Monday, October 09, 2006

Tribune News

Left blogs jump on Hiller
Nikki Finke and John Amato at Crooks and Liars have posted lengthy pieces on the past right-wing connections of new L.A. Times publisher David Hiller.

Tribune Tightens Grip on L.A. Times
The path toward restoring local ownership of the Los Angeles Times has become more difficult in recent days as the newspaper's Chicago-based parent company has hardened its stance against selling its most valuable asset individually.
Tribune Co.'s posture could mean that potential buyers of the newspaper would have to make a bid on the entire company, or perhaps its publishing division, to obtain The Times.

Times' readers put Tribune Co. on notice
I am dismayed to read of the resignation of Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson. Please let the new publisher and Tribune Co. know that readership (and therefore, ad rates) will go down if the quality of the paper decreases.

Should The Tribune Company Create A National Tribune?
Tribune Co. is right that you don't need 1,200 journalists, or even 900, to put out a paper for Los Angeles County. Nor do you need a good website. (And the Times' — through no fault of the people currently running it, who do their talented best with little encouragement from management — is the worst of any major paper.) But why did Tribune pay $8 billion for the Times-Mirror papers in 2000 if its ambitions were so modest?

Former 'L.A. Times' Publisher Uneasy with Hero Label
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rosenthal that was published Sunday, Johnson said he was just acting on instinct when he stood up to Tribune Co. headquarters on the matter of more staff cuts but that he's still very much a business strategist.

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