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  • July 2008

    • LA Times Insider Launches Anti-Zell Blog

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 21, 08 8:14 AM CDT

      LA Times Insider Launches Anti-Zell Blog

      Heads continue to roll at the Tribune Company, but one staffer is aiming to prove the pen is mightier than Sam Zell's ax, reports the New York Times, with new blog TellZell.com. The site is airing the gripes of Tribune's disgruntled journalists, and is finding plenty of fodder—from top-level resignations at the LA Times to publishing the unreleased list of employees facing layoffs. More »

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      newspaper  • journalism  • blog  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell  • layoffs  • Los Angeles Times  • insider information

    • LA Times Publisher Exits

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 15, 08 2:08 AM CDT

      LA Times Publisher Exits

      A bad day for the Tribune Company got even worse yesterday with the resignation of Los Angeles Times publisher David Hiller, Reuters reports. Hiller is leaving after less than 2 years with the paper as Tribune owner Sam Zell prepares to cut jobs again and reduce pages at his papers. The editor of the Chicago Tribune, another of Zell's media properties , quit earlier yesterday. More »

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      newspaper  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell  • Los Angeles Times  • publisher  • David Hiller

    • Chicago Tribune Editor Resigns Amid Cutbacks

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 14, 08 3:58 PM CDT

      Chicago Tribune Editor Resigns Amid Cutbacks

      Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski handed in her resignation today after 7 years in the top post at the Tribune Company's flagship paper. Lipinski's departure comes a week after the 161-year-old newspaper told its staff it would eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs amid a broad effort to cut costs as advertising and circulation revenues decline at its newspapers nationwide. More »

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      newspaper  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell  • Los Angeles Times  • Chicago Tribune  • editor  • Baltimore Sun

  • June 2008

    • Washington Post Top Editor Calls It Quits

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 23, 08 8:40 PM CDT

      Washington Post Top Editor Calls It Quits

      The Washington Post 's executive editor is retiring, he said today, after a 17-year run that included many prizes, painful staff cuts, and the rise of the Internet. A low-profile but highly respected figure, Leonard Downie Jr. told his staff he would miss the paper. "At the same time I'm ready to do this, because so much further change now needs to take place at the newspaper and Web site, and someone else should be tackling that." More »

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      newspaper  • retirement  • Washington Post  • editor  • newsroom cuts  • newsrooms

    • France's Top Newspaper Faces Crisis

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 23, 08 12:40 PM CDT

      France's Top Newspaper Faces Crisis

      In the past year, the French newspaper Le Monde has endured the worst crisis in its history, losing its editor-in-chief and failing to appear on newsstands for days during a series of strikes. Now its 340 staffers have been given an ultimatum, writes the Guardian : Unless about 20% accept voluntary resignations by next week, the independent paper will be taken over by corporate owners. More »

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      France  • newspaper  • corporate governance  • Le Monde

    • Broker Breaks Ranks to Rant on Profession's 'Gibberish'

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Jun 21, 08 10:41 PM CDT

      Broker Breaks Ranks to Rant on Profession's 'Gibberish'

      A London broker who wrote a popular, anonymous newspaper column that lambasted the greed, superficiality, and "gibberish"-peddling nature of his profession is going public, quitting the financial world, and, of course, writing a book about it all, Bloomberg reports. “We didn't invent greed,” said Geraint Anderson, who revealed his identity in TheLondonPaper this week, “but we have certainly become its finest exponents.” More »

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      Great Britain  • business  • newspaper  • columnists  • analyst guidance

    • Zell's Tribune Co. Heads Toward Default on Loans

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Jun 19, 08 5:43 PM CDT

      Zell's Tribune Co. Heads Toward Default on Loans

      As the newspaper industry continues its accelerating skid into the red, even billionaire Sam Zell's Tribune Company is on track to default on its massive loans as soon as the end of the year, an analyst predicts. The parent of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times is far from alone. Bloomberg takes a look at the industry as it struggles to overcome historic lows in advertising revenue. More »

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      media  • newspaper  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell  • Chicago Tribune

    • Zell Deserves Jail for 'Dumbed Down' Papers

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 11, 08 12:35 PM CDT

      Zell Deserves Jail for 'Dumbed Down' Papers

      Sam Zell isn't just diminishing the great newspapers he bought in acquiring the Tribune Company, Harold Meyerson writes in the Washington Post —he's doing a grave disservice to cities that have supported the likes of the Los Angeles Times . "Zell has taken bean counting to a whole new level," leaving the paper "dumbed down" as he trims news coverage to equal space devoted to advertising. More »

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      newspaper  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell  • Los Angeles Times

    • News Writers Should Strive to Write as Much as Possible, Says Tribune Co.

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 10, 08 3:47 PM CDT

      News Writers Should Strive to Write as Much as Possible, Says Tribune Co.

      The Tribune Co., which as you have probably guessed is the company that produces the Chicago Tribune, among other newspapers, is bringing a revolution, or a big change, to the news business. Tribune Co.’s Chief Operating Officer, Randy Michaels, has decided to start measuring productivity by word count, and Michael Kinsley of the Washington Post and the LA Times , which is a Tribune paper, thinks it’s a fabulous, superb, nifty, keen, downright great, and perhaps even visionary idea. More »

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      newspaper  • journalism  • Tribune Company  • print journalism  • productivity  • words  • newspaper editorials

    • Sam Zell: Saving Newspapers, or Burying Them?

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 9, 08 5:58 AM CDT

      Sam Zell: Saving Newspapers, or Burying Them?

      Sam Zell and his Tribune Company announced last week that they would trim 500 pages of news each week from the conglomerate's dozen newspapers, including the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune . But is a paper split 50-50 between news and ads the solution for an industry in crisis? The New York Times looks at the viability of a radical plan. More »

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      advertising  • media  • newspaper  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell  • Los Angeles Times  • Chicago Tribune  • downsizing

    • Fake Airline Has Philly Giggling

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 6, 08 7:44 PM CDT

      Fake Airline Has Philly Giggling

      An ad for "Derrie-Air" airlines made Philadelphia readers the butt of a publicity joke today, the AP reports. The owner of two newspapers and an ad agency revealed that the airline—which claimed to charge passengers by weight, and be carbon-neutral—was cooked up to prove the power of advertising. And it's generating online buzz aplenty, a media company says. More »

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      airline  • newspaper  • Philadelphia  • weight  • hoax  • advertisements

    • Surprise, Webheads: Newspaper Sales Are Up

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 2, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Surprise, Webheads: Newspaper Sales Are Up

      Newspaper circulation is up worldwide despite slipping numbers in the US and Europe, the AP reports. Officials at a worldwide newspaper conference said today that India and China are leading the 2.6% increase, thanks to higher literacy, incomes, and more leisure time. "They say newspapers and print are dead," one official said. "Well, I just don't see it." More »

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      Internet  • newspaper  • Associated Press  • advertising sales  • online newspapers  • circulation

  • May 2008

    • Reporters Can't Let Trauma Stop Them

      newser  |  Quill  |  May 17, 08 1:38 PM CDT

      Reporters Can't Let Trauma Stop Them

      One North Carolina reporter is still haunted by the horror of rapes and murders she witnessed every day. But her empathy also made her a better reporter, and that’s worth it, Melissa Manware writes in Quill . When readers, particularly former victims, responded to stories, it made “the work worth the heartache.” But Manware is still tormented by the ringing phone of a cyclist killed by a city bus. More »

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      murder  • crime  • rape  • newspaper  • reporter  • opinion  • reporting  • trauma

    • Cablevision Buys Newsday

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 12, 08 8:07 AM CDT

      Cablevision Buys Newsday

      Cablevision will pay Tribune Co. $650 million for Newsday , the companies said this morning. The cable operator's bid for the Long Island daily and its free offshoot amNew York topped $580 million offers from New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman and News Corp., reports the Wall Street Journal. More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • newspaper  • Newsday  • Cablevision  • Mortimer Zuckerman

  • April 2008

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