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Topic Archive: Sam Zell
Perhaps Sam Zell realized his troubled new company needs a full-time boss, or maybe he just tired of his newspaper toys after a few months...
Posted May 7, 2008 11:28 PM
Tribune innovation czar Lee Abrams blogs that before coming to Los Angeles, "For years I have heard the Industry dirt on the Los Angeles Times....
Posted May 5, 2008 04:55 PM
Sam Zell's new innovation guru, Lee Abrams, uses a video on the company site to explain his vision of how the 1950s growth of rock...
Posted April 24, 2008 02:56 PM
As of January 1, the Tribune began charging employees who smoke $100 a month more for their health care. Today the new Tribune did away...
Posted April 22, 2008 03:15 PM
Mark Lacter listened in on Sam Zell's conference call today with analysts and didn't hear much that was new. Zell says employees keep telling him...
Posted April 17, 2008 12:25 PM
San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob writes today that "I was sued by the owner of the Los Angeles Times for speaking my mind about...
Posted April 16, 2008 12:37 PM
Now that's he actually on the job, Lee Abrams is pleasantly surprised to found there are lots of people in his company who actually know...
Posted April 15, 2008 10:57 AM
RJ Smith at Los Angeles magazine conducted interviews with all six living ex-editors of the Los Angeles Times, a group whose time in charge spans...
Posted April 15, 2008 07:40 AM
Just passing along what I was told this morning from a possibly good source — no confirmation, no independent reporting, no warranty implied. But my...
Posted April 11, 2008 09:06 AM
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik got hold of an audio tape of Sam Zell's morale-sapping remarks at the L.A. Times and Tribune Washington bureau in...
Posted April 9, 2008 08:46 AM
OK, we get it. Sam Zell keeps saying the people who work at Tribune, its TV stations and newspapers take themselves too seriously. This new...
Posted April 7, 2008 05:20 PM
Four more Clear Channel executives jumped to Tribune last week, and together with the radio and TV veterans that had already joined the Sam Zell...
Posted April 6, 2008 09:35 PM
Tribune's new innovation honcho Lee Abrams finally began work today after a career in radio and a bunch of pre-memos. He immediately blogged his notes...
Posted April 2, 2008 11:39 AM
Times legal affairs writer Henry Weinstein's voice carries a lot of weight in the newsroom and his departure may be the one affecting staff morale...
Posted March 30, 2008 12:56 AM
Many of the journalists who departed the L.A. Times on Friday sent farewells to the newsroom. Some directed messages at Tribune owner Sam Zell. Here's...
Posted March 30, 2008 12:43 AM
Friday was clean out their desk day for the editors, writers and other staffers who left the Los Angeles Times in the lastest wave of...
Posted March 29, 2008 11:37 AM
Reporter Myron Levin, one of the veteran reporters to take the Los Angeles Times buyout, checked out today with a farewell email to the entire...
Posted March 27, 2008 05:12 PM
Sam Zell wants his "partners" in the Tribune empire to send their ideas to a new online Idea Bank -- and to make withdrawals too....
Posted March 26, 2008 12:39 PM
CEO Sam Zell enjoyed the little dig his Chicago Tribune got in on the rival Sun-Times, which held a contest to let readers' express their...
Posted March 24, 2008 04:31 PM
Tribune CEO Sam Zell just sent all the "partners" — his title for the employees who put up the money for him to buy the...
Posted March 20, 2008 01:58 PM
Sam Zell's new company endured a $78 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2007 compared to a a profit of $233 million in the...
Posted March 20, 2008 12:06 PM
Note to KTLA: the TV station that Sam Zell's Tribune company owns in South Florida is moving in with the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel newspaper. Zell...
Posted March 19, 2008 09:12 AM
In his first visit to the Wall Street Journal’s D.C. bureau, new owner Rupert Murdoch told staffers that he would put more resources into Washington...
Posted March 11, 2008 09:05 AM
How often can the people who actually have to run the L.A. Times cover for Sam Zell's...Zelliousnness? This time, Publisher David Hiller sent the Washington...
Posted February 28, 2008 03:46 PM
The eminent domain measure on the June ballot would also phase out some rent control laws, potentially resulting in a $15 million windfall for Sam...
Posted February 28, 2008 12:40 AM
Michael Tackett, who runs the Chicago Tribune's side of the big bureau in Washington that the LAT dominates, tells Editor & Publisher that his people...
Posted February 27, 2008 11:47 AM
Chicago Tribune media columnist Phil Rosenthal covers yesterday's Sam Zell attack on the LAT Washington bureau, and it goes beyond the psychic bloodbath I picked...
Posted February 27, 2008 08:59 AM
I'm told Sam Zell just informed the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau that there's way too many people there and they should start acting like...
Posted February 26, 2008 11:21 AM
Inspired by Zell's comments last night at the Hammer, my LA Observed segment on KCRW at 4:44 pm wonders why anyone sees him as a...
Posted February 22, 2008 04:39 PM
I listened to Sam Zell answer questions Thursday night at the Hammer Museum, then afterward shook his hand and chatted a bit about the Times...
Posted February 21, 2008 10:06 PM
Alert YouTube. Sam Zell makes his first public appearance in Los Angeles Thursday since all that foofah over his demeaning language — and the launch...
Posted February 20, 2008 06:25 PM
Vinnie Malcolm will be leaving the building at Channel 5. He may already be gone. Staffers aren't clear just how hard he was pushed, but...
Posted February 19, 2008 12:26 PM
Portfolio's Jack Flack tries to answer a provocative question: who is the smarter newspaper owner, Sam Zell or Rupert Murdoch. It might be an unfair...
Posted February 14, 2008 04:50 PM
While I was on the road, Mark Lacter picked up the news that Sam Zell ordered staff cuts at the Times and across Tribune, citing...
Posted February 13, 2008 11:18 PM
Bad timing. As soon as I finished and posted the previous item on some LAT concerns about the reaction to Sam Zell's style, I received...
Posted February 11, 2008 06:38 PM
So you get the choice assignment: illustrate a story on the science of orgasm. Problem: How do you depict something you can't see? Caveat: It's...
Posted February 11, 2008 06:18 PM
Sam Zell apparently got enough feedback about his boorish (at best) remarks at the Times and Orlando Sentinel last week that he sent out a...
Posted February 11, 2008 11:41 AM
The pressmen at the Times' printing plant asked Sam Zell during last week's visit why the bosses wouldn't let them have a pool table to...
Posted February 11, 2008 12:51 AM
As of now, Sam Zell has his own category at LA Observed. Signs are it will be a busy one. I get now what New...
Posted February 8, 2008 09:45 AM
Times pressman Ed Padgett blogs that Sam Zell was a big hit at the paper's downtown printing plant this morning. The new boss also brought...
Posted February 7, 2008 06:22 PM
New owner Sam Zell apparently lit into ex-editor Jim O'Shea during this morning's talk to L.A. Times employees. If I get better reports, or the...
Posted February 7, 2008 11:21 AM
Sam Zell is turning out to be prickly about having his wisdom about journalism challenged, even slightly. He got all huffy about a question in...
Posted February 4, 2008 11:58 AM
As several KTLA staffers have emailed to remind me, the station had been blocking employees' access to LA Observed. Even while cooperating from time to...
Posted January 22, 2008 01:23 PM
Tribune chairman Sam Zell decrees that his properties will no longer filter the Internet content that employees can view. Via email to staffers: From: Talk...
Posted January 22, 2008 11:42 AM
New Tribune chairman Sam Zell emailed the Times staff: From: Talk to Sam Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:04 AM Subject: Jim O'Shea's departure Everyone,...
Posted January 21, 2008 11:29 AM
A new employee handbook from the Zell regime went out to all 20,000 Tribune "owners" today. It tries to distance the new Zellian Tribune from...
Posted January 16, 2008 11:51 PM
The New Yorker's Connie Bruck examines the personality that is Sam Zell and his deal to acquire Tribune, and comes up with some earthy quotes...
Posted November 5, 2007 09:15 AM
Sam Zell was in Beverly Hills today and more or less swore that he has no plans to sell the Los Angeles Times, assuming that...
Posted October 9, 2007 09:32 PM
Sam Zell doesn't yet have control of the Tribune Company — and tried to reassure a skeptical stock market today that he will — but...
Posted August 14, 2007 03:24 PM
Strong words from financial analyst Jim Cramer at The Street.com about the pending Tribune Company sale. Make that red flags and warning sirens: You have...
Posted July 17, 2007 07:59 PM
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