of its papers into a central location.

How quickly the tide can turn for newspaper investors, particularly when you don't read the fine print.

I'll be honest, as a full-time reporter, I can't help but feel happy to see investors pile into a newspaper company.

Business: Custom picture framing and large-format digital printing that offers photographic quality with images that are measured in feet instead of inches.

" Advertising revenue at WJAR-TV appears to have "stabilized," the CEO of the station's parent company said Wednesday as the firm announced a large third-quarter loss.

Media General, Inc. today reported a net loss for the third quarter of 2009 of $62.5 million, or $2.80 per share, including a pretax non-cash impairment charge of $84 million, compared with net income of $6.1 million, or 27 cents per diluted share, in the 2008 period.

Steve Brandt, president and publisher of The Greenville News, was elected Monday as president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association.

The Science Museum of Virginia held its fourth annual Kugel Ball and after-party Oct.

Republican Bob McDonnell is enjoying a hefty lead among Southwest Virginia voters as the governor's race enters its final weeks, according to a poll released Saturday.