Sam Zell

Bankruptcy Judge Defers Action On Lawsuit Against Tribune Co.

AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago


WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has deferred action on the Tribune Co.'s request to halt a lawsuit alleging that Chairman Sam Zel...

Tribune Won't Leave Bankruptcy This Year: Zell

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...

The Worst Bosses Of All Time (PHOTOS)

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...

Stroger Blames Zell, Bad Data For Low Poll Numbers

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...

Tribune: Decline of a Media Giant

Chris Maloney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago


Chris Maloney

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.

Sam Zell May Not Leave Tribune Following Restructuring

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...

How Zell Cost Tribune $150 Million In Botched Cubs Deal

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...

Cubs Sale To Ricketts Family Finalized

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...

Sam Zell "Ready To Walk Away" From Tribune: Report

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...

Tribune Creditors Working To Force Sam Zell Out: Report

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...

Sam Zell: Tribune May Exit Bankruptcy This Year

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...

Compare Your Income To Sam Zell's Net Worth (VIDEO)

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...

Baldacci, Coben and Connelly: The Boys of Summer's Audiobooks - Reviewed

Tom Alderman | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment


Tom Alderman

The bright rays of the coming summer brings the bright stars of pop publishing.

Sam Zell May Lose Control Of Tribune Company

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...

IRS Auditing Tribune Employee Stock Plan

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...

Tribune Picking Up Zell's Legal Bills In Blagojevich Case

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...

Journalism versus the Zombies

Paul Dailing | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media


Paul Dailing

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...

Sam Zell On Tribune Purchase: "I Made A Mistake"

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...

Tribune Co. Discloses Government Probe Into Employee Stock Ownership Plan

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...

Project Elwood: Blagojevich, Tribune Held Secret Talks About State Buying Wrigley Field

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...

Blagojevich Targeted Tribune Chief Zell For $25,000 Donation

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...

Feds Interviewed Tribune Co. Chief Sam Zell In Blagojevich Probe

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...

Tribune Co. Wants To Keep LA Times, WGN

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...

Who's Who In The Blagojevich Complaint

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 Cubs To Have New Owner Within Ten Days: Tribune

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...