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Tribune Company To Pay Back $170 Million In Debt

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media


CHICAGO — Tribune Co., the owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other news outlets, said Tuesday it will pay back $170 millio...

Tribune Company Papers To Give Up AP For One Week

AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media


CHICAGO — Tribune Co., owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and several other news outlets, will not use most Associated Press co...

Judge To Weigh Whether Tribune Can Pay 2008 Employee Bonuses, Severance Payments

AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media


WILMINGTON, Del. — The Tribune Co. can pay more than $13 million in bonuses to almost 700 employees for their work last year, a federal bankrupt...

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...

Leno to Take Over 10PM: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 9, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media


Shelly Palmer

After Conan O'Brien takes over the Tonight Show in May, Jay Leno will begin hosting a show at 10pm on NBC. The move coincides with Jeff Zucker's pla...

Obama Makes Broadband Availability Key Issue: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 8, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media


Shelly Palmer

President-elect Barack Obama announced that broadband availability would be a major part of his public works project. In a video distributed over th...

Tribune Company To Drop AP

Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media


Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major ...

What the Tribune's Zoning Series Missed

David Hoyt | Posted 10.17.2008 | Chicago


David Hoyt

The Chicago Tribune's zoning series missed the half of the story that corresponds to the half of the city known as the South Side.

Two White Guys "At the Movies"

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago


Esther J. Cepeda

It's 2008 and some black dude is running for president, but the movie review show based in Chicago - which has one of the largest black and Latino populations in America--couldn't find one single movie writer, reviewer, or blogger "of color" to fill one of the seats?

Tribune Planning Big Cuts: Fewer Papers, Firing Reporters

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


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

The Honeymoon Is Over At Tribune

Forbes | Louis Hau | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


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...

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

Los Angeles Times | Molly Selvin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


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...

Traders See Zell's Tribune Deal As Riskiest Big Buyout

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


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...

Tribune Employees Who Smoke To Be Assessed $100/Month Penalty

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


In an effort to motivate workers to kick unhealthy habits, U.S. companies are hitting them where it hurts: in their wallets. But meddling in workers'...

Gannett and Tribune Team Up To Promote Local Entertainment Guides

PaidContent | Joseph Weisenthal | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and Tribune (NYSE: TRB) have announced the creation of Metromix LLC, a joint venture that will promote and expand Metromix.com, a ...