Ex-Queens media owner eyes Nassau for news efforts
MEDIA
In this era of the shrinking media business, Steven Blank of East Hills sees opportunities.
Blank, who in 2006 sold his Queens-based TimesLedger Newspapers group to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has posted an online ad for a reporter to work for Blank Slate Media covering Nassau County politics and local communities. Blank said his plans are still being formulated, but it appears as though he wants to start both an online and a weekly print publication.
Queens, Blank said, is more heavily covered by weeklies than is Nassau. "In any area in Queens, I would have three competitors," Blank said. TimesLedger Newspapers published 16 weeklies and had a total circulation of nearly 50,000.
Blank, who was a reporter at the Kansas City Star and in New Jersey, said he sees an opportunity to provide local coverage in Nassau. And he knows advertising and marketing. His father owned a chain of consumer electronics stores in the metropolitan area.
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