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• Nonprofit Texas Tribune Launches With Budget Covered For Two Years

  PaidContent - 2009-11-03

  Monday evening as the Texas Tribune raced toward its launch this morning (some elements aren’t live yet), Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith took me through the new nonprofit journalism site—news stories, databases, blogs, a combined Twitter feed for every elected politician in Texas, the start of a Texas politics wiki. Unlike...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Texas, Evan Smith, Corporate Communications, Personal Finance, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Marketing, Human Resources, Media & Publishing, Online News, Staci D. Kramer

• Media Roundup: Star Tribune agrees to cuts, Twitter continues breakneck growth and More

  BNET - 2009-04-24

  In Today's Media Roundup: Star Tribune agrees to cuts, Twitter continues breakneck growth, The New York Times is looking at paid content, Tribune announces cuts and NPR cuts 13. by Sean Blanda

  Tags: Tribune Co., Media, Cut, Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sean Blanda

• Media Roundup: CNN to Debut Instream Commercials at Inauguration, Star Tribune Declares Bankruptcy, and More

  BNET - 2009-01-16

  In Today's Media Roundup: CNN to debut instream commercials at inauguration, 95 percent of all music downloads are stolen, Globe announces cuts, Gannett may drop AP, Chinese media companies looking to move oversees, CS Monitor to trim staff and Eidos in buyout talks by Sean Blanda

  Tags: Media Company, Layoff, Tribune Co., Associated Press, Media, Gannett Co. Inc., Bankruptcy, CNN, Globe, Litigation, Workforce Management, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Human Resources, Marketing, Sean Blanda

• Media Roundup: Tribune to Go Tabloid for Street Sales, Current Console Generation Will Last Longer, and More

  BNET - 2009-01-13

  In Today's Media Roundup: Tribune to go tabloid for street sales, Microsoft: Current Gen will last longer, Hearst Corporation keeps CEO, Printed Blog turns the tables, YouTube launches C-SPAN style Congressional hub and CBS gives Verizon Video On Demand rights by Sean Blanda

  Tags: Tribune Co., Console, Media, Hearst Corp., Video, Chicago, Corporate Communications, Sales Strategy, Video On Demand (VoD), Marketing, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Blanda

• Tribune's Ch. 11: Its Debt to Media Companies

  Content Next - 2008-12-08

  From Tribune's Chapter 11 filing, some of the media-related creditors Tribune owns money to, besides the big banks:-- Total Debt: $12,972,541,148.00 (aka, $13 billion)-- Warner Bros. Television Time Warner: $23.69 million-- Twentieth Television News Corp: $8.05 million-- Buena Vista Entertainment Disney: $6.22 million-- NBCU Domestic TV NBCU: $4.94...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Litigation, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Business Operations, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Companies, Tribune, Media, Newspapers, Rafat Ali

• TRIBUNE FILES FOR CH. 11 BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION; Cubs Not Included In Filing

  Content Next - 2008-12-08

  Tribune has filed for Chapter 11 protection this morning, in bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware. This comes after the news yesterday that the debt-laden newspaper company and owner of LA Times and Chicago Tribune had hired investment bank Lazard and the law firm Sidley Austin to try and help...

  Tags: Bankruptcy Protection, Tribune Co., Bankruptcy, Litigation, Public Relations, Entrepreneurship, Business Operations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Companies, Tribune, Media, Newspapers, Rafat Ali

• 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

• International Herald Tribune to Celebrate Suzy Menkes's Anniversary with a Museum Retrospective in Paris

  - 2008-09-26

  PARIS -- The International Herald Tribune IHT will hold an exhibition to celebrate a milestone in the career of its world renowned fashion editor, Suzy Menkes. The exhibition entitled "Suzy at 20" will be held at the Galliera, Musee de la Mode de la Ville de Paris from September 28...

  Tags: CAREER, Company, exhibition, MARKETING, New York Times Co., Paris, Tribune 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

• NY Times, other US news titans forge online advertising venture

  - 2008-02-15

  WASHINGTON AFP — Four of the biggest US news organizations, including the New York Times Company and Tribune Co., have teamed up to forge a new online advertising venture, the groups announced Friday. The new venture called quadrantONE is backed by the Times; Tribune Co., which publishes the Los...

  Tags: advertiser, Agence France-Presse, MARKETING, New York Times Co., Tribune Co.