She's So Fine.(Lauren Rich Fine)

American Journalism Review,  July, 2001  by BASHEDA, VALARIE

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Wall Street's media analysts have an impact on the way publicly held newspaper companies operate. Few are as highprofile as Merrill Lynch's Lauren Rich Fine.

Lauren Rich Fine grew up in a house near Cleveland where three newspapers were delivered every day. But even at a young age, it wasn't the black-and-white columns of the Cleveland Press or the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal that caught her fancy.

It was something of a slightly different color.

"I was always interested in making money," she admits.

At the age of 12, Fine asked her parents to help ...

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