------ -------------------------- FORM 4 OMB APPROVAL ------ -------------------------- [ ] CHECK THIS BOX IF NO OMB Number: 3235-0287 LONGER SUBJECT TO Expires: December 31, 2001 SECTION 16. FORM 4 Estimated average burden OR FORM 5 OBLIGATIONS hours per response.... 0.5 MAY CONTINUE. SEE -------------------------- INSTRUCTION 1(b). UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Print or Type Responses) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Maloney James V. Pulitzer Inc. (PTZ) Director 10% Owner --------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- ---- --- (Last) (First) (Middle) 3. IRS Identification 4. Statement for X Officer (title Other (Specify Number of Reporting Month/Year ---- below) --- below) 900 North Tucker Boulevard Person, if an entity 10/2001 Corporate Secretary --------------------------------------------- (voluntary) ------------------- ------------------------------------- (Street) 5. If Amendment, 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing Date of Original (Check Applicable Line) St. Louis MO 63101 (Month/Year) X Form filed by One Reporting --------------------------------------------- -------------------- ------------- --- Person (City) (State) (Zip) Form filed by More than One --- Reporting Person ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TABLE I -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Title of Security 2. Trans- 3. Transac- 4. Securities Acquired (A) 5. Amount of Se- 6. Owner- 7. Nature (Instr. 3) action tion or Disposed of (D) curities Benefi- ship of In- Date Code (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) cially Owned at Form: direct (Instr. 8) End of Month Direct Benefi- (Month/ (Instr. 3 and 4) (D) or cial Day/ ------------------------------------ Indirect Owner- Year) Code V Amount (A) or Price (I) ship (D) (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock, $.01 par value 10/05/2001 A V 38 A $37.6380 1,410(1) D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over) * If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). SEC 1474 (3-99) POTENTIAL PERSONS WHO ARE TO RESPOND TO THE COLLECTIONS OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM ARE NOT REQUIRED TO RESPOND UNLESS THE FORM DISPLAYS A CURRENTLY VALID OMB CONTROL NUMBER.

FORM 4 (CONTINUED) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED (Ee.Gg., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Title of Derivative | 2. Conver- |3. Trans- |4. Trans- |5. Number of |6. Date Exer- |7. Title and Amount |8. Price Security | sion or | action | action | Derivative | cisable and | of Underlying | of (Instr. 3) | Exercise | Date | Code | Securities Ac- | Expiration | Securities | Deriv- | Price of | (Month/ | (Instr. 8)| quired (A) or | Date | (Instr. 3 and 4) | ative | Deriv- | Day/ ~~| |~~ Disposed of (D)| (Month/Day/ ~~| |~~ Secur- | ative | Year) ~~| |~~ (Instr. 3, 4, | Year) ~~| |~~ ity | Security ~~| | |~~ and 5) ~~| | |~~ (Instr. 5) ~~| | | | |~~-----------------------------------~~--|~~ ~~| | | | |~~Date |Expira- ~~| |~~ Amount or ~~| | | |~~--------------------------~~-----|~~ Exer- |tion | Title | Number of ~~| | | |~~ Code |V | (A) |(D) |cisable| Date ~~| |~~ Shares | ------------------------|-------------|----------|-------|----|--------|---------|-------|--------|--------|-----------|------------ ~~| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |~~ ----------- -------------|-------------|----------|-------|----|--------|---------|-------|--------|--------|-----------|------------ ~~| | | | | | | | | | |~~ ---------------------- --|-------------|----------|-------|----|--------|---------|-------|--------|--------|-----------|------------ ~~| | | | | | | | | | |~~ ------------------------|--------- ----|----------|-------|----|--------|---------|-------|--------|--------|-----------|------------ ~~| | | | | | | | | | |~~ ------------------------|-------------|------- ---|-------|----|--------|---------|-------|--------|--------|-----------|------------ ~~| | | | | | | | | | |~~ ------------------------|-------------|----------|-------|- ---|--------|---------|-------|--------|--------|-----------|------------ ~~| | | | | | | | | | |~~ ------------------------|-------------|----------|-------|----|--------| ---------|-------|--------|--------|-----------|------------ ~~| | | | | | | | | | |~~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Number of | 10. Ownership | 11. Nature of Derivative | Form of | Indirect Securities | Derivative | Beneficial Beneficially | Security: | Ownership Owned at End | Direct (D) | (Instr. 4) of Month | or Indirect (I) | (Instr. 4) | (Instr. 4) | ------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------- ~~| |~~ ------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------- ~~| |~~ ------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------- ~~| |~~ ------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------- ~~| |~~ ------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------- ~~| |~~ ------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------- ~~| |~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Explanation of Responses: ~~NOTE:~~Note 1: ~~TABLE~~Table I. ~~ITEM~~Item 5. ~~THE~~The ~~TOTAL~~total ~~INCLUDES~~includes .~~101~~220 ~~SHARES~~shares ~~ACQUIRED~~acquired ONon ~~MAY~~August 1, 2001 @ $5249.~~735~~263 ~~PER~~per ~~SHARE~~share ~~PURSUANT~~pursuant TOto Aa ~~REINVESTMENT~~reinvestment OFof ~~CASH~~cash ~~DIVIDENDS~~dividends ~~RECEIVED~~received ONon ~~SHARES~~shares ~~OWNED~~owned ~~THROUGH~~through ~~THE~~the ~~PULITZER~~Pulitzer ~~INC~~Inc. 1999 ~~STOCK~~Employee ~~PURCHASE~~Stock ~~PLAN~~Purchase Plan. /Ss/ ~~James~~JAMES V. ~~Maloney~~MALONEY ~~August~~November 109, 2001 **Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal -------------------------------- ---------------- ~~Signature of Reporting Person(1) Date (1) Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal~~ Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). **Signature of Reporting Person Date Note: File three copies of this ~~form~~Form, one of which must be manually signed. Page 2 If space ~~provided~~ is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. ~~Page~~SEC 21474 (3-99) Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of 2information contained in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB number.

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