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In a move that, even amid all the nastiness of the Tribune/Gannett war, we would still have to consider stunning, Tribune Publishing has renamed itself — to tronc. In a memo to Tribune staff this afternoon, CEO Justin ...
Gannett’s hopes for a quick acquisition of Tribune Publishing, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and a half dozen other regional newspapers, are looking increasingly problematic. Tomorrow at the Los Angeles ...
The Los Angeles Times has just lost an important digital leader, as S. Mitra Kalita — just named as one of the ten most poachable players in media — leaves her job as managing editor for digital strategy of the paper to become vice president of ...
Say one thing for Michael Ferro: the would-be showbiz aficionado can certainly pull a rabbit out of a hat. The chairman of Tribune Publishing proved it again Monday when he got his board to reject much larger rival newspaper company Gannett’s ...
Tribune Publishing chairman Michael Ferro hasn’t said much in public since Gannett, the largest newspaper company in the U.S., went public with its hostile takeover bid for his company. But inside the company, publisher of a slate of struggling ...
On Thursday, Tribune Publishing chairman Michael Ferro took to the airwaves, selling investors on his rejection of a seemingly generous takeover bid by Gannett. The company’s spent recent days talking up its potential for growth on its own ...
Meet Michael Ferro. Ferro, 49, is not yet three months in to his stint as chairman of Tribune Publishing, the newspaper company that owns and operates such august titles as The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore Sun, and he ...
If you think keeping track of Tribune Publishing’s many ups and downs has been hard for media observers, consider the issues within the company. For the second year in a row, TPUB’s annual 10-K filing has had to note “material weaknesses in the ...
What started as a marathon has turned into an obstacle course. In today’s wee hours, just before dawn, Tribune Publishing was named as the “winner” in the Orange County Register bankruptcy auction. Tribune’s winning bid of $56 million in cash – ...
For those who have been following the ongoing tragicomedy of California’s dying newspaper industry, today, March 16, marks a climax. And as with all amazing stories, the moments leading up to that climax have made it a nail-biter. The real ...
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