Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (LEE) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Welcome to the Lee Enterprises 2026 second quarter webcast and conference call. The call is being recorded and will be available for replay at investors.lee.net. At the close of the planned remarks, there will be an opportunity for questions. Participants assessing this call webcast may submit written questions through the platform and they will be answered during the call as time permits. Any remaining questions will be followed up on after the call. A link to a live webcast can be found at investors.lee.net. I will now turn the call over to your host, Jared Marks, Vice President, Finance. Thank you, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today. With me on this morning's call are Nathan Becke, President and Chief Executive Officer of Josh Reinholz, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Joe Battistoni, Chief Revenue Officer, and David Hoffman, Chairman of our Board of Directors. Earlier today, we issued a news release announcing preliminary results for our second fiscal quarter of 2026. The release and accompanying presentation are available at investors.lee.net. As a reminder, this morning's discussion will include Forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These statements are subject to certain risks, trends, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. Such factors are described in this morning's news release and in our SEC filings. We will also reference certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in the tables accompanying the release. With that, I'll turn the call over to our chairman, David Hoffman. Thank you, Jared, and good morning, and thank you for joining us. Excuse me. As I open this call, I'd like to say that it's a priv...