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Article: Knight Ridder Names Harold Higgins Publisher of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
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- September 27, 2001
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ --
Knight Ridder (NYSE: KRI) today announced the appointment of Harold Higgins, publisher of The (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) Tribune, as president and publisher of the St. Paul Pioneer Press effective Nov. 1. He replaces Rick Sadowski.
Knight Ridder Chairman and CEO Tony Ridder said, "Harold Higgins has been a superb leader in each of his previous assignments. In San Luis Obispo, he took a struggling newspaper that we acquired in 1997 and made it Knight Ridder's top performer for percentage increase in ad revenue growth over the past two years. In August 1999, he launched a Sunday edition of The Tribune, San Luis ...