Cubs Sale Hurt By Economy: Cuban
The economic tumult shaking the country will affect the sale of the Chicago Cubs, prospective buyer Mark Cuban said: "Yeah, it's going to affect th...
The economic tumult shaking the country will affect the sale of the Chicago Cubs, prospective buyer Mark Cuban said: "Yeah, it's going to affect th...
Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago
Sam Zell spared no expense for his annual birthday bash Saturday night. "More than 800 Zell pals partied hearty at ''One Enchanted Evening'' in a ten...
Posted 09.25.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Tribune named a new editor of RedEye, its free tabloid, Thursday. Tran Ha, 30, replaces founding editor Jane Hirt, who became the Tribune...
Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 09.17.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Tribune will keep its full name but condense the number of sections from five to three, according to an all-but-final prototype of the red...
Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 09.16.2008 | Media
It would be hard to argue that Sam Zell really knows his way around the newspaper business. But does his floundering constitute grounds for legal acti...
Chicago Sun-Times | Bill Zwecker | Posted 09.12.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Tribune may be facing huge financial problems and potential bankruptcy, but that doesn't mean Trib owner Sam Zell personally has to worry ...
Adam Fendelman | Posted 09.12.2008 | Chicago
Using a legal tool called Name Server Spy from DomainTools, I have just discovered that as of Sept. 11, 2008 (as fitting a day as any) the Tribune Company's Tribune.com took over control of those domains. Does this reveal one of its new strategic directions?
Robert Reed | Posted 09.11.2008 | Chicago
Who's going to feel the wrath of UAL shareholder lawsuits? There's Tribune Co., which has nearly $13 billion in debt, and then there's Google, one of the richest and most profitable companies on the globe.
Robert Reed | Posted 09.08.2008 | Chicago
Well, you've got to hand it to the Tribune Co. It made people feel sorry for United Airlines, one of those of businesses the public just loves to hate.
Chicago Sun-Times | David Roeder | Posted 09.04.2008 | Chicago
Chicago Tribune readers accustomed to stand-alone news sections could see drastic changes when the paper introduces its redesign in a few weeks. Prot...
Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 08.26.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Tribune has long been nicknamed "The Trib." But if a redesign prototype being passed around the Web becomes the final choice, that nicknam...
Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 08.26.2008 | Chicago
Tribune Co. plans to have a deal to sell the Chicago Cubs by yearend, CEO Sam Zell said Tuesday. The company will choose from the current field of fi...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 08.21.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Tribune promoted Jane Hirt, the editor of its free daily tabloid Red Eye, to managing editor Thursday as part of an overhaul of the paper'...
Journal-Isms | Posted 08.18.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Tribune laid off 40 newsroom employees Friday, a disproportionate number of whom were journalists of color, according to Trib employees in...
Todd Andrlik | Posted 08.16.2008 | Chicago
Just beyond the security desk at the Tribune Tower is a hallway of historic newspapers with famous headlines. What's missing is The Tribune's most famous headline ever printed -- the November 3, 1948 "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" edition.
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 08.15.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago Tribune shed more than 40 newsroom employees today, which, coupled with last week's voluntary exit of more than 30 journalists, means the ...
Common Sense Journalism | Doug Fisher | Posted 08.12.2008 | Chicago
It's no secret Chicago Tribune designers have been under the gun to get a redesign of the paper done by the end of this month. But apparently more ma...
AP | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Times says publisher David Hiller has resigned after 21 months at the helm of Tribune Co.'s largest paper. The news ...
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media
The Chicago Tribune began informing staff Tuesday it will eliminate around 80 of its current 578 newsroom positions by the end of August and reduce th...
Radar | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media
The Los Angeles Times announced 150 editorial layoffs--on both print and Web, according to a memo just sent by Russ Stanton. The layoffs will be compl...
Chicago Tribune | Robert Manor and Phil Rosenthal | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
Tribune Tower, the neo-Gothic landmark that adorns Michigan Avenue near the Chicago River, is on the market. Tribune Co. Chairman and Chief Executive...
AP | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business
Nine potential buyers who have been preapproved by Major League Baseball have received the financial books on the Chicago Cubs, two people familiar wi...
New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 06.06.2008 | 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...
TheDeal.com | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business
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...
John McQuaid | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
Papers have to protect and nourish two things they already have -- reporting and the newspaper "brand." Original voices and journalistic credibility are pretty much all papers have left.
Mark Wahlberg is not a fan of a "Saturday Night Live" sketch from October 4th called "Mark Wahlberg Talks...
E&P reports that Sarah Palin was greeted with a chorus of boos at the Philadelphia Flyers game where she...
The state of the McCain campaign is drawing fire from its own ostensible allies....
At a rally in Bethlehem, Pa. last week, Cindy...
Imagine an election where one of the participants...
Does John McCain "pal around with terrorists?" Certainly...
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Tina Fey told TVGuide she'll be "done" if John McCain and...
With the presidential campaign approaching its final...
**SCROLL DOWN FOR SLIDESHOW** It looks like Sarah Palin has traded her...
Now that a full-scale economic crisis is upon us, many are left asking the complicated but necessary...
I don't know if Sarah would be into trying yoga. It can be a fairly...
PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks _ long popular...
Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago