Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has described reports that it is in discussions with Tribune Co or the Los Angeles Times to acquire them as being 'wholly inaccurate'.The Los Angeles Times newspaper had reported on Friday that Murdoch is looking to buy the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, two of America's largest newspapers, once the newspapers' owner, Tribune Co., emerges from bankrup...
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has described reports that it is in discussions with Tribune Co or the Los Angeles Times to acquire them as being 'wholly inaccurate'.The Los Angeles Times newspaper had reported on Friday that Murdoch is looking to buy the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, two of America's largest newspapers, once the newspapers' owner, Tribune Co., emerges from bankrup...
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Tribune Co., one of the largest newspaper companies in the country, is working on a tablet to offer its subscribers, according to a. Tribune owns the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel, a few other daily newspapers and 23 television stations.According to the report, the tablet will run a modified version of Android and be offered for free or at a low cost...
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David Copley and his family were longtime owners of the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper.San Diego Union-Tribune publisher David Copley, right, and editor Karin Winner celebrate the newspaper’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.SAN DIEGO — David Copley, owner and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune until it was sold in 2009, died Tuesday after crashing his Aston Martin near his home...
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Buffett, who is Berkshire's CEO, acquiring the Waco Tribune-Herald fits his stated interest in buying small and medium-sized newspapers in places with a strong sense of community.LLC, a Waco family business that bought it in 2009 from Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises. The newspaper has 124 employees.The Tribune-Herald, with its daily circulation of 34,000 and 39,000 on Sundays, is one of many newspapers...
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Tribune Co., one of the largest newspaper publishers in the U.S., is working on a tablet computer of its own to offer its subscribers, CNN reported, citing interviews with more than half a dozen current and former Tribune employees.and be offered for free or at a low cost as an incentive to sign up for extended newspaper subscriptions. Customers' hometown newspaper content and apps would feature p...
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Tribune Co. says it has hired investment banks JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Evercore Partners to help it sell its newspapers, which include thesaid the company has received "a lot of interest" in its newspapers. Hiring the firms, he said, will help Tribune Co. determine whether a potential buyer's interest is credible and assist the company in considering its options.The sale of the newspapers has been...
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move to make it easier forcompanies to own U.S. daily newspapers and nearby broadcaststations has stalled amid partisan tension that could preventdeals between companies such as Tribune Co. and News Corp., a Democrat, hasn’t won approval of his proposal toease a ban on cross-media ownership almost three months afterasking fellow commissioners to vote for it.has a chance to buy Tribune Co.newspapers...
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Tribune Company is planning to use self-made tablets to combat the worst effects of the seemingly inevitable death of the traditional newspaper -- an ambitious plan with its share of detractors.In a story first reported by CNN's Mark Milian, it was announced that the Tribune Company is currently working on a tablet device that will ultimately provide digital versions of its newspapers, which include...
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Peter Liguori, a longtime television executive, was named the new chief executive of the Tribune Company on Thursday, two and a half weeks after the newspaper and television station owner emerged from a wrenching four-year bankruptcy process.Analysts expect Tribune to sell some of its newspaper assets and rely more heavily on its television stations and Web sites as it restructures itself in the months...
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