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Not every ex-newspaper employee has trouble finding work

By Laurie Bennett

November 22, 2009 at 8:42am

The torturous decline of mainstream media has taken on an air of inevitability.

Isn’t it possible that corporate leadership - from the smug, monopolistic years through the blind panic of today - had a role?

And if it did, why do so many former news execs still govern other companies?

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Among those on Fortune 1000 boards:

  • John Madigan, former chairman and CEO of the now-bankrupt Tribune Company - Boise Cascade and Gilead Sciences.

  • Mark Willes, ex-chairman of Times Mirror and ex-publisher of the Los Angeles Times, which has suffered severe cutbacks - Black & Decker.

  • Burl Osborne, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, which has also cut many newsroom jobs - J.C. Penney.

  • Tony Ridder, former chairman and CEO of the now-defunct Knight Ridder - Sun Microsystems.

(Full disclosure: Bennett was a reporter and new media director at the Detroit Free Press, a former Knight Ridder paper now owned by Gannett.)

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