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 | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
SAN FRANCISCO — Newspaper headlines have skewered money lenders for dubious decisions that stoked the recession. Now the financiers are starting...
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...
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...
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...
Ted Goeglein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
The Cubs' old pile of bricks stinks of inebriated resignation. It's time for Wrigley Field to be gutted of the past and rebuilt for the future.
AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
WILMINGTON, Del. — The sale of the Chicago Cubs moved closer Tuesday as a bankruptcy court judge said the team can go to the family of billionai...
AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
NEW YORK — The Chicago Cubs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, a step that will allow their owner to sell the baseball team in a...
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...
Bloomberg News | Christopher Stern | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago
U.S. antitrust officials approved Tribune Co.'s sale of the Chicago Cubs baseball team to the Ricketts family, which founded TD Ameritrade Holding Co....
Chris Maloney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
Tribune's vast multimedia holdings were supposed to act as a hedge against a downturn in any one area -- that was before the Internet and the "perfect storm" financial crisis.
New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
But other people close to the restructuring talks, speaking anonymously because the discussions were supposed to remain private, caution that the majo...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
Oh, the tangled webs that Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell can weave. The long process he spun for selling the Cubs probably cost his debt-strapped compa...
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigl...
New York Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
So much for Sam Zell, newspaperman. The developer, who arranged a controversial $11.7 billion employee buyout of newspaper giant Tribune only to see...
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...
Crain's Chicago Business | Ed Sherman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago
If you're a regular reader of the Tribune sports section, you've noticed that Sam Farmer is writing columns on the NFL and Chris Dufresne is weighing ...
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 | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The corporate owner of the Chicago Cubs is considering having the baseball team file for bankruptcy protection as a legal step to hast...
Reuters | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago
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...
MediaWorks | Jeremy Mullman | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
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...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 07.28.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal | | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
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...
AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago