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...
Los Angeles Times | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media
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...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago
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...
Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.06.2009 | Media
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.
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...
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media
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.
AP | Posted 03.07.2009 | Chicago
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...
Ryan Blitstein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 02.23.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 02.22.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal and Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.22.2009 | Chicago
Tribune Co. executives have chosen a favorite among three bids for the Chicago Cubs and have given that recommendation to the unsecured creditors comm...
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...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.13.2009 | Chicago
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...
Ed Madison | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media
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.
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago
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...
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...
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 01.26.2009 | Media
Over his long business career, Sam Zell has undoubtedly many times smirked at those who have reported failures whilst claiming, "It was not my fault." Now, Zell may well be smirking into the mirror.
Jeff Jarvis | Posted 01.20.2009 | Media
Why not go ahead and turn off the presses and the trucks and turn the LA Times into a pure news enterprise, disaggregated from its production and distribution businesses?
Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.16.2009 | Media
It's the secret campaign against the Tribune's editorial page that stands out, at least to those of us who offer up opinions for a living. It may be the endorsement we've only dreamed about.
Wall Street Journal | Cam Simpson | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media
Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald ordered the FBI to arrest Rod Blagojevich before sunrise Tuesday in order to stop a cr...
New York Times | David Carr | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media
For the last few years, newspapers have been smacked around for lacking relevance, but the industry has finally found a compelling spokesman: Rod R. B...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 01.11.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed documents from the Chicago Tribune's parent company in the corruption investigation of Gov. Rod Bl...
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 01.10.2009 | Chicago
Tribune Company CEO Sam Zell confirmed on CNBC Wednesday that he was contacted by the FBI in connection with the federal corruption probe of Gov. Rod...
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media
Can Tina Brown salvage the dilapidated print news industry?
Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media