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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Good news for Bay Area journalism

The lawsuit against the Hearst Corp., which owns the San Francisco Chronicle, and William Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group, which owns every other daily newspaper in the region, ended this week in a settlement. Clint Reilly filed the federal civil suit a year ago in an attempt to block the would-be competitors from sharing monopoly control of the Bay Area's daily newspaper establishment.

The deal blocks any future business deals between Hearst and MediaNews. Read more on the San Francisco Bay Guardian Web site.

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