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Tribune Files for Bankruptcy - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/9/2008
Tribune Files for Bankruptcy - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times
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Updated: The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the owner of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs baseball team struggled to cope with mountains of debt and falling ad revenue. Tribune, which was acquired last ...
chicagotribune.com - 12/9/2008
TRIBUNE BANKRUPTCY: The Tribune Company has filed for bankruptcy -
— chicagotribune.com — Facing what Chairman Sam Zell called a "perfect storm" of forces roiling the media industry and the broader economy, Chicago-based Tribune Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors Monday. The move opens the most painful ... (more) TRIBUNE BANKRUPTCY: The Tribune Company has filed for ...

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dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/3/2008
Hawaiian Telcom Files for Bankruptcy - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- ...
— dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com — Hawaiian Telcom Communications , the largest telephone company in Hawaii, said Monday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company, backed by a buyout shop, the Carlyle Group , had been working with creditors since October on a ... (more) Hawaiian Telcom Files for Bankruptcy - Mergers, ...

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money.aol.com - 12/9/2008
Tribune Co. Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
— money.aol.com — Tribune Co. Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy posted: ONE MINUTE AGO comments: 0 filed under: Financial Crisis Reed Saxon, AP, Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images and Scott Olson, Getty Images Roughly a year after ... (more) Tribune Co. Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Another One Bites The Dust: Tribune Files for Bankruptcy
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... The Tribune Company filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware on Monday. This media powerhouse owns 23 TV stations, 12 newspapers that include ...

Roundup: Yahoo Mail becomes developer platform, capital calls go unpaid, thieves win hacking war
VentureBeat — ... Tribune files for bankruptcy: The owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Cubs files for Chapter 11 to stave off debtors. ...

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Newspaper Roundup: Tribune Cuts 11; Bakersfield Cuts 25; Scripps To Sell Rocky Mountain News
paidcontent.org 12/5/2008 — -- Chicago Tribune cuts 11 jobs : As part of those layoffs, The Tribune Company flagship is also letting its two New York correspondents go. Tribune Editor Gerould Kern said this is probably it for layoffs this year—there's just little more than three weeks to go anyway—but offered no ...
Poor Chicago — BuzzMachine
Maybe it’s me: I’m the jinx. Every paper I ever worked for has now folded or faced mortal danger: the Addison (Ill.) Herald-Register (folded), the Detroit Free Press (came close and might as well fold), Chicago Today (which had no tomorrow), the San Francisco Examiner (no longer a ...
Will More Bankruptcies Follow Tribune's? — AOL News
Will More Bankruptcies Follow Tribune's? posted: 4 MINUTES AGO comments: 0 filed under: Financial Crisis Tribune Co., the publisher of the Chicago Tribune as well as the owner of the Cubs baseball team and their historic stadium, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...
The Chicago Tribune's Technology Is All Wet — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
I'd hoped to read about the Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy filing in today's newspaper, but it got delivered in the rain, so I threw the soaking wet mess into the garbage.
Illinois governor's corruption charges touch Obama, Tribune — BloggingStocks
Police today arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff on federal corruption charges that both touch the Tribune bankruptcy and the incoming administration of his fellow Illinois Democrat Barack Obama. According to the Chicago Tribune , the governor and his Chief of Staff ...
Tribune Bankruptcy: Beginning of a Wave? — Screenwerk
The Tribune Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times and 23 TV stations, among other assets, filed Chapter 11 today: While the company has sufficient cash to continue operations, to supplement its cash availability in the event of even more significant declines in its operating ...
The Tribune Company, which owns the Chicago ... [Recession Watch] — Consumerist
The Tribune Company, which owns the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs, has filed for bankruptcy. [New York Times]
Print Media Deathwatch: Tribune Files For Bankruptcy — Podcasting News
Chicago-based Tribune Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. The publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and Los Angeles Times cited a $13 billion debt load and a “perfect storm” of declining advertising revenue in a worsening economy, which led to ...
Off Topic: Trouble Rocks Major Newspapers [GigaOM] — GigaOM Network
These are dark days for the media business, with many traditional media owners caught in the intergalactic shift to online from off. This is going to kill a lot of newspapers. Among the latest developments, Tribune Co ., parent company of the Chicago Tribune, LA Times and others (and owner of ...
Tribune Files for Bankruptcy Protection — Advertising Age - Homepage
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- The beleaguered newspaper sector sunk to new depths today as Tribune Co., publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, filed for bankruptcy protection.
TRIBUNE FILES FOR CH. 11 BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION; Cubs Not Included In Filing — paidContent
Tribune has filed for Chapter 11 protection this morning, in bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware. This comes after the news yesterday that the debt-laden newspaper company and owner of LA Times and Chicago Tribune had hired investment bank Lazard and the law firm Sidley Austin to try and ...
Tribune Co. Files for Bankruptcy Protection — Epicenter
The Tribune Company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the Chicago-based media company announced Monday. It will continue to operate its media businesses during the restructuring, including publishing its newspapers and running its television stations and interactive properties ...
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 ...
Tribune Bankruptcy: Chicago say looking at all of our options — PR News:
Today the news broke that Tribune Co. are working with bankruptcy advisers thanks to struggling with debt and also has a Monday deadline on $70 million of unsecured debt. Tribune Co. is Chicago Tribune’s parent company and they have reported that they are not immune to the declines seen ...
Will The Tribune Company go bankrupt? — BloggingStocks
A lot of America's newspaper companies have been in trouble. Advertising has been down as much as 15% this year and that has gotten worse in the last few months. Almost all of the chains have had to cut staff and some properties have been put on the block to help the companies pay down debt. ...
Will The Tribune Company go bankrupt? — BloggingStocks
A lot of America's newspaper companies have been in trouble. Advertising has been down as much as 15% this year and that has gotten worse in the last few months. Almost all of the chains have had to cut staff and some properties have been put on the block to help the companies pay down debt. ...
Finish him: Midway facing 50-day countdown to bankruptcy — Joystiq
Things are looking grim for the company that once gave us Gorf , Arch Rivals and Spyhunter . The Chicago Tribune reports that Midway may default on its staggering $240 million debt, and that according to an SEC filing the one-time arcade dynamo has just 50 days to get $150 million of this ...