Who Is MediaNews's Dean Singleton?

QUESTION: WHO IS MEDIANEWS'S DEAN SINGLETON?
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Katharine Seelye]
A look at William Dean Singleton. At 54, he is thought of as something of a magician in the newspaper world -- having transformed himself from the son of a ranch hand in a tiny town in Texas to a media baron who now controls a newspaper empire that sprawls from coast to coast. His company, the privately held MediaNews based in Denver, owns 55 dailies including The Denver Post, The Detroit News, The Daily News of Los Angeles and The Berkshire Eagle, plus more than 100 nondailies. With the addition of the Knight Ridder papers -- The San Jose Mercury News, The Contra Costa Times and The Monterey County Herald, all in California, and The St. Paul Pioneer Press -- MediaNews has become the nation's fourth-biggest newspaper company, up from seventh.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/business/media/22singleton.html
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