{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0000058361-26-000071","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"LEE","cik":"0000058361","company_name":"LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc","filed_at":"2026-09-30T13:55:00+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-09-30T13:56:00.128490+00:00","generated_at":"2026-10-12T14:00:34.170546+00:00","sec_items":["5.02","7.01","9.01"],"event_type":"leadership","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.35,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.35,"confidence":"high","headline":"Lee Enterprises adds Gregory Hoffmann, son of chairman David Hoffmann, to board","bullets":["Board appointed Gregory Hoffmann, 37, effective Sept 24, 2026; he serves until the 2028 annual meeting and joins the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.","Hoffmann is Co-CEO of Hoffmann Family of Companies and CEO of Hoffmann Commercial Real Estate; at Osprey Capital he led acquisitions totaling several billion dollars.","He is the son of David Hoffmann, Lee's chairman and majority stockholder; no grant was made beyond the standard non-employee director compensation program.","Related-party ties: David Hoffmann bought 10,909,440 Lee shares in a Feb 5, 2026 private placement; a May 14, 2026 Hoffmann Media Group deal pays Lee $135,000/quarter plus 20% of EBITDA.","CEO Nathan Bekke cited Hoffmann's financial expertise as Lee advances digital transformation; Lee operates 193 owned and managed brands across 28 states."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000058361-26-000071","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000058361-26-000071.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000058361-26-000071.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000058361-26-000071.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58361/000005836126000071/0000058361-26-000071-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58361/000005836126000071/lee-20260924.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-10-12T14:00:34.170546+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}