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Chapman recognized for mix of business sense, social responsibility.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
MIAMI _ Alvah Chapman has been known so long for his civic leadership, for casting light on problems and people society often ignores _ from the homeless to Homestead after Hurricane Andrew _ that's it's easy to forget his greatest successes came from the profit-driven world of big business, as chairman of Knight Ridder.
"I've been in nonprofits so long I have to remind people I had a business to run," Chapman, 80, says with a soft laugh. Run it, he did. As steward of Knight Ridder, The Miami Herald parent company and newspaper conglomerate he served as president beginning in 1974, and later as CEO and chairman, Chapman led the company's profits and stock on an ...
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