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                                                                      EXHIBIT 24

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints ROBERT C. WOODWORTH and ALAN G.
SILVERGLAT, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents,
with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign Pulitzer Inc.'s Annual
Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, and any amendments thereto, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission and New York Stock Exchange, Inc., granting
unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or each of them, or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.


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           Signature                                    Title                                     Date
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<S>                                  <C>                                                <C>
      /s/ Robert C. Woodworth                 Director; President and                     March 13, 2002
---------------------------------              Chief Executive Officer
       (Robert C. Woodworth)                (Principal Executive Officer)

      /s/ Alan G. Silverglat                Senior Vice President-Finance                 March 13, 2002
---------------------------------    (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
        (Alan G. Silverglat)

         /s/ William Bush                             Director                            March 13, 2002
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          (William Bush)

      /s/ Susan T. Congalton                          Director                            March 13, 2002
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       (Susan T. Congalton)

         /s/ Ken J. Elkins                            Director                            March 13, 2002
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          (Ken J. Elkins)

        /s/ Alice B. Hayes                            Director                            March 13, 2002
---------------------------------
        (Alice B. Hayes)

        /s/ David E. Moore                            Director                            March 13, 2002
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         (David E. Moore)

      /s/ Emily Rauh Pulitzer                         Director                            March 13, 2002
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      (Emily Rauh Pulitzer)

      /s/ Michael E. Pulitzer                         Director                            March 13, 2002
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       (Michael E. Pulitzer)

       /s/ Ronald H. Ridgway                          Director                            March 13, 2002
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        (Ronald H. Ridgway)

     /s/ James M. Snowden Jr.                         Director                            March 13, 2002
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     (James M. Snowden, Jr.)
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