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Truthdig
February 24, 2018
Harrison Gray Otis, patriarch of the Chandler clan, the man who created the L.A. Times. As was the case for Otis, the challenge facing Soon-Shiong is immense. Years of ownership by the Tribune Company, now Tronc, along with a sharp local and national decline in newspaper subscribers and advertisers,Ãâà...
Chicago Tonight | WTTW
February 7, 2018
When the decision was made to drop the slogan from the nameplate, it wasn't commented upon in the Tribune itself, but other newspapers did take note. An article from a Massachusetts newspaper quoted then Tribune president Robert Hunt as saying, “The Tribune has never been greater than it is today,Ãâà...
New York Times
February 7, 2018
But The Times has struggled in recent years as newspapers across the country have lost heft and cultural importance. Last decade, the paper weathered the cost-slashing reign of Samuel Zell, who took Tribune Company into bankruptcy. In 2014, after emerging from bankruptcy proceedings, the companyÃâà...
CNNMoney
February 1, 2018
... Times as publisher in 2008 by Sam Zell, the billionaire who infamously drove the Tribune Company into the largest bankruptcy in media industry history. In 2011, Hartenstein was promoted to president and CEO of Tribune. Three years later, after Tribune emerged from bankruptcy and spun its newspaperÃâà...
New York Times
January 30, 2018
Tronc, which publishes newspapers including The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, is trying to leave behind a bruising period marked by rising turmoil ... (Tribune Media and Tronc, formerly called Tribune Publishing, had been one corporation, Tribune Company, before a spinoff of the newspaperÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
November 16, 2017
Tribune Media was the owner of the Chicago Tribune until the former Tribune Company split in two in 2014. The Chicago Tribune and its sister newspapers are now owned by Tronc. "This has a huge impact," said Andrew Schwartzman, an expert on media law at Georgetown University. He added that theÃâà...
New York Times
September 4, 2017
Owning The News gives Tronc newspapers in the country's three biggest media markets — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — along with markets including Baltimore and Hartford, which the company ... The News was long owned by The Tribune Company, which spun off Tribune Publishing in 2014.
The Pasadena Star-News
May 8, 2017
The Tribune Company's second largest shareholder, the Chandler family, has called for a breakup of the media giant, which owns 11 newspapers, ... The Chandlers want the Tribune to separate broadcasting from the newspaper business as well as explore other alternatives such as breaking up andÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 4, 2016
After years of bankruptcy as part of Tribune Co. and since spinning off and going public in 2014, Tribune Publishing — owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other major daily newspapers — has acquired a range of other titles as well as endured the ups and downs of the market. An attemptÃâà...
Robert Feder (blog)
December 31, 1999
Monday's best comment: John Hartness: What made the Tribune company great? Joseph Medill and his grandson, Colonel ... McCormick embraced radio and television by creating WGN and the Mutual Broadcasting network when those industries threatened newspapers. Working with his cousin, JoeÃâà...
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