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Tribune keeping ahead of massive debt load
Chicago Tribune reporterInvestors that made big bets on newspapers in recent years are struggling with their balance sheets as advertising revenues continue to fall. In recent days, Avista Capital Partners, a New York private-equity firm that paid $530 million for the Star...Tags: Major League Baseball, Sam Zell, Ameritrade Holding Corporation, Real Estate Buyers, Property
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BLACK SUPPORT FOR GOP MAY HINGE ON NOMINATION FIGHT
The 2008 presidential campaign is turning out to be a pivotal moment for black Republicans in Hampton Roads. On the one hand, a number of black political leaders previously aligned with the GOP say they will support Democrat Barack Obama should he win...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Barr, Democratic Party, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Bill Thomas
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Read it and weep: the perilous fall of the Press-Telegram
Thirty years ago, Stan Leppard, a rewrite man on the city desk with phlegm in his larynx and a terminal addiction to unfiltered cigarettes, gave me the best professional advice I ever received. He delivered it shortly before I was about to file a not-...Tags: Beach Vacations, Major League Baseball, Defense, Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine
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Illegal gringos
I have long been an avid consumer of that scrappiest, most off-center species of newspaper—the English-language expatriate rag. From the two predecessors of the International Herald-Tribune, to the Gringo Gazette, to the two papers I worked for in Central...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Migration, Demographics, Local Authority, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Chandlers lost chance to increase stock value
Tribune staff reporterIt's hardly a model for other activist shareholders to follow. Dissatisfied with the gradually sinking price of Tribune Co. shares, the Chandler family of California put the company in play, hoping an auction might boost the value of their major stake in...Tags: Stock Market, Sam Zell, Newspapers, Mass Media, McClatchy Co.
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Buyout won't mean end of firm's link to foundation
Tribune staff reporterThis story contains corrected material, published April 7, 2007. The deal to take Tribune Co. private would end the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation's long standing as a major shareholder of the company, but other ties between the Chicago-based...Tags: Sam Zell, Charity, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Tribune Co., Civil Rights
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Sharon has stroke
MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENTIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke last night and underwent surgery that stretched into the morning. His latest health crisis makes it unlikely that Sharon - a dominant figure in Israeli politics for decades - would continue to...Tags: Defense, Armed Forces, Yitzhak Rabin, Refugee, Peace Negotiations
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She courted history
In her best-selling memoir about growing up on a dusty cattle ranch in Arizona, Sandra Day O'Connor said that her childhood had endowed her with three pivotal values: openness, independence and generosity. If you had to sum up O'Connor's 24-year tenure...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Livestock Farming, Gun Control
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Quite a spread
It was once envisioned to be a major attraction with an amusement park, hotels and conference center. Disney even considered it for development. But what happened instead was the formation of a public-private partnership that created a park for the...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), History, Hotels and Accommodations
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Cars.com Named Best Automotive Web Site In The Ninth Annual Webby Awards People's Voice Awards
CHICAGO -- May 3, 2005 -- The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for Web sites, announced that cars.com won The People's Voice Award for Best Automotive Web Site. The award is a tremendous honor indicating the highest level of loyalty and...Tags: New York Stock Exchange, Advertising, Consumers, Public Relations, Kelley Blue Book LLC
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Todd Brownrout Named Los Angeles Times Senior Vice President, Advertising
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26, 2004 – Todd B. Brownrout has been named senior vice president of advertising at the Los Angeles Times, responsible for all retail, national and classified advertising including Recycler Classifieds. In addition, he will be...Tags: Advertising, San Fernando, Newspapers, Gary, Newspaper and Magazine
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TV's coolest parents
Don't feel too sorry for TV's Joan Girardi, Angela Chase or Brandon Walsh. Their folks may be bland, overbearing and insufferable, and sure, these kids are stuck with them like a zit on prom night. But it's the viewing public that must really suffer. The...Tags: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Tony Soprano, Howard Hughes, Beverly Hills, Saddam Hussein
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