8 posts and columns on Tribune

Perfect Market Raises Another $9 Million to Help Papers Sell Old News

in Media on January 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Perfect Market doesn’t promise to save the newspaper business. But the company says it can help papers wring more money out of the stuff they’re already making.

SCO to Sponsor Next Season of “The Biggest Loser”

in News on June 11, 2010 at 9:31 am PT

SCO’s long-running campaign against Linux may have finally been dealt a death blow. Late Thursday, the judge presiding over the company’s legal battle with Novell rejected its request for a new trial and upheld an April jury decision that determined Novell, not SCO, to be the rightful owner of key Unix copyrights.

Los Angeles Times Outsources Reporting to NBC, and Hopes You Notice

in Media on April 9, 2009 at 4:43 am PT

Remember when the New York Times started selling off part of its front page to CBS earlier this year, generating a brief bit of buzz? The Los Angeles Times does, and now it’s trying to one-up that stunt: Instead of just running an ad on the paper’s front page, it’s running an ad that’s masquerading as one of the paper’s news stories.
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Tribune Files for Chapter 11; Who’s on the Hook?

in Media on December 8, 2008 at 12:07 pm PT

As predicted, Sam Zell’s Tribune Co. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In the company’s initial filing, it lists assets of $7.6 billion and $12.9 billion in liabilities. Much of that debt belongs to big banks, of course–J.P. Morgan has more than $1 billion by itself. But Tribune owes lots of money to lots of media companies, too.

Shhhhhh! Media, Tech Moguls Meeting Today. Don’t Tell Anyone!

in Media on November 11, 2008 at 8:08 am PT

Under normal circumstances, if the CEOs of big companies like Cisco, Microsoft, and Comcast speak in front of an audience of bigwigs, it’s news. But you’re unlikely to hear what John Chambers, Steve Ballmer and Brian Roberts say today and tomorrow at Quadrangle’s Foursquare conference–no press allowed. Unless…

Is Google Making Us Stupid? … Obviously.

in News on September 11, 2008 at 8:19 am PT

Is Google making us stupid? The answer to that question, recently posed by Nick Carr in The Atlantic, is a resounding yes. At least in the case of Sun Sentinel publisher Tribune. How else to explain the company’s claim that Google is largely to blame for the six-year-old news story that gutted the United Airlines share price this week?