Media Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Tribune Company’s owner Sam Zell’s ideas are so old and decaying that they are beginning to smell rancid. He’s playing a hindsight blame game similar to another old, rich dinosaur, Rupert Murdoch, and to bloviating, self-promoting Internet guru Jeff Jarvis. Recently Zell spoke with Condé Nast Portfolio editor in chief Joanne Lipman at Quadrangle Group's Foursquare media conference ....
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
When he purchased the Tribune Company last year it was clear he loathed the business. The feeling is mutual. By now, it is clear that Sam Zell loathes the newspapers he acquired when he took control of the Tribune Company. In every interview, he is...
Around Robin (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Daily Beast gets stuck into Sam Zell, the man who took over at the Tribune company. “Local, local, local” is what readers want, he said at a media mogul conference last month. On the Chicago Tribune website, that means, under the banner of news: “Woman says ex-husband stole half of their bed.” Elsewhere on the homepage is a key to a calorie counter for turkey and a report on the...
DealBook (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
At least three groups submitted offers on Monday to the Tribune Company in the latest round of bidding for the Chicago Cubs baseball team, Reuters reported, citing two sources familiar with the process. Groups led by Tom Ricketts, chief executive of Chicago investment bank Incapital and the son of the founder of TD Ameritrade Holding; Marc [...]
ChicagoCubsOnline.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
According to reports from Reuters.com and Cubs.com , " at least three groups submitted offers on Monday to the Tribune Company in the latest round of bidding for the Chicago Cubs. " Reuters identified the following three groups : The Ricketts Group , led by Tom Ricketts executive of Chicago Investment bank Incapital LLC and son of the founder of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. Marc Utay...
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Veteran media executive Charles Warner, the former head of interactive marketing at AOL and an emeritus chair at the University of Missouri School of Journalism,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Tribune Company's owner Sam Zell's ideas are so old and decaying that they are beginning to smell rancid. He's playing a hindsight blame game similar...
