Article: Knight-Ridder Inc. repeats request to attorney general to give "immediate approval" to joint operating agency between Detroit Free Press and Detroit News.

MIAMI, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Knight-Ridder Inc. (NYSE-KRI) and Gannett Co. Inc. today replied to the report of the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and repeated their request to the attorney general to give "immediate approval" to a joint operating agency between the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News)

In a 34-page response to the Antitrust Division's report on the April application by the two companies for approval of a JOA in Detroit, the two companies took issue with a number of points in that report.

The Antitrust Division report was a response to the April filing by Knight-Ridder and Gannett for an exemption from the antitrust ...

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