Eric Nalder Named Senior Enterprise Reporter for Hearst Newspapers

Pulitzer Prize & Polk Award Recipient to Take on Larger Role at Hearst
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Hearst Newspapers announced today that two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Hearst
journalist Eric Nalder has been named to the new role of senior enterprise
reporter for Hearst Newspapers, effective immediately. The announcement was made
by Steven R. Swartz, president, Hearst Newspapers. Nalder will report to Phil
Bronstein, editor-at-large for both Hearst Newspapers and the San Francisco
Chronicle.

Commenting on the announcement, Swartz said, "Eric Nalder is a tenacious
journalist whose body of work is outstanding. Through his own work and
collaboration with our reporters and editors across the country, Eric will
ensure that all of our properties maintain our commitment to high-quality
investigative and enterprise journalism."

Prior to this, Nalder was chief investigative reporter for the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. Nalder`s investigative journalism will appear in all Hearst
Newspapers` properties and he will continue to be a leader of the Hearst
Newspapers Investigative Team. He will also provide his expertise to other
Hearst journalists.

Most recently, the I-team found that Boy Scouts councils across the country have
widely logged or sold prime woodlands to turn quick profits, sometimes in and
around sensitive and protected forests, or on lands that were bequeathed to the
Boy Scouts by donors intent on preserving the lands for outdoor recreation.

Before that, the I-team investigated disastrous military housing privatization
programs across the country. Nalder`s two-part series on the investigation,
`Demoted to Private: America's Military Housing Disaster,` earned him the 2008
George Polk Award for Military Reporting.

"Eric`s work is consistently a potent example of exactly the kind of public
service work journalists should and do provide-holding powerful people and
institutions accountable, particularly when it comes to public money and
responsibility," Bronstein said. "His work is also a great model for what all of
our journalists and newspapers must do: develop close, cooperative alliances to
continue to produce the definitive, award-winning local, regional and national
news and investigative reporting our readers rely on us to provide."

On the Scouts project, Bronstein said, "newspaper journalists worked with
Hearst-Argyle television stations to coordinate wider publication of the
stories, a unique and new partnership and practice that Eric will help
encourage."

Nalder was awarded the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for an
investigative series that exposed the weak regulation of oil tankers following
the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In 1997, he received a second Pulitzer for
Investigative Reporting for a series of stories about corruption and waste in
the federal government's Native American housing program. For a 1993
investigation of U.S. Sen. Brock Adams, Nalder shared an Investigative Reporters
and Editors award, the Associated Press Managing Editors Award, the Goldsmith
Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative
Journalism and the Headliner Award.

Nalder`s other awards include a 1996 Society of Professional Journalists
Excellence in Journalism Investigative Reporting Award and the 2001 Clarion
Award Investigative Reporting. Nalder and the P-I investigative team won the
2008 John Jay Award for Criminal Justice Reporting. In 1994, he received the
Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for his book, Tankers Full of
Trouble.

Nalder, 63, started his newspaper career as a reporter in Washington, eventually
joining the P-I in 1975. After leaving the P-I for The Seattle Times in 1983, he
joined the San Jose Mercury News in 2001 and returned to the P-I in 2004. He has
a bachelor`s in communications from University of Washington.

Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com) is one of the nation`s largest diversified
media companies. Its major interests include ownership of 15 daily and 49 weekly
newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times
Union; as well as interests in an additional 43 daily and 72 non-daily
newspapers owned by MediaNews Group, which include the Denver Post and Salt Lake
Tribune; nearly 200 magazines around the world, including Good Housekeeping,
Cosmopolitan and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations through
Hearst-Argyle Television (NYSE:HTV) which reach a combined 18% of U.S. viewers;
ownership in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, History and ESPN;
as well as business publishing, including a minority joint venture interest in
Fitch Ratings; Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features
distribution and real estate.

Hearst Newspapers
Paul Luthringer, 212-649-2540
pluthringer@hearst.com

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