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Another Lee Abrams Memo - Posted July 21, 2008
Tribune Company Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams has issued another memo of questionable coherence, this one entitled "Think Piece: Behind the Drama at the Tribune."
There's a reason our company is getting so much dramatic coverage in the blogosphere and in print. There are some dramatic issues facing Media companies, and we're... [FishBowlLA]
Lee Abrams Wants Reviewers To See Into the Future - Posted July 15, 2008
Somehow we missed Lee Abrams' memo yesterday (couldn't see past the blood and carnage to find this in our inbox), but just to keep you all posted, the Tribune Company's innovation man thinks that concert reviews would be WAY COOLER if they somehow predicted the future and told you whether a... [FishBowlLA]
More Zell-otry: Chicago Tribune to Cut 80 Newsroom Jobs - Posted July 8, 2008
Sam Zell strikes again: the Chicago Tribune says it will "eliminate around 80 of its current 578 newsroom positions by the end of August and reduce the number of pages it publishes by 13 percent to 14 percent each week."
Don't think of them as layoffs, kids. Think of them as an... [FishBowlLA]
Lee Abrams Has Us Pretty Well Pissed Off - Posted June 2, 2008
We're used to making jokes about the outside people who come into newsrooms and mess them all up with their complete lack of understanding about what makes a newspaper a newspaper.
But we're having a hard time laughing at the latest lunatic musings from Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams:
Then... [FishBowlLA]
Lee Abrams Has More Analogies Than an Abstinence-Only Second Grade Teacher Trying To Explain What a Condom Is - Posted March 25, 2008
After wowing us with his analogy of newspapers as the new Rock'n'Roll, Lee Abrams, Chief Innovation Officer, for Tribune sends his troops this e-mail:
Someone asked me why I was moving to Tribune and continued with the comment that newspapers were the print version of the passenger train. I thought that... [FishBowlLA]
Morning Reading List, 03.13.08 - Posted March 13, 2008
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The Chicago Tribune reports, "Lee Abrams, who is credited with inventing FM radio's album rock format... [FishBowlDC]
Message From LAT New "Innovation Officer:" 'News Is the New Rock n Roll' - Posted March 13, 2008
New "Innovation Officer" Lee Abrams sends a letter to the troops, trying to get them as jazzed as he clearly is about the future of print media. How does he begin his spiel about where he'll take the company in the future? With the line "Imagine it's 1952 ..."
Peace Out, Clevland!... [FishBowlLA]
