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  • Newspaper advertising woes expected to persist throughout the year

    07/02/2006 2:35:30 PM PDT · by george76 · 15 replies · 460+ views
    Sun Sentinel ^ | June 21 2006 | Aimee Picchi
    Tribune Co., Belo Corp. and Journal Register Co. said advertising sales continue to slump, signaling the newspaper industry's woes may extend this year. Advertising sales in June "are soft and we expect first-half advertising to be flat," Donald Grenesko, chief financial officer of Chicago-based Tribune, the second biggest U.S. newspaper publisher in revenue and owner of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, said Tuesday at the Newspaper Association of America's Mid-Year Media Review in New York... A protracted slowdown may mean increased investor pressure on publishers including Tribune, which is fending off calls from its second largest shareholder to break apart the...
  • Tribune chief not retreating (Dinosaur Media Extinction Alert)

    06/11/2006 12:37:39 PM PDT · by abb · 14 replies · 461+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | June 11, 2006 | Susan Chandler and Michael Oneal
    When Tribune Co. Chief Executive Dennis FitzSimons made the decision in late May to move ahead with a restructuring plan vehemently opposed by his second-largest shareholder, he took up a fight that may end up defining his career. The private battle went public last week when California's wealthy Chandler family made it known that Tribune had acted against its wishes. But FitzSimons is in no mood to back down. Sources close to the situation say, if anything, his position has hardened. "We are not going to be intimidated," said one source, expressing Tribune's view. "I don't think they know well...