Think Again: The End of Newspapers and the Decline of Democracy
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets -- without the hope for "next year."
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets -- without the hope for "next year."
Jack Davis | Posted 03.10.2012
Tonight, I have decided what I am going to do with the rest of my life. I want to be a journalist when I grow up. And work for the New York Times.
The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 02.20.2012
His suit argues that the chairman of the media company should be paid along with other creditors should a court rule that his buyout of the firm was a...
AP | Posted 01.23.2012
WILMINGTON, Del. — Tribune Co., which is working to emerge from bankruptcy protection, has agreed to pay former CEO Randy Michaels up to $725,00...
AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 01.01.2012
WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal judge on Monday rejected Tribune Co.'s plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection, along with a rival plan from diss...
AP | Posted 12.14.2011
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — A veteran media executive and former Tribune Co. CEO has been charged with drunken driving in southwest Ohio. Middletown pol...
AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 12.05.2011
DOVER, Del. — A bankruptcy judge in Delaware has authorized Tribune Co. to pay millions of dollars in bonuses to managers. Tribune says it need...
AP | Posted 09.17.2011
CHICAGO — The top executive at the Chicago Tribune will oversee six other Tribune Co. daily newspapers as part of a reorganization that will eli...
AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 08.16.2011
CHICAGO — Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts will have no problem spending on free agents, and said the jobs of general manager Jim Hendry and manager M...
AP | Posted 08.15.2011
CHICAGO — The Chicago Tribune has launched an expanded print edition of its newspaper with more local, investigative and other coverage. The ne...
AP | Posted 07.06.2011
CHICAGO — Tribune Co. has selected the publisher of its largest newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, to be its CEO as it tries to end nearly 2 1/2...
AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 06.13.2011
WILMINGTON, Del. — A hearing to determine the fate of the Tribune Co.'s proposed reorganization plan resumed Tuesday with attorneys for Tribune ...
The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011
A week after resigning from his post as Tribune CEO, Randy Michaels told the Wall Street Journal that he hopes to return to a career in media. "I m...
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON and MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels appears poised to resign so the troubled media company can focus on emerging from bankruptcy protection...
Chicago Reader | Michael Miner | Posted 05.25.2011
A few high-fliers, as the expression goes, made out like bandits. For instance David Hiller, CEO of the Los Angeles Times before he left the company i...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — The chief executive of Tribune Co. has informed staffers that a top executive he suspended this week after sending an inappropriate e-...
nytimes.com | DAVID CARR | Posted 05.25.2011
Mr. Michaels, a former radio executive and disc jockey, had been handpicked by Sam Zell, a billionaire who was the new controlling shareholder, to run...
Time Out Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011
The Chicago Tribune's community blogging product, ChicagoNow, has hosted a hate-filled, racist rant by blogger Joe the Cop entitled "The ghetto shooti...
thewrap.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Eisner running to the Tribune Company, the man in charge of the Los Angeles Times? That seems to be the word -- and, actually, it does make pe...
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on Tuesday downplayed reports that he is being considered to head media company Tribune Co. after...
Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011
It's easy to regard Sam Zell's Tribune management troubles as just another case of corporate buffoonery in an age of excess.
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011
Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels resigned Friday, pressured by tales of raunchy behavior that likened him to the ringleader of a college fraternity hous...
Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011
The hair-trigger firing of corporate-media journalists, commentators and execs for single acts of offensive speech has gotten way out of hand.
Lee Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
I believe it is important to state the facts as they apply to my recent and abrupt departure from Tribune Company.
Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: Forbes' Jeff Bercovici reports that Tribune Co. executive Lee Abrams has been suspended from his role as chief innovation officer. Bercovici o...
Eric Alterman | Posted 05.23.2012