April 28, 2024
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Related column: A Tronc Tomorrow: The Return of Gannett and the Uberfication of News Anyone looking for drama in today’s Tronc second-quarter financials was disappointed. No dramatic announcements, internally or externally — and not a peep out of Gannett of its intentions to mount a new ...
Read MoreAfter noisily consuming much of the news industry oxygen during the first half of 2016, the quiet currently emanating from tronc HQ seems almost unsettling. There have been no tronc announcements since the big news of Tribune Publishing re-naming on June 20. Gannett hasn’t made a peep since ...
Read MoreHow much of the much-ballyhooed and much-ridiculed nerve center of Michael Ferro’s promised artificial intelligence empire can be found on the fourth, fifth and tenth floors of Wichita’s High Touch building on south Main Street? SNT Media now produces much of the commercially oriented ...
Read MoreGannett CEO Bob Dickey is slowing down in his quest to acquire Tribune Publishing, but he has no plans on stopping. Today, Dickey’s Gannett took a public deep breath – and vowed to persist in its unwanted wooing of Tribune. Surprising some, Gannett put no more money on the table. The company ...
Read MoreAs Gannett’s strategy to make a quick kill of Tribune Publishing goes south, could a lawsuit save it? Large Tribune investors have all but threatened to file suit. They’ve charged that Tribune chairman Michael Ferro isn’t representing the interests of all shareholders, as a leader of a ...
Read MoreIn 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 Dearborn wrote: Today, I am pleased to announce ...
Read MoreGannett’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 office of law firm Sidley Austin, Tribune will hold its ...
Read MoreNow, in the likely last chapters of the Tribune saga, parody precedes event. As Justin Dearborn – sans his boss, Tribune board chairman Michael Ferro – outlined the company’s new “billion-dollar” thinking Wednesday, a column in LA’s Downtowner proceeded to steal his strategic thunder. Entitled ...
Read MoreOn 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 — notably the planned “content monetization ...
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