![]() ![]() The move reshapes a tumultuous Southern California newspaper market in a struggling industry. The U-T reported that the new owners may drop the name that Manchester introduced and return to The San Diego Union-Tribune, which is how it had been known since 1992, when The San Diego Union and The Tribune combined. The deal is expected to be completed before June 30, according to the U-T. He agreed to sell after saying last year that he would consider shedding the newspaper to a group of San Diego business leaders who wanted to turn it into a nonprofit organization. Manchester will receive $73 million cash and $12 million in Tribune Publishing stock, the newspapers said. "It has been important to me to speak out positively on a local, national and international level, particularly in denouncing Christian genocide and other oppression throughout the world," Manchester said in the U-T. One of his first moves was to give the U-T a new slogan, "The World's Greatest Country & America's Finest City." Manchester, who insists that employees and others call him "Papa Doug," used his foray into newspaper publishing to trumpet conservative political views. The U-T said Jeff Light, its president and editor, would remain at the San Diego paper. The newspaper will stay under a short-term lease while Manchester pursues a plan to build 200 apartments there.īeutner will be publisher of both papers and chief executive of Tribune Publishing's California News Group, which will oversee operations in both markets. Loyal SC Sets Home Opener, Open Tryout Eventĭouglas Manchester, a prominent San Diego developer who bought the U-T in 2011 for about $110 million, will keep the U-T's headquarters in the city's Mission Valley area. ![]()
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