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Set-top box co. Sezmi cuts staff despite new $30M
VentureBeat — ... in preparation for tighter times ahead. Sezmi’s service comes with a set-top box that brings both high-definition broadcast and internet programming to your living room television. To do so, it licenses unused segments of the broadcast spectrum. It also offers broadcasters the opportunity to mix targeted advertising in with different combinations of content. The company recently partnered with Fisher Communications, Tribune Broadcasting and Daystar Television Network to run a trial of the product in ...

Tribune Co. files for Chapter 11
901am — ... Chicago-based Tribune Co., owner of Los Angeles Times, KTLA Channel 5, and Chicago Tribune, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks relief from $12 billion in debt. The company has $300 million cash, enough to cover the $70 million due today, but its lenders are said to be not keen on undertaking broader restructuring of debt. ...

Tribune creates online entertainment news bureau
901am — ... Tribune Company is creating an online entertainment news bureau that will provide original, multimedia content to the company’s newspaper and television websites. The bureau will be powered by the combined resources of the ...

Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic Lead Amicus Effort Promoting Rights of Anonymous Online Speakers in Illinois
Berkman Center Newsfeed — ... , and Tribune Company , in asking an Illinois appellate court to protect the rights of anonymous speakers online by imposing procedural safeguards before requiring that their identities be disclosed. The amicus coalition, represented by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic with the assistance of local counsel Michael T. Reagan of Herbolsheimer Lannon Henson Duncan and Reagan PC, submitted a “friend of the court” brief this week in the case of Maxon v. Ottawa Publishing . The case is before the Illinois Appellate Court for the Third District. Plaintiffs argue that certain ...

April Fools' Day is dead: If everyone's fooling, nobody's a fool
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Even Tribune Co., the Chapter 11-protected owner of the Los Angeles Times, decided to whistle through its own ever-expanding graveyard by issuing a press release about the new ...

Can SEO Help Save the Publishing Industry?
WebProNews Feed — ... Tribune SEO Director Brent Payne talked about Twitter for media companies. He said there are 4 account types that publishers should set up. They are: ...