The Chicago Tribune informed its staff yesterday that it will be eliminating around 80 of its current 578 newsroom positions by the end of August, as well as reducing the number of pages it publishes by 13 or 14 percent each week. The paper is also planning to redesign the look of its paper, with [...]
Bob Gremillion has been named interim publisher for the Chicago Tribune. Gremillion expects to hold the job for a couple of months maximum and said that he would decline a permanent job if offered. E and P (June 29, 2008)
Chairman and Chief Executive of Tribune Co. Sam Zell announced that he would consider selling the Tribune Tower as a way to maximize its value this past Wednesday. Zell does not plan on selling unless the price is absolutely high enough and he will use the proceeds to pay down the debt from his $8.2 [...]
Tribune Company newspapers, namely the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, will be printing fewer newspapers and employing fewer journalists according to Samuel Zell, the chairman and chief executive of the company. The goal of the company is to have a 50/50 split between news and advertisements, thus eliminating over 500 pages a week across [...]
Tribune Media Services, the content syndication and licensing division of Tribune Company, is working together with Amazon Kindle’s eBook. They have developed a political magazine which will feature 25 opinion articles and no advertisements in each issue. Opinionated, as it has been named, will get content from Tribune-syndicated columnists who will offer views on economics, affairs, [...]
Gannett Co., Hearst Corp., The New York Times Co., and Tribune Co. formed quadrantONE in February to help their 175 newspaper and TV station web sites compete for covetted ad dollars. Yesterday, it was announced that an additional 26 newspaper companies and 138 websites will be represented by quadrantONE. The companies represented will reach websites [...]