George Randolph Hearst III

{{Short description|Newspaper publisher in New York, US}}

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George Randolph Hearst III (born 1955) is the publisher and CEO of the Times Union newspaper in Albany, New York, a director of the Hearst Corporation and a member of the wealthy Hearst family.

He is the second child of George Randolph Hearst Jr. and Mary Astrid Thompson and great-grandson of William Randolph Hearst. Hearst graduated from Pepperdine University in 1977.{{Cite web|title=Biography: George Hearst {{!}} Charting a Course for Change: Transforming the Albany Times Union in a Wired World|url=https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/caseconsortium/casestudies/15/casestudy/www/layout/case_id_15_id_22_c_bio.html|access-date=2021-09-27|website=ccnmtl.columbia.edu}} He was previously the director of operations of the Times Union and then its associate publisher and general manager.[https://web.archive.org/web/20021206032446/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_27/b3790095.htm Business Week - July 8, 2002 - Parting the Veil at Hearst] He is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Albany Institute of History & Art,http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=767176 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213093444/http://www.timesunion.com/ASPStories/story.asp?StoryID=767176 |date=2009-02-13 }} a member of the board of directors of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center[http://www.spac.org/spac-about/spac-about.asp?varID=5 Saratoga Performing Arts Center - Board of Directors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229231922/http://www.spac.org/spac-about/spac-about.asp?varID=5 |date=2006-12-29 }} and St. Peter's Health Care Services, a hospital in Albany.[https://web.archive.org/web/20071013071905/http://www.stpetershealthcare.org/press.cfm?ID=495&PID=164 St. Peter's Health Care Services Press Release, Tuesday October 17, 2006 - Massry Family Donates $1 Million To Name Atrium in St. Peter's Expansion.] Photo caption identifies Hearst as a director. He sued the producer of the "reality-TV" movie Hopelessly Rich, which aired on VH1 in 2003, over his portrayal in the made-for-TV movie about a con man who had stolen his identity and impersonated Hearst.{{cite news

|url = http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/105540p-95475c.html

|author = Rush & Molloy

|title = VH1's 'Hearst': Any relation to reality?

|work = New York Daily News

|date = August 1, 2003

|accessdate = 2007-01-23

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060525213809/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/105540p-95475c.html

|archivedate = 2006-05-25

}}[https://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2004-07-15 IMDB, "News" Jul 15], 2004 He is part of the ownership group of the Albany Empire of the Arena Football League, which began play in 2018.{{cite web | url=http://www.arenafootball.com/articles/the-arena-football-league-returns-to-albany | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030230907/http://www.arenafootball.com/articles/the-arena-football-league-returns-to-albany | url-status=usurped | archive-date=October 30, 2017 | title=The Arena Football League Returns to Albany | publisher=arenafootball.com | date=October 24, 2017 | accessdate=October 30, 2017}} Mr. Hearst bought a farm and wooded land near his home in Colonie, New York, leasing part of the land to his daughter Emma, a chef, for her to run a small farm and farm stand. {{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=Steve |date=2016-10-06 |title=Ex-restaurant pros flee kitchen for peace of farm|url=https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-features/article/Ex-restaurant-pros-flee-kitchen-for-peace-of-farm-9778757.php |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=timesunion.com |language=en}}