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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

• 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

• 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.

• United Stock Tanks on False Bankruptcy Rumors

  BNET - 2008-09-09

  Holy cow. If you ever wondered about the volatility of the stock market, I think we've got a pretty interesting case study after United's stock dropped like a rock yesterday morning on bankruptcy rumors that turned out to be false. Take a look at this chart and see...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Stock, Bankruptcy, Litigation, Investment, Business Operations, Finance, Brett Snyder

• 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

• Murdoch withdraws bid for Newsday

  - 2008-05-11

  MELVILLE, N.Y. MCT -- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has dropped his $580 million bid to purchase Newsday, his spokeswoman said Saturday. Murdoch's withdrawal leaves two other bids for Tribune Co. to consider: Cablevision Systems Corp.'s $650 million offer or a $580 million bid from New York Daily...

  Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., FINANCE, Investment, News Corp., Newsday, SOFTWARE, Tribune Co.

• NFL rusher Benson to fight drunk boating claims

  - 2008-05-05

  CHICAGO AFP — Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson said Monday he will fight charges of drunken boating and resisting arrest, denying any wrongdoing in comments to the Chicago Tribune. Benson was arrested Saturday night near Austin, Texas, in an incident where he was restrained with pepper spray by...

  Tags: Chicago, FINANCE, Investment, NFL, officer, Tribune Co.

• Latest Round of Losses at N.Y. Times and Gannett

  BNET - 2008-04-21

  Newspaper execs from The Big Chill generation might as well be singing "Monday, Monday"* along with The Mamas and the Papas, on their way in to start the workweek these days. Today's pro-forma dose of bad news starts with Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper chain,...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Rupert Murdoch, Gannett Co. Inc., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, David Weir