What Splitsville Tells Us — and New Intrigue in L.A.
First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Earlier, related posts: Tribune’s Latest Lease on Life Split ‘Ems — & Then There Was Gannett ... Read More
April 24, 2024
First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Earlier, related posts: Tribune’s Latest Lease on Life Split ‘Ems — & Then There Was Gannett ... Read More
It’s a Koch-around. The unexpected, and real, interest of Charles and David Koch in buying all the Tribune papers has set off a public and labor furor ("The Newsonomics of the Kochs Rising and Uprising"). While the AFL-CIO itself has mounted a quite public protest, two of Tribune’s owners — ...
Read MoreCritics can say what they want about the diminishment about the L.A. Times. Its news presence and ability to set agendas, through its reporting and opinion pages, is certainly reduced, but it’s still got the only megaphone of its kind in town. As Gabriel Kahn, a University of Southern ...
Read MoreThe new board’s mandate, of course, is to maximize its take on the sale. Tribune newspaper profits run at the roughly $200 million level, maybe a third of which comes out of L.A. So, take the market multiple of 3 or 4 times that number as a price — or $600 million-plus — for the eight papers, ...
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