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AUGUSTA, Ga., July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Morris Publishing Group, LLC, today announces the call for redemption of all of its public debt. The company elected to redeem all outstanding notes under its publicly filed Indenture, and deposited funds with the Trustee to pay off these notes on Aug. 10, 2012. Morris Publishing refinanced its debt under more favorable terms with CB&T, of Columbus, Georgia, a division of Synovus Bank. "Today demonstrates just how far we come in...
AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Morris Communications Co. today announced a major restructuring of its newspaper group to implement a wide-ranging "digital-first" transformation. The changes include senior leadership appointments at Morris Publishing Group and MPG's integration of key pieces of Morris DigitalWorks, MCC's long-time digital support group. Derek J. May, executive vice president of MPG, announced two senior appointments: Mark E. Lane as Vice President of Sales to...
To be rolled-out nationally after successful Pilot at Augusta Chronicle San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 27, 2011 InSequent (http://www.insequent.com) today announced that Morris Publishing Group (http://www.morris.com) has selected them as their mobile marketing solution provider. InSequent's solution will be offered as a standalone option, as well as bundled with various ad products, and sold by the company's ad sales force. Morris has numerous daily and non-daily newspapers, radio...
AUGUSTA, Ga., May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Morris Publishing Group today announced the retirement of Executive Vice President James C. Currow and the appointment of Derek J. May as the new executive vice president effective Friday, May 6. As EVP of Morris Publishing Group, Mr. Currow, 67, has served as the chief operating officer, overseeing the company's 13 daily newspapers, 27 non-daily publications and Skirt magazine. "Jim Currow's leadership and management of our newspapers have been...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Colo5, LLC, a leading independent data center operator headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, announced it will provide selective disaster recovery services to the Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville.com. Based in Jacksonville, the Florida Times- Union and Jacksonville.com are the major daily newspaper and online information distributor in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. In the event of an outage or disaster they would become the...
AUGUSTA, Ga., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The bankruptcy court here today confirmed Morris Publishing Group's reorganization plan and approved the adequacy of its Disclosure Statement, clearing the way for the Company to emerge from bankruptcy as soon as March 1, 2010. Once it emerges from bankruptcy, Morris Publishing and its 13 daily newspapers will operate from a stronger financial position, having reduced its overall principal amount of indebtedness from approximately $418 million to...
AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Morris Publishing Group announced today that, as part of its financial restructuring, the company has received Court approval to continue business operations without interruption. Judge John Dalis of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Augusta granted critical "first-day" motions that allow the company to continue paying wages and benefits to employees and to continue covering both pre- and post-petition obligations to suppliers and customers. The court also...
AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- With the support of an overwhelming majority of its bondholders, Morris Publishing Group today filed a plan in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Augusta to complete the restructuring of its debt. Morris has asked the Court to approve a plan that will reduce bondholder debt through the issuance of $100 million of new second lien secured notes due in 2014 in exchange for the cancellation of approximately $278.5 million...
By Judy Wells It isn't easy to find speakers who are informative and entertaining, who are of topical interest to audiences and are affordable. Talk to organizers of Florida Forum, the popular series developed as a fund-raiser by The Women's Board of Wolfson Children's Hospital, if you doubt it. The first session, right around the corner on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Florida Theatre, features Michael Beschloss on What Makes a Great President? Now that's topical. As the author of nine books,...
By STEVE PATTERSON ORLANDO -- Water wars like the fight over St. Johns River withdrawals will only grow unless Florida learns to manage its water better, experts and policymakers meeting Thursday said. But the same group, which included Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton and whose ideas are supposed to help state lawmakers find some solutions, struggled to agree among themselves how to do that. "My thought is, scratch it," environmental activist Charles Lee said as a circle of delegates at a...
