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Tribune Employees Lose What Little Stake They Had Left In Company - Posted 4 days, 11 hours ago
No big shocker here: Sam Zell's bankruptcy of the Tribune Company is going to end up costing its employees more than just their jobs or perks, it's also going to retroactively remove their stock ownership in the company.
To be fair, employees will still receive their first share allocations of ESOP, a... [FishBowlNY]
KTLA-TV Gets A New Sales Team - Posted November 4, 2008
We got the following press release in our inbox today:
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4, 2008 -- KTLA-TV, a Tribune Company television station, today unveiled a new leadership team for its national and local sales operation, announcing the hiring of three talented sales executives with extensive experience in the Los Angeles market.
Patricia Tang... [FishBowlLA]
Sam Zell Considers Buying the Orange County Register - Posted October 23, 2008
The Financial Times reports:
Tribune Company is considering whether it can buy the Orange County Register and fuse it with its flagship Los Angeles Times to consolidate the Los Angeles newspaper market, as owner [Sam Zell] scrambles to find ways to save the debt-swamped newspaper company.
Tribune has held talks over a... [FishBowlLA]
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]
Sam Zell's Idea of a Joke - Posted April 1, 2008
The Tribune Co. issued this April Fool's Day press release:
TRIBUNE COMPANY ANNOUNCES NAME CHANGE
Zell Tells Employees of Switch in an Email;
Company Announces Revenue Generating Efforts To Offset Debt
CHICAGO, April 1, 2008 -- Tribune Company, the largest employee-owned media company in the nation, today announced it has changed its name to ZellCoMediaEnterprises... [FishBowlLA]
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]
Picketting At The L.A. Times? - Posted March 11, 2008
LAT pressman are planning to protest a round of layoffs that they say is retaliation against last years' vote by the pressroom employees to unionize.
Ed Padgett has more on his blog:
This action is not only about thirty-one employees being retaliated against, it's about thirty-one families losing their livelihood, which many of... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted December 21, 2007
Sam's Big Day: Billionaire Sam Zell took over control of the Los Angeles Times and the Tribune Company on Thursday in what the LAT calls, "a debt-heavy deal that creates tremendous opportunities and risks for one of America's top newspapers." Wanna hear Sam Zell talk about it? There's video on the... [FishBowlLA]
LAT Finds Its "Missing Ingredient" - Posted May 31, 2007
And just what was that missing ingredient? Another chef.... [FishBowlLA]
