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...Zell later tried his hand at media, outbidding two other billionaires in 2007 for the Tribune Company in his native Chicago, publisher of newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and owner of broadcast television...
...My usual partners were George Alagiah, the BBC presenter and then chief Africa correspondent, Sam Kiley, then at The Times and now with CNN, and Hugh Dellios of the Chicago Tribune....
...Chicago’s critics quickly took note: Richard Christiansen of the Chicago Tribune heralded “an extraordinary group of young players”....
...Ostensibly inspired by the 1922 competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower (which attracted entries from the great names of the era, including Walter Gropius and Adolf Loos), the curators have selected a...
...David Geffen made a $2bn cash offer in 2007 that was rejected by Tribune Company, the paper’s then owner, in favour of a rival, highly-leveraged bid led by Sam Zell, the Chicago property tycoon....
...His 2011 investigation of Sam Zell’s ownership of Tribune Company, which detailed the corporate mismanagement of newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, won a number of prizes....
...Smaller titles serving smaller markets mean individual newspaper crises may not have the scale or the drama of those in the US where, for example, the Tribune Company, publisher of the Chicago Tribune filed...
...Newspapers now tarnish more reputations than they buff: ask Sam Zell or Brian Tierney about the Chicago Tribune or The Philadelphia Inquirer and their path from buyout to bankruptcy....
...After digesting the Los Angeles Times, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune was itself swallowed in a calamitous piece of financial engineering by property developer Sam Zell that ended in bankruptcy...
...The source of his irritation is the FT’s insistent questions about Tribune, the media company that owns the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, which Mr Zell’s Equity Group Investments bought in 2007...
...A group of Chicago investors who recently bought another local newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times, had been reported to be interested in the Tribune....
...The Tribune Company has been in bankruptcy since December 2008, shortly after it was taken private in an $8.2bn leveraged buy-out by Chicago real estate mogul Sam Zell....
...Tribune filed for bankruptcy in December 2008, less than a year after it was taken private in an $8.2bn leveraged buy-out by Sam Zell, a Chicago property magnate....
...Tribune has settled a dispute with some of its leading creditors, allowing the publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune to clear a hurdle in the path of its exit from bankrupcty....
...They hold bonds that were issued before Sam Zell, the property mogul, paid more than $8bn for Tribune, which owns the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times titles....
...Tribune filed for bankruptcy in December, less than one year after it was taken private in an $8.2bn buy-out by real estate mogul Sam Zell....
...of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune....
...to the leveraged buy-out by Sam Zell, a real estate tycoon....
...But a blistering decline in newspaper advertising at Tribune, publishers of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, forced the company to file for bankruptcy in December....
...of the Chicago Tribune’s publisher....
...Sam Zell, Tribune owner, who had hoped to retain a nearly 50 per cent stake in the team to minimise tax liabilities, is now seeking a much smaller single-digit percentage stake....
...Sam Zell, a Chicago billionaire who sold his commercial property group to Blackstone for a record $38.9bn in February 2007, bought Tribune for $8.2bn last year, only completing the deal last December....
...The Chapter 11 filing threatens key US metropolitan newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and LA Times, and more than 20 TV stations but excludes Zell’s Chicago Cubs baseball team and its Wrigley Field...
...Sam Zell, a Chicago billionaire who sold his commercial property group to Blackstone for a record $38.9bn in February 2007, bought Tribune for $8.2bn last year, only completing the deal in December, several...
...But those crowing over Sam Zell’s mis-step in acquiring Tribune are stuck in an Esop fable....
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