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FORM 4
------ U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[ ] 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)
Pulitzer Michael E. | 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)
900 North Tucker Boulevard | if an Entity | 08/2000 | -----
| (Voluntary) | | Chairman of the Board
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(Street) | | 5. If Amendment, |7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
| | Date of Original | (Check applicable line)
St. Louis, MO 63101 | | (Month/Year) | X Form Filed by One Reporting Person
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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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Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value (1) 08/01/2000 | Z(2) | |26,300 | D | N/A | | I | (3)
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Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value (1) 08/02/2000 | Z(2) | |36,700 | D | N/A | | I | (3)
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Common Stock, $.01 par value | 08/01/2000 | Z(2) | |26,300 | A | N/A | | D |
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Common Stock, $.01 par value | 08/02/2000 | Z(2) | |36,700 | A | N/A | | D |
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Common Stock, $.01 par value | 08/01/2000 | S | |26,300 | D |$40.1582 | | D |
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Common Stock, $.01 par value | 08/02/2000 | S | |36,700 | D |$39.5136 | | D |
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Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value (1) 08/16/2000 | Z(5) | 1 ,000,000| D |$40.1200 | 2,113,276(4)| I | (3)
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Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value (1) | | | | | | 26,565 | I | (6)
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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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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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Explanation of Responses:
/s/ Michael E. Pulitzer 9/10/2000
See attached page. -------------------------------- -------
Signature of Reporting Person(1) Date
(1)Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note File three copies of this form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
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FORM 4 (continued) Explanation of Responses
NAME: Michael E. Pulitzer STATEMENT FOR MONTH/YEAR: 08/2000
900 North Tucker Boulevard ISSUER NAME: PULITZER INC. (PTZ)
St. Louis, MO 63101
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Note: 1
Table I. Item 1.
Class B Common Stock which is convertible at any time, on a
share-for-share basis, into Common Stock.
Note: 2
Table I. Item 3.
Immediately prior to their sale, the reporting person converted these
shares of Class B Common Stock into the same number of shares of
Common Stock and withdrew those shares from the voting trust described
below.
Note: 3
Table I. Item 7.
Right to acquire upon conversion of 2,113,276 shares of Class B
Common Stock held in the voting trust described below. Of these
2,113,276 shares indirectly owned by Michael E. Pulitzer, beneficial
ownership is disclaimed for 1,500 shares held in trust for the
benefit of the wife of the reporting person; 2,022,826 shares are
held by a Trust for the benefit of Mr. Pulitzer under a Trust
Agreement dated as of March 22, 1982; 46,170 shares are held by a
Trust for the benefit of Mr. Pulitzer under Trust Agreement dated as
of August 16, 1983; and 42,780 shares are held by The Ceil and
Michael E. Pulitzer Foundation, Inc., a charitable foundation for the
benefit of Mr. Pulitzer who claims beneficial ownership of these
42,780 shares.
Note 4:
Table I. Item 5.
Mr. Pulitzer may be deemed a "10% Owner" by virtue of the fact that
he shares voting power with respect to 11,655,111 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.
Note 5:
Table I. Item 3.
Mr. Pulitzer sold 1,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock to
Pulitzer Inc. in a privately negotiated transaction under Pulitzer
Inc.'s amended stock repurchase program.
Note 6:
Table I. Item 7.
Held in trust for the benefit of the wife of the reporting person.
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