SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 12 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report: May 11, 1999
LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED
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(exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 1-6227 42-0823980
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(State of other (Commission (IRS Employer
jurisdiction of file number) Identification
incorporation) No.)
215 N. Main Street, Davenport, IA 52801-1924
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(address of principal executive offices) ZIP Code
(319) 383-2100
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(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
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ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS
On May 11, 1999 the Registrant issued the following press release
announcing the election of Mary E. Junck as Executive Vice President and Chief
Operating Officer and a director of the Registrant and other anticipated changes
in the management and Board of Directors of the Registrant.
Mary E. Junck joins Lee as chief operating officer
DAVENPORT, Iowa (May 11, 1999) -- Mary E. Junck, nationally known newspaper
executive and civic leader, will join Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, as chief
operating officer and a member of its board of directors.
Richard D. Gottlieb, Lee's president and chief executive officer, said she
will join Lee in mid-summer as executive vice president and will become
president in January 2000, when Lloyd G. Schermer retires as chairman. At that
time, Gottlieb will become chairman and retain his position as chief executive
officer.
Junck, 51, had held several senior executive positions at the Times Mirror
Company, most recently as executive vice president and president of its eastern
newspapers group.
"I have known Mary for years and am absolutely delighted that she will be
joining Lee," Gottlieb said. "She is a leader of the highest quality, with a
fabulous value system and a terrific track record as a corporate and community
leader. I look forward to partnering with her as we take Lee into the next
century."
Junck said: "Lee is a growth-oriented media company with great people,
strong and varied properties and an outstanding commitment to its customers and
the communities it serves. I'm thrilled to be joining Lee and know I'll enjoy
working with Dick and his team."
She added: "It's a bonus to be back in Iowa, where I was born and raised
and still have family."
As executive vice president of Times Mirror and president of Times Mirror
Eastern Newspapers, she was responsible for all newspaper operations in the
region, including Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, The Morning
Call, and Southern Connecticut Newspapers. She also had responsibility for Times
Mirror magazines and StayWell, Times Mirror's consumer health company. She held
that position since 1997.
From 1993 to 1997, she was publisher and chief executive officer of The
Baltimore Sun. From 1990 to 1992, she was publisher and president of the St.
Paul Pioneer Press, where she had served as president, general manager and
senior vice president since 1985.
She began her career at the Charlotte Observer in 1972 as marketing
research manager and advanced to retail advertising manager. In 1977, she joined
the Miami Herald as advertising marketing manager, and later was promoted to
assistant advertising director. While in Miami she was appointed to the
Knight-Ridder corporate staff in 1982 and became assistant to the senior vice
president of operations.
She has been widely known in Baltimore civic circles, where she has been a
member of several boards and chairs the Greater Baltimore Alliance, a regional
economic development group. She also has served on the Johns Hopkins Medicine
Board, Greater Baltimore Committee Board, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Board,
University of Maryland Baltimore County Visitors Board and Washington Baltimore
Regional 2012 Coalition. She also serves on the board of directors of Mercantile
Bankshares Corporation and the Newspaper Association of America. She coaches a
girls basketball team for the Towson Recreation Council and teaches second grade
Sunday School class at Ascension Lutheran Church.
She is a native of Ogden, Iowa. She received a bachelor of arts degree in
English from Valpraiso University and master's degree in journalism from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She and her husband, Ralph Gibson, have a son and a daughter.
Lee Enterprises is based in Davenport, Iowa. It owns more than 100 media
enterprises in 20 states, including 21 daily newspapers, nine network-affiliated
and seven satellite television stations, more than 75 weekly, classified and
specialty publications, and a division for commercial printing.
Lee's daily newspapers include the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison,
Wis.; the Lincoln Journal Star in Lincoln, Neb.; the Quad-City Times in
Davenport, Iowa, and the Billings Gazette in Billings, Mont. Its nine
network-affiliated television stations include KOIN in Portland, Ore.; KRQE in
Albuquerque, WSAZ in Huntington-Charleston, W.Va.; KGMB in Honolulu, Hawaii;
KMTV in Omaha, Neb.; and KGUN in Tucson, Ariz.
Lee's stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol LEE.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED
/s/ Richard D. Gottlieb
By: ----------------------------------------
Richard D. Gottlieb
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dated: May 11, 1999
