{"id":7425,"date":"2008-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"proxy-fight-looms-for-media-general-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/proxy-fight-looms-for-media-general-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Proxy Fight Looms for Media General, Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dailypress.com &#8211; RICHMOND &#8211; Seats on Media General Inc.&#8217;s board of directors might not be as easy to obtain for a dissident shareholder group that had recent success gaining access at the New York Times Co.<\/p>\n<p> Harbinger Capital Partners is seeking changes at the Richmond-based newspaper publisher and television station operator by nominating a slate of three directors at the company&#8217;s annual meeting this spring.<\/p>\n<p> The hedge fund, which holds about 18 percent of the Class A shares of Media General, was recently able to get the Times to support two people nominated by the hedge fund as directors.<\/p>\n<p> But the company that publishes the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Tampa Tribune and Winston-Salem Journal doesn&#8217;t plan on giving in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/business\/dp-biz_mediageneral_0401apr01,0,4817683.story\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dailypress.com &#8211; RICHMOND &#8211; Seats on Media General Inc.&#8217;s board of directors might not be as easy to obtain for a dissident shareholder group that had recent success gaining access at the New York Times Co. Harbinger Capital Partners is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}