About: George Randolph Hearst III

George Randolph Hearst III (born 1955) is the publisher and CEO of the Times Union newspaper in Albany, New York, and a director of the Hearst Corporation. He is the second child of George Randolph Hearst Jr. and Mary Astrid Thompson and great-grandson of William Randolph Hearst. Hearst graduated from Pepperdine University in 1977. He was previously the director of operations of the Times Union and then its associate publisher and general manager. He is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Albany Institute of History & Art, a member of the board of directors of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and , a hospital in Albany. He sued the producer of the "reality-TV" movie , which aired on VH1 in 2003, over his portrayal in the made-for-TV movie by a con man who had stolen his identit