Posts Tagged ‘The Tribune Co.’

ETN’s Cheeseman speaks: We’re alive

In the past year, the Times Publishing Company, along with most other U.S. newspaper publishers, has had to ensure a severe advertising slow down, the near-evaporation of their classified advertising cash cow to the online space, leading up to employee buyouts at the end of 2008. Nearly every day, the public has heard the drumbeat of negative news about the newspaper business: Tribune Co. goes bankrupt, the Rocky Mountain News folds, the Detroit newspapers go to limited home delivery.

However, throughout this era, the publisher of our local papers, Rosanne Cheeseman, has been conspicuously quiet. Until now.
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Radio guru Abrams behind Chicago Tribune redesign

Monday morning, when hundreds of thousands of bleary-eyed Chicagoland residents retrieved their newspaper from their front stoop, they were awakened to a bright and bold new Chicago Tribune.

The Tribune, the flagship of The Tribune Co. which also includes the LA Times, Baltimore Sun, WGN-TV & AM, and the Chicago Cubs baseball team (here’s hoping for the Series!), has been in a downward spiral in both advertising revenue and readership, with 100 editorial layoffs in recent months. The publisher hopes that the redesign positions the paper better in this new world of visual media. (more…)