Lindsay Chaney (born in 1951) is a senior news editor at ''

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''. He joined ''Variety'' in 1999. Previously he was a business editor and writer at the ''Long Beach Press-Telegram'', covering the aerospace industry and finance. He has written for the ''

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'' magazine. He is the co-author, with Michael Cieply, of a book about the heirs of

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entitled ''The Hearsts: Family and Empire'', published by

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. Chaney, an editor at the

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before it folded in 1989, had access to original Hearst documents and letters. they were also able to interview Hearst's sons and other close relatives and colleagues. Chaney and Cieply portrayed

as a man who stunted his sons' lives, stopping them from going further in college than he had been able to do, giving them elaborate job titles and grand salaries but no real authority, mocking their ideas for the family business, and writing a will that put the family assets into a trust over which they had no authority. Chaney attended the

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and was an editor of

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. In 1975 when the journalists at the ''Herald Examiner'' won the right to form a union, Cheney was vice-president of the local. Chaney was spokesman for the Committee that organized the

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in Los Angeles.

Book

*''The Hearsts: Family and Empire'' with Michael Cieply

References

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