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Entries tagged "Tribune"

Tribune

Tribune's buyout-to-bankruptcy tale has been featured in some Deal magazine retrospects. Here's the latest.

The future and other problems

The good news: Private equity is sitting on billions in investor capital. The bad news: It faces masses of maturing debt, some dicey investments and great uncertainty.

A look back

In which we reappraise Deals of the Year from a very different time. How bad was the ABN-Amro deal?

The fallen

In which we recall some of the year's biggest private equity busts.

One media maven on the upside of downside

Meredith Corp. wants Shape magazine. If only it were that simple to extract it from ailing parent AMI.

Change in a cold climate

The Democrats came to power with ambitious plans for the FCC. But how much of that agenda will fly in a deep recession?

Black and white and red all over

The newspaper industry was struggling before the economic slump. Now papers desperately try a variety of strategies, some to survive, others to prepare for a future that's still unknowable.

S curve

How Zell's plan to save the Tribune's Esop from taxes went bust and DeSilva + Phillips on how bad 2008 really was.

No protection

With markets beaten down so low, there should be opportunities galore for PE, so why is everyone so gloomy?

Fonts of wisdom

Three publishers offer solutions to the dire state of print. You don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Weatherproofed

Fitch gives media and entertainment a good chance of surviving the crisis. despite a few weak spots.

Ownership society

Some Los Angeles Times employees file suit arguing that Sam Zell took them to the cleaners. If they don't watch it, both parties may be staring into the grave.