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== McCarthy Group ownership ==
From 1987 until 2011, [[ES&S]]'s primary owners were the Omaha World-Herald and [[McCarthy Group]]; in 2011, the World-Herald sold its shares to the Group, making it the majority owner. However, Bev Harris uncovered in 2002 that the McCarthy Group was actually owned by World Investments, a subsidiary of the World-Herald. This tangled ownership web gives the Omaha World-Herald a much more significant role in ES&S's ownership. So it's worth investigating how long they owned the McCarthy Group, how large the share was, and if they still own it.

[[John Gottschalk]], president, CEO, and publisher from 1989 to 2007, has sat on the boards of both the McCarthy Group and ES&S. He still sits on both boards to this day. Gottschalk's goal was diversifying the World-Herald away from the newspaper business to its other investments. So it's plausible that the World-Herald acquired an investment in the McCarthy Group around the early 1990s. But the ownership history/details deserve a more in-depth investigation.