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• Report: San Diego Union Tribune Owner Platinum Bids $35 Million For Boston Globe

  PaidContent - 2009-08-07

  Private equity firm Platinum Equity, which specializes in acquiring distressed companies, wants to add the Boston Globe to its newspaper holdings, the paper reported today. Sources tell the Globe the bid is $35 million, plus the assumption of $59 million in pension liabilities. The Beverly Hills-based firm picked up...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Tribune Co., Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, New York Times, Staci D. Kramer

• Media Roundup: Facebook Backtracks on Terms of Service Flap, The Pirate Bay Has its Day in Court and More

  BNET - 2009-02-18

  In Today's Media Roundup: Facebook backtracks on Terms of Service flap, The Pirate Bay has its day in court, Politico on track to make millions, New York Times is the paper of record on the Web, but stock down by half, Many channels switch to digital today, Sirius and XM...

  Tags: Facebook, Tribune Co., Search Engine, Media, Terms Of Service, Salary, Pirate Bay, Debt Payment, Benefits, Personal Finance, Payroll Solutions, Investment, Human Resources, Finance, Sean Blanda

• Media Roundup: New York Times May Charge for Content, After Adjustment, Super Bowl Top Rated of All Time and More

  BNET - 2009-02-04

  In Today's Media Roundup: New York Times considering charging for content, After rating adjustment, Super Bowl top rated of all time, Disney misses earnings, Gannett Stock hits an all-time low, Tribune gets permission to trim severance packages, Time Warner losses $16 billion and Pajamas Media shuts down ad network. by...

  Tags: Time Warner Inc., Layoff, Tribune Co., Severance Package, Stock, Media, New York Times Co., Gannett Co. Inc., Adjustment, Pajamas Media, Workforce Management, Personal Finance, Investment, Human Resources, Finance, Sean Blanda

• Recruitment Site CareerBuilder Lays Off 300

  Content Next - 2008-12-11

  A bit ironic, but certainly not unexpected? Help-wanteds site CareerBuilder has cut 300 jobs—its own—mostly in its small business unit, Chicago Tribune reported. The company wouldn't tell the Trib its current headcount, though its website does say it has 2,000 employees, suggesting that roughly 15 percent of its workforce...

  Tags: Advertising, CareerBuilder, Classifieds, Companies, David Kaplan, Finance, Gannett Co. Inc., Human Resources, McClatchy Co., Media, Newspapers, Operational Accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Tribune Co., Workforce Management

• Rustic Canyon Sells Part of Its Portfolio To Give Liquidity To Chandler Family, Its LP

  Content Next - 2008-12-09

  A crazy but true story, along with a strange co-incidence: Rustic Canyon RC, one of the largest VC firms in Southern California and invested in a bunch of digital media companies, has sold off a part of its portfolio to Saints Capital, a San Francisco-based VC firm which specializes...

  Tags: Venture-capital Company, Tribune Co., Liquidity, Rustic Canyon, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Investment, Business Operations, VC+M&A, Rafat Ali

• Media Roundup: Tribune Moves to Bankruptcy, Wikipedia Banned, and More

  BNET - 2008-12-09

  The New York Times takes out a mortgage -- Feeling the pinch of the economic downtown combined with the prospect of upcoming payments to its lenders, The New York Times has taken out a mortgage on its Manhattan headquarters.  The move adds $225 million of capital to the books that...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Media, Bankruptcy, Wikipedia, Wiki, Mortgages, Litigation, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Online Communications, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Sean Blanda

• Tribune Co. is Bankrupt; Times to Mortgage its Tower

  BNET - 2008-12-08

  Okay, now the perpetual bad news for print media companies is starting to get a whole lot worse. With the economy reeling, advertisers slashing their media budgets, and consumers cutting purchasing of just about everything but necessities, the path to any sort of viable future seems to be closing for...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Mortgages, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Team Management, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Management, Marketing, David Weir

• Newsday Cuts 100 And Hikes Its Price

  Content Next - 2008-12-05

  Just because NY Newsday's now owned by a cable company instead of a newspaper publisher doesn't mean it can escape the inevitable. The Long Island daily is the latest newspaper to take out the job ax, as Crain's NY Business says the paper is cutting 100 posts, or...

  Tags: Newsday, Tribune Co., Recruitment & Selection, Mergers & Acquisitions, Workforce Management, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Media, Newspapers, David Kaplan, Cablevision Systems Corp.

• Newspaper Roundup: Tribune Cuts 11; Bakersfield Cuts 25; Scripps To Sell Rocky Mountain News

  Content Next - 2008-12-05

  -- Chicago Tribune cuts 11 jobs: As part of those layoffs, The Tribune Company flagship is also letting its two New York correspondents go. Tribune Editor Gerould Kern said this is probably it for layoffs this year—there's just little more than three weeks to go anyway—but offered no assurances...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Business Structures, Human Resources, Finance, Companies, Scripps, E W Scripps, Tribune, Media, Newspapers, Rafat Ali, E.W. Scripps Co., Yahoo! Inc.

• The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune to Run Breakingviews.com Columns in All Editions Globally

  - 2008-09-17

  NEW YORK -- The New York Times Company and breakingviews.com, an online financial commentary publication, announced today that a breakingviews-branded opinion column will appear in all weekday editions of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune beginning Sept. 23. It will also appear online at NYTimes.com/business and IHT.com....

  Tags: Company, FINANCE, financial, New York Times Co., Tribune Co.