Brian Tierney was a bulldog Philadelphia PR man much hated by Philadelphia journalists before he led a group that bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News in 2006. Let's review how that's worked out: In the summer of '06, Tierney and some wealthy Philly-area investors purchased the papers fro...

Filed under: SEC filings, Products and services, Management, Newspapers This post is part of our feature on Money Losers of 2008 . See all 20. When Sam Zell acquired the Tribune Co. in April 2007 for $8.2 billion in cash, pundits speculated about whether the "grave dancer" who had made billions in d...

Let us not, at this crucial moment, forget how much shit the Tribune Co. is in. Executives at the Tribune Co. are quite literally wading to work today through rivers of bad news—deep, deep rivers. Yesterday they freaking went bankrupt. Today they find themselves smack dab in the middle of Gov....

I've been skimming the 78 page indictment of Blagojevich. Here is one of my favorite parts, but first some background.Blago is talking by phone late last month with "Deputy Governor A." He's furious about the ChicagoTribune's endorsement of Blago's political nemesis, State Senator Mike Madigan, and ...

They might as well do it. That being, in the weeks, to months, ahead, we may see a row of newspaper publishers sitting in front of a Congressional committee, hat-in-hand, asking for a bailout. Presumably, they will have read their own papers in making their travel arrangements to the Capital, eschew...

The Tribune Company, owner of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune, has filed for bankruptcy. Bummer. Pretty much everyone saw this coming. The company is $12 billion in debt, its revenues are going steadily downward, it's been having round after round of layoffs, and it's run by an angry (but honest!) ...

If you wanted to wipe out the American media establishment in one blow, you might have targeted the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the Plaza hotel at around 9 a.m. on Nov. 12. The Foursquare Conference was organized by media mogul Steve Rattner’s Quadrangle Partners, and had the kind of excl...

Newspaper people like to think of themselves as good storytellers. But, lately, newspaper execs find themselves with fewer good storylines to share. In fact, Gannett -- the world's largest newspaper company -- is going to tell its official stories less often. Of course, we'll see interim announcemen...

On Fox News last week, Sean Hannity said he was tempted to ask Barack Obama: "Where did you buy your cocaine, how much cocaine? How much cocaine did you use? How often did you use it? When did you stop?"...

150 reporters, editors and designers at The Los Angeles Times are packing their boxes and heading home for good this week, but out of the paper's press department that's not the big news at all! Last night, John Conroy, one of their spokesmen, sent reporters an email about a new blog the newspaper's...