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• Media Roundup: Primedia Founder Dies, the Los Angeles Times Redesigns, and More

  BNET - 2008-10-21

  Publishing exec Bill Reilly dies at 70 -- The founder and former chairman of Primedia died of cancer on Friday. [Source: The New York Times] The Los Angeles Times gets a redesign -- The changes are not dramatic, but new bylines put emphasis on reporters' whereabouts --...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, Primedia Inc., Media, API, New York Times Co., Financial Accounting, Finance, Karen Steen

• Tribune Co. completes deal to go private

  - 2007-12-20

  CHICAGO AFP — Private equity investors Thursday completed their 13-billion-dollar acquisition of Tribune Co., a media group that owns The Los Angeles Times among other assets, the company said. Real estate tycoon Sam Zell, who financed the transaction, assumed the roles of chairman of the board and chief executive...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, board, Chicago, FINANCE, Investment, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, media, Tribune Co., tycoon

• Calling all psychics: It's contest time again

  - 2007-01-02

  Consider how strange this year will be in media. Homer Simpson will go belly-to-belly with Shrek. YouTube's audience will continue to soar higher than a Diet Coke and Mentos fountain. AT&T will launch into the satellite business. And DreamWorks co-founder David Geffen will run the presses at the Los Angeles...

  Tags: DreamWorks SKG, DVR, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, media, NETWORKING, satellite, TVs, USA Today, YouTube Inc.

• Dodgers GM taking heat from media in stride.(Sports)

  - 2004-08-13

  Byline: Bruce Miles Daily Herald Sports Writer Nobody can accuse Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Paul DePodesta of not having a sense of humor. DePodesta took over last winter but waited until the July 31 trading deadline to pull off his first...

  Tags: blockbuster, CAREER, General Motors Corp., Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, media, winter

• Today's Events in Southern California

  - 2002-10-07

  City Desks & Assignment Editors --BUSINESS WIRE Following is a listing of media and community events for Monday, Oct. 7: --------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT: Los Angeles Times, Tribune Broadcasting present gubernatorial debate between Gov. Gray Davis and...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, media

• ADVISORY/Los Angeles Gubernatorial Debate Oct. 7; Media Registration Deadline Oct. 4; Updated Broadcast Feed Information

  - 2002-10-02

  News & Business Editors ADVISORY...for Monday (Oct. 7) --BUSINESS WIRE WHAT: Gubernatorial debate between Gov. Gray Davis and Republican candidate Bill Simon Jr. Sponsored by Los Angeles Times and Tribune Broadcasting. WHEN: Monday, Oct. 7...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, MEDIA, NETWORKING, Tribune Co., TVs

• Memo to the media: Welcome to the secession circus

  - 2002-05-27

  RUMOR has it that Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw is preparing a lengthy piece on the media coverage of the drive to break up Los Angeles over the last year. I suppose it was a good thing he decided to attend the May 22 hearing of the...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, media, radio, Valley

• George W. Bush, Jr. Exposed! A Million Laughs!

  - 2000-08-16

  Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--Aug. 16, 2000 Now playing, the critically acclaimed Rough Theater's "MEDIA WHORES", a new political satire written and directed by Eric Diamond. "MEDIA WHORES" tells the tale of Junior, the not-too-bright son of a former President who through dint of campaign cash, connections and...

  Tags: Diamond, Los Angeles Times, Media, oxygen

• More Form than Substance: Press Coverage of the WTO Protests in Seattle

  - 2000-05-01

  The mainstream U.S. news media have been shifting rightward for at least two decades, as their corporate owners enforce tighter ideological conformity. Oliver North and Pat Buchanan, for example, are now regular commentators on television talk shows. And all of the media now refer to people as "consumers," cogs in...

  Tags: delegate, Estonia, FINANCE, Los Angeles Times, media, New York Times Co., Seattle, U.S., World Trade Organization

• Stories the media miss - underreporting of important stories by 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal,' 'Los Angeles Times,' and 'Washington Post'

  - 1995-03-01

  The Big Four newspapers neglect important news that affect you directlyMany say they couldn't take another of the endless, lurid dispatches from Tonya Harding's skating rink, or the daily rehashes of John Bobbitt's involuntary loss of a body part. Others say they hate newspapers because they're too negative, tearing down...

  Tags: Bush, GATT, General Accounting Office, Government, Internal Revenue Service, Los Angeles Times, media, New York Times Co., Wall Street Journal, Washington Post Co.