Ingersoll and Journal Register: Chronology
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Beginnings
1925 Ralph Ingersoll edits New Yorker
1930 edits Luce's Fortune
1931 Fianna Fail under Eamon de Valera founds The Irish Press newspaper in Eire, basis of Irish Press Group subsequently controlled by de Valera family
1936 Ingersoll edits Luce's Time
1940 founds PM
1941 Marshall Field III backs PM
1942 Ingersoll drafted
1945 returns from war in Europe
1946 resigns from PM
1948 Marshall Field sells PM to Bartley Crum
1948 PM closes
1949 Irish Press launches The Sunday Press newspaper
1954 Irish Press launches The Evening Press newspaper
Junk bonds
1984 Ralph Ingersoll II buys St Louis community papers, forms Suburban Journals of Greater St Louis
1985 buys The Trentonian
1987 buys Tomlinson family's Morristown Daily Record (est 1900) for US$155m
1987 buys Birmingham Post & Mail from Yattendon for £60m
1987 Ingersoll sells Morristown Daily Record to Goodson Newspaper Group
1989 Ingersoll ceases to provide management services for Goodson
1989 launches St Louis Sun
1989 takes 50% stake in Eamon de Valera Jr's Irish Press Newspapers group
1989 St Louis Sun closes
Journal Register Co
1990 Ingersoll's US operations collapse, taken over by Warburg, Pincus as Journal Register Company (JRC)
1991 MBO of Birmingham Post & Mail
1995 IPN's Evening Press closes
1993 buys Torrington Register-Citizen from Eagle
1995 JRC buys 42 weeklies from Capital Cities/ABC for US$31m
1995 buys New Britain Herald for US$11m
1995 buys Middletown Press from MediaNews for US$5.5m
1996 buys Taunton Daily Gazette for US$18m
1997 IPO of Journal Register Co (18 daily newspapers, 118 non-daily papers)
1998 Journal Register buys 25 Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio titles from Goodson Newspapers
2000 sells 38 suburban weeklies to Lee Enterprises
2001 buys Montgomery Newspaper Group (24 non-daily suburban Philadelphia publications) from Metroweek Corp
2002 Irish Press plc wins €6.35m damages against Warburg Pincus
2004 Journal Register buys 21st Century Newspapersgroup ( four dailies, 87 non-daily publications) for US$415m