-- McClatchy: North Carolina papers The News & Observer of Raleigh, and The Charlotte Observer are asking hundreds of staffers to accept buyouts. The News & Observer hopes at least…

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Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has acquired an additional 10 percent stake in CareerBuilder from the troubled Tribune for $135 million. That gives Gannett a 50.8 percent controlling interest in the online…

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Another Tribune Company exec departs… Clark Morehouse is the latest to leave Sam Zell’s house, exiting as head of Tribune Entertainment to join local digital broadcast network .2 (as in…

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As the print side keeps bleeding, the Los Angeles Times Media Group keeps trying to extend into other platforms, both offline and online: the parent of LAT newspaper has jointly…

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This is funny, if only in a non-funny way: Perhaps Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) Radio is concerned about Sam Zell poaching more of the company’s executives to run interactive at…

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When newspaper companies released their quarterly earnings for the past two years, the news tended to follow this arc: circ, print ad revenues tended to be down, while online kept…

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The embattled newspaper Los Angeles Times has named Eddy Hartenstein, the former head of DirecTV, as its new publisher, a story first broken by DHD last month. He will fill…

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Privately held Tribune isn’t bucking any industry trends… The Sam Zell-owned company has reported Q2 revenue of $1.1 billion, down 5.7 percent from $1.17 billion in the year ago quarter.…

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Yes, believe it or not, some things are doing well at the embattled LA Times, and as expected, it is the online side. Some traffic numbers, from the company itself,…

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Michael Silver, a former veteran exec with the The Tribune Company for two decades, is taking on the new post of executive director of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. The post…

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-- *Yahoo* Newspaper Consortium: While Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) does not release the financials related to its Newspaper Consortium, but some of the ad and content alliance’s members do. Last week,…

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In a long memo posted on Romenesko, Lee Abrams, the radio vet who joined Tribune Company in March as its first chief innovation officer, takes aim at general criticisms who…

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More changes at Zell-owned Tribune, which recently announced fresh job cuts… Ann Marie Lipinski, editor since early 2001, has announced her resignation. She will be replaced by Gerould Kern, a…

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More aggressive cost cutting at Tribune, which is doing everything in its power to avoid default… The flagship paper Chicago Tribune announced today that it will eliminate 80 newsroom positions…

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Getting some much-needed cash, Sam Zell’s Tribune has arranged a $300 million bank loan from Barclays, with the proceeds going towards debt payments. It’s basically a quick, temporary measure as…

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Gannett (NYSE: GCI), which has a big budget to do digital M&As, is buying out the rest of local sales info site ShopLocal, from the other partners Tribune and McClatchy…

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The most troubled big newspaper in U.S. is cutting off 250 jobs, including an unprecedented 150 positions in editorial, to bring its expenses down in line with declining revenues.The Los…

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-- Boston Globe Sale?: Speculation about the Boston Globe’s future as a New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) asset is about as persistent as YHOO-MSFT rumors. The latest from The…

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Tribune Co.’s Orlando Sentinel debuted on newsstands today in its stripped-down form. WSJ takes a look at the new layout—which incorporates more news digests, blog summaries and splashier graphics—and basically…

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-- Tribune: As industry economics deteriorate, speculation heightens that Sam Zell’s uber-leveraged Tribune Co. will be forced to file bankruptcy sooner rather than later. S&P analyst Emile Courtney told Bloomberg:…

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Scott Smith, president of Tribune Publishing since 2005, is stepping down. In a memo (via Chicago Tribune) Smith told the company: “Sam, Randy and I agree it’s time for new…

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The Tribune announcement to measure journalists based on their productivity and move to a 50-50 ad-news ratio came midway through the Florida Press Association’s annual meeting, in which I participated.…

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Analysts may be fretting over the new model newspaper outlined last week by Tribune CEO Sam Zell, but Al Neuharth, perhaps the last person who truly revolutionized newspapering, likes what…

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The financial situation at the Tribune Co. is worse than we thought, Sam Zell, the company’s CEO, told investors during a conference call. So, expect a series of vast changes,…

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Tribune may shed more baggage as it seeks to climb out from its enormous debt load. The privately-held company is weighing a sale of Tribune Media Services, a unit that…

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