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Mark Cuban Wants Zell's Cubs, Wrigley Field

Chicago | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

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Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, one of the Major League Baseball-approved bidders for the Chicago Cubs, expects to receive confidential financia...

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Tribune Planning Big Cuts: Fewer Papers, Firing Reporters

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

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Tribune Company newspapers like The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune will quickly cut costs -- by printing fewer papers and employing fewer j...

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Tribune's Sam Zell Moving Forward With Chicago Cubs Sale

TheDeal.com | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business

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Tribune Co. chairman and CEO Samuel Zell said Thursday that the offering memorandum for the Chicago Cubs should go out to potential buyers next week a...

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Murdoch, Zell Appointed to AP Board

AP | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media

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WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell, two media figures who led major newspaper acquisitions in recent months, are among four new members jo...

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Sam Zell: "Tough Guy In A Mean Business"

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media

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Since taking control of the Tribune Company in December, Sam Zell has drawn a lot of attention in journalism circles for speeches laced with profanity...

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Sam Zell Tells LA Times Employees "I'm Your Viagra"

Variety | CYNTHIA LITTLETON | Posted 03.30.2008 | Media

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Sweeping through his newly acquired business units with characteristic bluster and bluntness, it didn't take too long for Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell t...

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Media Mogul Battle! Murdoch, Zuckerman Both Eyeing Another New York Paper

Huffington Post | Posted 03.29.2008 | Media

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As first reported yesterday by Crains New York, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch — who recently acquired Dow Jones (and the Wall Street Journa...

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LA Times Names New Editor, The 4th Time In 3 Years

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The Los Angeles Times named a new top editor on Thursday, Russ Stanton, three weeks after the previous editor, James E. O'Shea, was forced out for res...

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LA Times To Lay Off Over 100 Staffers

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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There's a big divide over who should run the L.A. Times, and before Sam Zell and publisher David Hiller announce their choice, they're getting some di...

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Sam Zell Tells LA Times Staffers: Watch Porn At Your Desks!

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Tribune chief Sam Zell had a meeting with the staff of The Los Angeles Times today that was so wildly entertaining it puts to shame the one he held at...

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The Honeymoon Is Over At Tribune

Forbes | Louis Hau | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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In the weeks since Sam Zell led a buyout of Tribune, the real estate mogul has been meeting with some of his wary new employees, reportedly making a g...

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Zell's New Tribune Employee Handbook: "Coming To Work Drunk Is Bad Judgment"

Los Angeles Times | Molly Selvin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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How much should a company's culture reflect its chief executive, especially one who prides himself on being a blunt and innovative -- some might say a...

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Traders See Zell's Tribune Deal As Riskiest Big Buyout

Wall Street Journal | Dwight Cass and Lauren Silva | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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The bankruptcies of Revco and Federated heralded the end of the 1980s buyout boom. Traders and lenders are starting to wonder which of the current LBO...

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Bullish Zell Seals Deal For Tribune Company

Los Angeles Times | Thomas S. Mulligan, James Rainey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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For the second time in eight years, control of the Los Angeles Times changed hands Thursday, passing from a staid Chicago conglomerate to a private co...

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FCC Head Wants To Relax Media Ownership Rules

New York Times | Stephen Labaton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The head of the Federal Communications Commission has circulated an ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing...

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Zell: I'm Not Selling L.A. Times

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Chicago real estate magnate and Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell said Tuesday he had no plans to sell the Los Angeles Times to any of the moguls who previou...

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