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Tribune Agrees To Cubs Sale Deal Terms With Marc Utay, Now Has Two Offers To Buy Team: Reuters

Reuters | Posted 07.07.2009 | Chicago

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Tribune Co has agreed to terms for the sale of the Chicago Cubs to a group led by private equity investor Marc Utay, giving the company two offers to ...

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Sale Of Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field To Ricketts Family Finalized: Report

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 07.06.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — The Tribune Co. has reached a written agreement to sell the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and other assets to the family of TD Ameritrad...

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Dallas Morning News' Publisher Outsources Ad Sales To Tribune

MediaWorks | Jeremy Mullman | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

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CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- In what's believed to be a first-of-its-kind arrangement in the struggling newspaper industry, Belo's Dallas Morning News has t...

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Cubs Sale Negotiations Back On Track With Ricketts Family: Tribune

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago

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The Ricketts family's bid to buy the Chicago Cubs from Tribune Co. is gaining momentum, a week after the media company said it was "assessing other al...

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Sam Zell May Lose Control Of Tribune Company

Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal | | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media

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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...

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IRS Auditing Tribune Employee Stock Plan

AP | Posted 05.13.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Cubs Sale Likely To Miss Another Deadline Amid Delays

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.06.2009 | Chicago

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The sale of the Chicago Cubs has taken on the timeless quality of a baseball game. ...

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Tribune Picking Up Zell's Legal Bills In Blagojevich Case

AP | Posted 04.28.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Tribune Co. will pay the legal bills of chairman and chief executive Sam Zell related to a federal corruption investigation into forme...

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

Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune | Posted 04.15.2009 | Media

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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...

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Tribune Co. Discloses Government Probe Into Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Los Angeles Times | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media

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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...

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Tribune Could Have Made $45 Million Off Wrigley Field Deal With State

AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 04.07.2009 | Chicago

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Tribune Co. would have received as much as $45 million and a 5 percent stake in a leased Wrigley Field under a deal involvin...

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Goodbye Los Angeles Times

Stu Kreisman | Posted 04.05.2009 | Media

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I canceled my subscription to the LA Times today. It's become an embarrassment, like someone who wears an obvious toupee. They think they're fooling people, but they're not.

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Consolidation Is No Cure for Journalism Crisis

Craig Aaron | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

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Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose hometown San Francisco Chronicle is in trouble, asked Attorney General Eric Holder to consider loosening ...

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Tribune Tower Taken Off The Market

Crain's Chicago Business | Eddie Baeb | Posted 02.25.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Journalism Does Not Need To Be Saved, Newspapers Do

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 02.10.2009 | Media

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I see editorial writing in U.S. mainstream media, with a very few exceptions, as propaganda deprived of intellectual reflection. The public senses this as well, distrusts the media instinctively.

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Tribune Combining Operations Of CLTV, WGN Television Stations

AP | Posted 02.04.2009 | Chicago

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Tribune Co. plans to combine operations at two of its TV stations in hopes of creating the "largest and most powerful" television newsroom in the Chic...

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Where Have All The Chicago Reporters Gone?

Ryan Blitstein | Posted 01.27.2009 | Chicago

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Locals aren't getting the coverage we need and America is receiving a skewed perspective on the lives of 60 million-plus people in Chicago and other major cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Minneapolis.

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Cubs To Close Tribune Era Without World Series

Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 01.23.2009 | Chicago

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It looks as if the Tribune era of Cubs ownership will end without a World Series championship, just as the Wrigley family reign ended in failure in 19...

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Rickets Family To Buy Cubs And Wrigley Field For $900M

AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — A billionaire family of Chicago Cubs fans _ including one who first met his wife in the bleachers at Wrigley Field _ is set to purchas...

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Cubs Zero In On New Owner

Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal and Ameet Sachdev | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago

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Tribune Co. executives have chosen a favorite among three bids for the Chicago Cubs and have given that recommendation to the unsecured creditors comm...

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Tribune Co. Wants To Keep LA Times, WGN

Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal | Posted 01.19.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Chicago Cubs Bidding Goes Past Deadline

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 01.13.2009 | Chicago

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The never-ending auction hasn't ended. Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Cubs as well as the Chicago Tribune, was pushing prospective buyers to submi...

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CBS Can't Die

Ed Madison | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media

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Years earlier, right out of college, I was hired to join the team that launched CNN. Visionary Ted Turner had this crazy notion that people would want to watch 24 hours of non-stop news.

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The Final Chicago Cubs Bidders: Tom Ricketts, Marc Utay, Hersch Klaff

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

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The sale of the Chicago Cubs has come down to three finalists, nearly two years after the team's owner, Tribune Co., put the storied franchise and Wri...

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Chicago Cubs To Have New Owner Within Ten Days: Tribune

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 01.06.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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