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FORM 4
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[ ] Check box if no longer WASHINGTON, DC 20549
subject to Section 16. Form
4 or Form 5 obligations may STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
continue. See Instruction 1(b).
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person(1)|2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol |6. Relationship of Reporting Person
| | to Issuer (Check all applicable)
Ridgway Ronald H | Pulitzer Inc. (PTZ) | X Director X 10% Owner
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(Last) (First) (Middle) |3. IRS Identification | 4. Statement for | X Officer (give title below)
| Number of | Month/Year | -----
| Reporting Person, | | Other (specify below)
| if an Entity | | -----
900 North Tucker Boulevard | (Voluntary) | December 1999 | Sr. Vice President-Finance
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(Street) | | 5. If Amendment, |7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
| | Date of Original | X (Check applicable line)
| | (Month/Year) | -- Form Filed by One Reporting Person
St. Louis MO 63101 | | |
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(City) (State) (Zip) | | Reporting Person
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TABLE I - NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security |2. Transaction| 3. Transaction|4. Securities Acquired (A)| 5. Amount of|6. Owner- |7. Nature
(Instr. 3) | Date | Code | or Disposed of (D) | Securities | ship | of
| | (Instr. 8) | (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | Beneficially| Form: | Indirect
| | | | Owned at End| Direct | Bene-
| |---------------|--------------------------| of Month | (D) or | ficial
| | | | | (A) | | (Instr. 3 | Indirect | Owner-
| (Month/Day/ | | | | or | | and 4) | (I) | ship
| Year) | Code | V | Amount | (D) | Price | |(Instr. 4)|(Instr. 4)
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Common Stock, $.01 par value | | | | | | |28,983.206(1)| D |
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FORM 4 (CONTINUED) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative | 2. Conver- |3. Trans- |4. Trans- |5. Number of |6. Date Exer- |7. Title and Amount |8. Price
Security | sion or | action | action | Derivative | cisable and | of Underlying | of
(Instr. 3) | Exercise | Date | Code | Securities Ac- | Expiration | Securities | Deriv-
| Price of | (Month/ | (Instr. 8)| quired (A) or | Date | (Instr. 3 and 4) | ative
| Deriv- | Day/ | | Disposed of (D)| (Month/Day/ | | Secur-
| ative | Year) | | (Instr. 3, 4, | Year) | | ity
| Security | | | and 5) | | | (Instr. 5)
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| | | | |Date |Expira- | | Amount or |
| | |-------------------------------|Exer- |tion | Title | Number of |
| | | Code |V | (A) |(D) |cisable|Date | | Shares |
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| | | | | | | 12/17 | 12/17 |Common | |
| | | | | | | | |Stock, | |
Stock Option | | | | | | | | |$.01 par| |
(right to buy) (02) | $39.6875 |12/17/1999| A | | 16667| | 2000 | 2009 |value | 16667 | $39.6875
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| | | | | | | 12/17 | 12/17 |Common | |
| | | | | | | | |Stock, | |
Stock Option | | | | | | | | |$.01 par| |
(right to buy) (02) | $39.6875 |12/17/1999| A | | 16666| | 2001 | 2009 |value | 16666 | $39.6875
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| | | | | | | 12/17 | 12/17 |Common | |
| | | | | | | | |Stock, | |
Stock Option | | | | | | | | |$.01 par| |
(right to buy) (02) | $39.6875 |12/17/1999| A | | 16667| | 2002 | 2009 |value | 16667 | $39.6875
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9. Number of | 10. Ownership | 11. Nature of
Derivative | Form of | Indirect
Securities | Derivative | Beneficial
Beneficially | Security: | Ownership
Owned at End | Direct (D) | (Instr. 4)
of Month | or Indirect (I) |
(Instr. 4) | (Instr. 4) |
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50,000 | D |
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Explanation of Responses:
Table I. Item 1:
(01) Mr. Ridgway may be deemed a "10% Owner" by virtue of the fact that he shares voting power with respect to 13,391,004 shares
of Class B Common Stock (which is convertible at any time, on a share-for-share basis, into Common Stock) held by the 1999
Pulitzer Inc. Voting Trust, of which he is a trustee. Mr Ridgway has no pecuniary interest in any of the shares held by such
trust.
Table II. Item 1:
(02) Employee stock option granted under the Pulitzer Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan in transaction exempt under Rule 16b-3. The
option becomes exercisable in 33 1/3 percent increments on December 17, 2000, December 17, 2001 and December 17, 2002,
respectively.
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