On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

Globally, large media conglomerates include Viacom, CBS Corporation, Time Warner, News Corp, Bertelsmann AG, Sony Corporation of America, NBCUniversal, Vivendi, Televisa, The Walt Disney Company, Hearst Corporation, Organizações Globo and Lagardère Group.

Stung by the loss of its highly profitable TV station, the Herald-Traveler Corp. was put on the market, and acquired by the Hearst Corporation in June 1972.

Koch Industries, Bechtel, Cargill, Publix, Pilot Corp., one of the members of the Big Four accounting firms, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Hearst Corporation, S. C. Johnson, and Mars are among the largest privately held companies in the United States.

Quoted in an early American Morab Horse Association Brochure, " According to A. J. Cooke of the Hearst Corp, Sunical Div.

This Hearst Corp. newspaper is also led by Publisher and President John C. McKeon, Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration Susan Pape, Senior Vice President for Advertising Lilia Jones, Senior Vice President for Technology and PrePress Nina Brooks and Vice President for Circulation Scott Frantzen.

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He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

Among the outstanding members of the Hearst cabinet whom he successfully opposed for a time were the great Arthur Brisbane, Bradford Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, and Colonel Van Hamm.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

During the next years he gave me the second of the five contracts I would sign with the Hearst Service.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

Of course, if you don't make the American a success, Hearst will have no further use for you ''.

Hearst disclaimed blame for this, but the conversation, according to Lane, ended on a tart note.

`` Mr. Lane '', Hearst said, `` if you ever wish anything that I can do, all you will have to do will be to send me a telegram asking, and it will be done ''.

`` Mr. Hearst '', Lane replied as he left, `` if you ever get a telegram from me asking you to do anything, you can put the telegram down as a forgery ''.

Hearst took a brief respite to hurry home to New York to become a father.

Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

Six of the railroads carrying coal to Tidewater from the Pennsylvania fields, Hearst said, not only had illegal agreements with coal operators but owned outright at least eleven mines.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.

To old-line Democrats, the Hearst Presidential boom, now in full cry, was the joke of the new century.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.

The Hearst men say that if Hearst is nominated, he and his immediate friends will contribute to the Democratic National Committee the sum of $1,500,000.

Hearst did occasionally work with or pitch ideas to cartoonists, most notably his continued support of George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

With the Hearst Corporation as a minority partner, UPI continued under Scripps management until 1982.

Herriman's continued with Hearst until June 1905, when he left the paper, possibly due to the new sports editor being unsympathetic to cartoonists.

The English magazine continued in operation for more than 40 years under several owners and editors until it was bought by the William Randolph Hearst company in 1916.

Hardy continued wrestling with the WWF sporadically, including matches against Hunter Hearst Helmsley and " The Ringmaster " Steve Austin.

Construction began in 1919 and continued through 1947 when Hearst stopped living at the estate due to ill health.

Hearst continued to argue that the Times fabricated its loss in 2002.

Later in the 1960s and in the 1970s, Jim Kilgallen continued working as a reporter with his articles appearing in the Hearst papers that remained outside New York City, but his Hearst colleagues knew not to ask him about his late daughter, and so did his " friends of long standing ," said biographer Israel.

But Jim Kilgallen, who continued reporting for Hearst until age 93, is not known to have commented on this or any other suggestions that his daughter might have been murdered.

Outcault left for William Randolph Hearst's employ in 1906, and after a court battle, Outcault continued his strip, now nameless, in Hearst papers, while the Herald continued their own version of Buster Brown with other artists.

" continued Danzig's obsession with the darker underside of American pop culture, as seen from the very first single's " She " ( about Patty Hearst ) to such songs as Violent World and American Nightmare.

Other newsreel series such as Pathé News ( 1910 – 1956 ), Paramount News ( 1927 – 1957 ), Fox Movietone News ( 1928 – 1963 ), Hearst Metrotone News / News of the Day ( 1914 – 1967 ), and Universal Newsreel ( 1929 – 1967 ) continued for a while longer.

Now financed by William Randolph Hearst, Wilkins continued his polar explorations, now flying over Antarctica in the San Francisco.

They had collaborated on an exhibition of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst collection in 1916 at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, and they continued to be partners in many projects for the rest of their lives, each crediting the other with greater expertise.

Louise Bryant continued to work following her second husband's death and became a leading reporter for the Hearst newspaper chain.