This just takes the cake...out of our mouths

To quote an esteemed colleague from a competing newspaper: BusinessWeek's profile of Singleton, our MediaNews maestro, as the savior of newspapers "takes the cake."Newspapers' Unlikely Hero "Ruthless head of a print news empire, William Dean Singleton has become a crusader for efficiency and collaboration as a way to save the industry....denounced within the newspaper industry as a rapacious bottom feeder who buys troubled papers, slashes costs, and foists lousy products on defenseless subscribers...This black sheep is an emerging leader in the fight to save newspapering."Oh, is that why MediaNews President Jody Lodovic told Bloomberg News last week. “Why does every newspaper need copy editors? In this day and age, I think copy-editing can be done centrally for several newspapers.” Right. That comment just speaks for itself. But if you want an answer, read this tale. Then read about how hard they are fighting for newspapering -- profits, that is.