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Latest Report Adds Kushner To The List Of Potential Newsday Suitors - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 Apr 2008 08:27 PM PST

Add Jared Kushner, owner of the New York Observer, to the pool of potential suitors for Newsday, according to the Wall Street Journal. Those already reported to be interested include…

Zuckerman On Newsday Bidding: Daily News Synergies; Comes Down To Price; Murdoch Always Overpays - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 25 Mar 2008 05:44 AM PST

Flipped over to MSNBC for a quick morning politics fix and caught Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News (among other holdings), talking about rumors of his interest…

10-K Watch: Tribune: Newsday Numbers; Disposals Planned; Interactive Revs Up 12 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 21 Mar 2008 08:57 AM PST

Privately-held Tribune has filed its 10-K, a day after reports suggested that the company was shopping Newsday. Also yesterday, the company released Q4 numbers showing it had swung to a…

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Newsday On The Block; Cablevision, News Corp. Interested: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 20 Mar 2008 07:13 PM PST

Tribune-owned Newsday, the Long Island-serving paper, is up for sale according to multiple reports. Both Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) (also based on Long Island) and News Corp (NYSE: NWS). are said…

Earnings: Tribune Swings To Loss In Q4 - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 20 Mar 2008 11:58 AM PST

Tribune Company posted a $78.8 million loss from continuing operations in Q4, compared to a profit of $239 the year before. For the full year 2007, Tribune reported income from…

Industry Moves: Tribune Hires Innovation Officer; What About Motivation Officer? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 12 Mar 2008 06:40 PM PST

And it certainly needs all the help it can get on innovation, and that elusive thing, motivation: Tribune has hired radio veteran Lee Abrams as its first-ever chief innovation officer,…

The Quadrant Goes Collective: Newspaper Ad Alliance Picks Sides - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 27 Feb 2008 08:34 AM PST

We hear that NYC-based online ad network Collective Media has won a bid to power quadrantONE, the online newspaper advertising alliance backed by The Tribune Company, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst…

NYT-Gannett-Trib-Hearst Combine To Form Local Online Ad Sales Company quadrantONE - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 14 Feb 2008 11:53 PM PST

This has been in works for a while as an alternative to the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) newspaper consortium, as well as the Google-newspapers ad effort, and now it is finally…

LA Times Names Stanton Editor; Staff Shake-Up Has Bellack And Barrett Heading Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 14 Feb 2008 01:57 PM PST

With all the talk of job cuts at the Tribune Company and New York Times in the last two days, here’s something a little different: the Los Angeles Times has…

Tribune Eliminating 400-500 Employees; 2 Percent Of Workforce; 100 At Trib; 100-150 At LAT - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 13 Feb 2008 11:41 AM PST

In yet another bid to cut costs, Tribune Co. will be cutting between 400-500 jobs, or around 2 percent of its total workforce, reports LA Times. The LA Times itself…

More Shakeup At Tribune: Interactive Head Replaced - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 11 Feb 2008 03:40 PM PST

The shakeup of Tribune under Sam Zell continues: Tribune Interactive President Tim Landon has been replaced on an interim basis by Mark Sotir, managing director of Zell’s Equity Group Investments.…

Industry Moves: MySpace; Sprint; Vehix; CGS; IHT; IAC; Fox - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 24 Jan 2008 04:05 PM PST

-- MySpace: Jeff Berman has been promoted to EVP-marketing and content from GM-MySpaceTV. He will lead the development of marketing initiatives and oversee the growth of the social network’s various…

LA Times Publisher, Former Editor Dispute Departure; Zell Emphasizes Autonomy - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 21 Jan 2008 02:56 PM PST

Push just came to shove at the LA Times, in a matter of speaking, with Tribune Company chairman and CEO Sam Zell coming down squarely on the business side in…

More Trouble For The LA Times; Top Editor Fired - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 20 Jan 2008 05:19 PM PST

The honeymoon is over at Tribune ... Jim O’Shea is out as editor of the LA Times—the second top editor to leave in 15 months over cost-cutting disputes. The WSJ…

Newspaper Roundup: Chicago Tribune; Scripps; Sun-Times; CareerBuilder; Tribune; McClatchy - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 16 Jan 2008 08:09 PM PST

-- Chicago Tribune: The Tribune Company-owned paper is ceasing weekday print classifieds as it seeks to cut costs and better integrate its web listings with CareerBuilder and the paper’s Sunday…

Newspaper Roundup: Belo; Seattle Times; The Morning Call - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 11 Jan 2008 02:26 PM PST

Belo: The Dallas-based media company’s board of directors has approved the spin-off of Belo’s (NYSE: BLC) TV and newspaper units into separate businesses. The plan was announced in early October.…

Industry Moves: New Tribune CEO Zell Appoints Two Top Execs, Five Board Members - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 20 Dec 2007 05:24 PM PST

Sam Zell didn’t waste any time as the new chairman and CEO of Tribune Company, (NYSE: TRB) hiring two senior execs and adding five directors to the board: -- Broadcasting…

It’s Official: Tribune Goes Private; Zell Takes Over, Invests Extra $65 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 20 Dec 2007 10:55 AM PST

Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB) has completed its going-private transaction and will operate under the Tribune Employee Stock Ownership Plan (Tribune ESOP) with Chicago real estate investor Sam Zell, who financed…

Updated: Tribune’s FitzSimons Resigns As Zell Takeover Nears; Funding Not Yet Finalized - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 19 Dec 2007 10:24 AM PST

Update: Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB) Chairman and CEO Dennis FitzSimons has made his resignation official and will leave the company at the end of the month. No further details about…

Broadband Content Bits: Joost/NBA/PBS; Chicago Tribune; MySpace; Freemantle - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 18 Dec 2007 03:41 PM PST

-- Joost: Two new agreements with two very different programmers: the NBA and PBS. With the NBA, Joost will run “Instant Classic” basketball games and video highlights for the remainder…

Industry Moves Roundup: Sun-Sentinel; CN; Orlando Sentinel; The Orchard; HipCricket; Google; CBS - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 14 Dec 2007 02:17 PM PST

-- Sun-Sentinel: Tribune-owned South Florida Sun-Sentinel has undertaken a major restructuring of its online unit. Kathy Skipper, the website’s GM and a 24-year Sun-Sentinel vet, has been laid off. Jeff…

Tribune’s November Revs Drop 3.3 Percent; Online Up 7.8 Percent, Classifieds Fall 26.2 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 12 Dec 2007 06:29 AM PST

The Tribune Company’s (NYSE: TRB) November revenue picture was pretty bleak, with online classifieds representing one of the few bright spots. Overall, revenues came in at $413 million, down 3.3…

Tribune Gets Waivers, FCC Approval - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 30 Nov 2007 04:23 PM PST

The FCC voted 3-2 Friday to allow Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB) to transfer control of its radio and TV stations to Sam Zell et al, knocking aside the last major…

Tribune Interactive Launches Branded Channels On YouTube - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 29 Nov 2007 08:08 PM PST

Tribune Interactive is launching branded channels on YouTube for its newspapers and TV stations. The focus differs a little for each category: Newspapers: Chicago Tribune et al feature “timely local…

More On FCC Chairman’s Plan For Tribune Buyout Approval, Cross-Ownership - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 Nov 2007 05:03 PM PST

The $8.2 billion buyout to take the Chicago Tribune private could get FCC approval as early as Friday under a new plan from FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, who proposes granting…