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• Tribune Looks To 'Universal Registration' For Ad Targeting Across Its Websites

  PaidContent - 2009-10-26

  Tribune Company is working on having users across its several newspaper websites sign in with a “universal registration” that is designed to make it easier for advertisers to target users. Don Meek, president of Tribune365, the company’s national sales unit, mentioned the plan to AdAge as an example of...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Advertisement, Web Site, Registration System, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Sales, Internet, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Tribune, David Kaplan

• 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

• Newspaper Ad Revenues Gaining Downhill Momentum; Online Struggling Too

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-09-05

  Erick Schonfeld submits: Can it get any worse for the newspaper industry? The steep decline in print advertising just keeps getting steeper and, for the first time, even online ad sales have gone down. by Erick Schonfeld

  Tags: Belo Corp., E.W. Scripps Co., Gannett Co. Inc., Internet, Lee Enterprises Inc., McClatchy Co., Media, Media General Inc., New York Times Co., News Corp., Tribune Co., Washington Post Co.

• Gannett acquires a majority stake in CareerBuilder from Tribune Company

  - 2008-09-03

  MCLEAN, Va. & CHICAGO -- Gannett and Tribune Company announced today that Gannett has acquired an additional 10 percent stake in CareerBuilder from Tribune for $135 million. The acquisition gives Gannett a 50.8 percent controlling interest in CareerBuilder, the U.S.'s largest online job site. "CareerBuilder is a terrific company,...

  Tags: CareerBuilder, FINANCE, Gannett Co. Inc., INTERNET, Investment, MARKETING, Tribune Co., TVs

• Baseball Notes | Giambi meets with Mitchell

  - 2007-07-14

  Baseball Notable Jason Giambi  met with  George Mitchell  yesterday, becoming the first active player known to talk with baseball's steroids investigator. Mitchell and his staff finished interviewing the New York Yankees slugger, and no further meetings were scheduled, the Associated Press said. Giambi has admitted he had a "personal history...

  Tags: Associated Press, Chicago, FINANCE, INTERNET, Tribune Co.

• Can asset sales, Web investments save Tribune from debt?(Samuel Zell tp acquire Tribune Co. (Chicago, Illinois))

  - 2007-04-09

  Byline: GREGORY MEYER Tribune Co.'s incoming chairman told some of his new business partners last week that he views his deal for the company as a "10-year investment, at a minimum.'' Those words may have been a comfort to the Chicago Tribu...

  Tags: asset, company, Internet, Sam Zell, Tribune Co., Web

• BNET Dispatch: March 8, 2007

  - 2007-03-08

  Online ad spending in the US grew by 34 percent in 2006 compared with 2005, according to a new study. More marketers are wooing customers on the internet because more users are switching to broadband connections and are online longer. The internet makes up only about five percent of total...

  Tags: Internet, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Walgreen Co., Tribune Co., Real Estate, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Joseph De Avila

• Breaking the news: it's not the Internet that's killing newspapers. It's the equity-chasing investors and their friends at the FCC who have put outsize profits before a free press

  - 2007-03-01

  Senate reconfirmation hearings tend to be predictable affairs, marked by polite give-and-take and senatorial grandstanding, but generally free of surprise plot twists. And so it was supposed to go last September 12, when Federal Communications Commission FCC chairman Kevin Martin appeared before the Commerce Committee. In March 2005, following the...

  Tags: blog, Chicago, equity, FCC, Government, Internet, investor, Los Angeles Times, MSM, Tribune Co., TVs

• Tribune Names New Publisher at Los Angeles Times David Hiller succeeds Jeff Johnson Scott Smith adds Chicago Tribune publisher responsibilities.

  - 2006-10-06

  M2 PRESSWIRE-6 October 2006-Tribune Company: Tribune Names New Publisher at Los Angeles Times David Hiller succeeds Jeff Johnson Scott Smith adds Chicago Tribune publisher responsibilitiesC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05102006 CHICAGO - Tribune Publishing, a division of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB),...

  Tags: Chicago, INTERNET, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Co., TVs

• Los Angeles Times publisher replaced over staff cuts row

  - 2006-10-05

  LOS ANGELES AFP — The Los Angeles Times parted company with publisher Jeff Johnson following his reported refusal to implement staff cuts proposed by the newspaper's owners Tribune Publishing. A statement released by Tribune named David Hiller as the new president, publisher and chief executive of the Times, indicating Johnson...

  Tags: CAREER, INTERNET, Johnson, Leadership, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Co.