NEW YORK — Sam Zell, the real estate mogul who took Tribune Co. private a year before the media company was forced to enter bankruptcy protectio...
AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday granted the Tribune Co. more time to submit a Chapter 11 reorganization plan. Judge K...
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...
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...
AP | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal bankruptcy judge cleared the way Thursday for the Tribune Co. to sell the Chicago Cubs and the storied Wrigley Fiel...
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...
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...
Crain's Chicago Business | Eddie Baeb | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
Tribune Co. has scrapped plans to put the Tribune Tower up for sale because of cratering real estate prices and the company's late-year bankruptcy pro...
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...
Bloomberg | Linda Sandler and Lindsay Fortado | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Sidley Austin lawyers are asking as much as $1,100 an hour for bankruptcy work on Tribune Co., surpassing the rates charged by ...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 01.30.2009 | Chicago
Before Tribune Co. sought bankruptcy protection on Dec. 8, the Chicago-based media company and Chicago Tribune owner had spent nearly $3 million for l...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media
Sam Zell didn't cause the crisis in modern journalism, but he did turn a superb and profitable institution into a basket case. The people who work there, and the people who read it, deserve way better.
Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Rod Blagojevich said today he didn't view it as surprising that Tribune Co. filed for protection under the federal bankruptcy code and said he be...
Crain's Chicago Business | Mike Colias | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago
Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy filing won't scrap or delay plans to sell the Chicago Cubs, the team said Monday. The team was not included in Tribune's Cha...
AP | Posted 01.07.2009 | Media
CHICAGO — Tribune Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, other newspapers and the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, has hired fi...
AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago