Newsonomics: Tribune Publishing Wraps Its Arms Around San Diego — and All of Southern California

Update: Sales announcement at $85 million here   Southern California, poking northward into Santa Barbara and stretching southward to the Mexican border, will soon become Tribune Territory. In a deal intended to be soon announced, Tribune Publishing will buy UT San Diego (the former San ...

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What Are They Thinking? Tribune in Final Bidding to Buy U-T San Diego

Tribune Publishing is one of three final bidders on the acquisition of U-T San Diego, the entity formerly known as the San Diego Union-Tribune, according to several confidential sources. For Tribune Publishing, spun off from Tribune Broadcasting six months ago, San Diego—California’s second ...

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The Newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome Implosion (and Coming Sale)

Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Today, we’ll hear official word of the demise of Project Thunderdome, one of the news industry’s highest-profile experiments in centralized, digital-first, mobile-friendly, new-news-partner ...

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