Bankruptcy Judge Defers Action On Lawsuit Against Tribune Co.
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has deferred action on the Tribune Co.'s request to halt a lawsuit alleging that Chairman Sam Zel...
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has deferred action on the Tribune Co.'s request to halt a lawsuit alleging that Chairman Sam Zel...
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
Saying his investment in Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co. represents "certainly the most amount of money I've ever lost in a single deal" billionair...
Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Most of us have experienced the dumb boss, the arrogant boss, the mean boss. But, as the accompanying collection of famous business tyrants illustrate...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger downplayed his dismal approval rating in a Tribune/WGN poll Thursday and alleged that the low numbers were pa...
Chris Maloney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
Tribune's vast multimedia holdings were supposed to act as a hedge against a downturn in any one area -- that was before the Internet and the "perfect storm" financial crisis.
New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
But other people close to the restructuring talks, speaking anonymously because the discussions were supposed to remain private, caution that the majo...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
Oh, the tangled webs that Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell can weave. The long process he spun for selling the Cubs probably cost his debt-strapped compa...
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigl...
New York Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
So much for Sam Zell, newspaperman. The developer, who arranged a controversial $11.7 billion employee buyout of newspaper giant Tribune only to see...
Chicago Sun-Times | DAVID ROEDER | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media
Eight months after the filing, two sources familiar with the process said creditors are working on a reorganization plan that elbows Zell aside. The c...
Editor and Publisher | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
CHICAGO A day after Tribune Co. asked a bankruptcy court for more time to complete its reorganization plan, Chairman and CEO Sam Zell said Tuesday the...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago
Real estate investor and much-reviled Tribune Company owner Sam Zell is worth around $5 billion, making him the richest man in Chicago in 2008, accord...
Tom Alderman | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment
The bright rays of the coming summer brings the bright stars of pop publishing.
Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal | | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
Chicago-based Tribune Co. and its creditors are in the early stages of negotiating a plan of reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court that sources said...
AP | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The Internal Revenue Service is auditing a Tribune Co. deal involving its employee stock ownership plan, a major piece of Sam Zell's p...
AP | Posted 05.29.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Tribune Co. will pay the legal bills of chairman and chief executive Sam Zell related to a federal corruption investigation into forme...
Paul Dailing | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media
The dead rising from their graves to consume the living and overrun the earth, like so many other new trend stories, first broke on Twitter. In its e...
Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media
In an interview with Bloomberg TV Wednesday, Sam Zell admitted today that his 2007 purchase of the Tribune Company was a "mistake" and likened the com...
Los Angeles Times | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media
Tribune Co. has disclosed that the U.S. Department of Labor has opened an investigation into the company's employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP. Th...
AP | Posted 05.01.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Tribune Co. was secretly negotiating with then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich on a deal in which the state would buy Wrigley Field even as feder...
AP | Posted 04.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Internal documents from ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's campaign reveal that there was a plan to ask billionaire Tribune Co. Chairman Sa...
Associated Press | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
A published report says federal prosecutors have interviewed Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell as a potential witness in their criminal investigation of f...
Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago
A month into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, Chicago-based Tribune Co. is beginning to form a strategy for holding the company's major assets together...
Chicago Sun-Times | Chris Fusco, Natasha Korecki, Tim Novak and Dave McKinney | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago
Here's who's who among most of the names behind the letters and numerals prosecutors use to label those players in the Blagojevich case, according to ...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago
Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Cubs, is close to selecting a winning bid for the team from three finalists, according to people familiar with the s...
AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago