34 Quotes by Gary Pruitt

We're a mass medium ... The best way to be relevant is to reflect the community and serve it well.

This puts us back in the breaking news business and back into the continuous news mode.

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Newspapers are holding on to their national audiences better (than other media), but the negative side is we're more difficult to buy. The industry is aware of it.

Given the company's small amount of debt relative to its cash flow, this is a good time to return cash to our shareholders.

I think you can expect a more robust and interactive Web site here at The Herald.

I think the best-case scenario, we will design the park next year and break ground on park construction in 2007,

Our local competitors have fragmented audiences. As a result, we're the last mass medium. We're holding onto that audience better than anybody else, albeit it's slipping slowly each year.

The 11.5 times multiple -- which is two full turns higher than the 9.5 times multiple we paid for the whole of Knight Ridder -- demonstrates that these are strong newspapers with great value to companies whose strategies fit them.