The Deal from Hell (57 page)

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After another lunch in his office, Zell
Author's interview with Ann Marie Lipinski, Chicago, IL, winter 2010.

331
In December 2008, the Tribune Company
“Tribune Company Files for Bankruptcy,” by
Dealbook
, December 8, 2008.

336
In Chicago, Zell had turned his attention
“Sam Zell's Deal from Hell,” by Emily Thornton, Michael Arndt, and Ronald Grover,
Business Week
, July 30, 2008. In this and other pieces, Zell said his investment in Tribune Company was a mistake, one that he labeled “The Deal from Hell.”

336
Heavily promoted stories about fake food
The stories and promotions cited by the author appeared on page one of the
Chicago Tribune
on October 1 and October 8, 2008.

337
When one Tribune editor pitched
Former Tribune associate managing editor for sports, Dan McGrath, was at the meeting in question and told the author about the decision, Chicago, IL, summer 2008.

338
Michaels used the Colonel's office for a poker
“Poker Party ‘des ecrates' Tribune Tower Shrine,” by Robert Feder, WBEZ 91.5, July 2, 2010. The piece by Feder included four pictures and a narrative of the event by John D. Phillips, the Tribune Tower manager appointed to his job by Michaels. Phillips posted the event on his Facebook page.

338
A terrace on the twenty-second floor of Tribune Tower
The incident involving the sexual tryst between the secretary and Michaels was first reported in an anonymous letter to the Tribune Company board. The author confirmed the incident with Mary Jo Mandula, who managed the building and oversaw the security services that employed the guard who discovered Michaels and the young woman. The author also confirmed the incident with another high-ranking security official at Tribune Tower, although the official discussed the incident and asked that his name not be used. The alleged “investigation” of the incident by an outside law firm dismissed the allegation in the letter because no one had filed a complaint with the Tribune's human relations department, which Michaels had downsized. In his
New York Times
story of October 6, 2010, David Carr disclosed the incident but Michaels' name was withheld.

339
“I feel compelled to report on some things . . .”
Anonymous letter to the Tribune board of directors outlining the sexual trysts and the hiring of numerous friends by Michaels. The letter, dated December 11, 2008, was signed “Concerned Employee.” The author examined an e-mail that disclosed that a Tribune director was made aware of the substance of the letter. The author agreed to withhold details of the e-mail in return for examining it. The letter said that Michaels' conduct was widely known within the company and Tribune Tower. The employee's letter to the board contained numerous examples of Michaels' antics.

341
Thomas E. Patterson, a professor of government
“Doing Well and Doing Good: How Soft News and Critical Journalism Are Shrinking the News Audience and Weakening Democracy—And What News Outlets Can Do About It,” by Thomas E. Patterson, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Cambridge, MA, December 2000.

343
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence
“How News Happens—A Study of the News Ecosystem of Baltimore,” January 11, 2010. The study by the Pew Center represents the only effort the author is aware of that attempts to document the true source of news in the age of the Internet.

343
the Sun has cut its newsroom by about 60 percent
Author's interview with sources knowledgeable about staffing levels at the
Baltimore Sun
. In 2004, the
Baltimore Sun
's newsroom was composed of approximately 384 staffers, about two-thirds of whom, or 253, were members of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the bargaining unit for employees that were not management. By 2011 there were 98.

ABC News

Abrams, Lee

Adams, John Quincy

Advertising, newspaper

business of

declining circulation and

Los Angeles Times
campaign

monopoly control of

on page one

strategies designed for

Airlines, lack of emergency medical equipment on

Alford, Kael

American Express

American Society of News Editors

America Online

Brumback investment in

Madigan sale of

Time Warner merger with

Amin, Idi

Andersen, Martin

Anderson, Lisa

Annenberg, Max

Annenberg, Moe

Anthan, George

Arlington Heights Daily Herald
(suburban Chicago)

Armstrong, Ken

Arnot, Bob

Arthur, John

Associated Advertising Club

Associated Press (AP)

Associated Press Managing Editors convention

Atorino, Edward

Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)

Brumback on

history of

newspaper connection to

purpose of

sales observations of

two percent list of

See also
Circulation, newspaper

Avetisian, Chris

Aviation Medical Assistance Act

Babcock, Susan

Begley, Ed. Jr,.

Bailey, Charles

Baker, Cissy

Baker, Howard

Ballin, Hugo

Ballow, Robert

Banar, Elaine

Bank of America

Baquet, Dean P.

AP Managing Editors convention speech (2006)

as centralization foe

foreign and national news staff reductions by

Los Angeles Times
as national paper of the West

as
Los Angeles Times
managing editor

as New Orleans reporter

on “news hole” of
Los Angeles Times

O'Shea replacing

Barry, Marion

Bartter, Brit

Baskes, Roger

Batista, Fulgencio

Bayonet, The
(7th Infantry Division, U.S. Army)

Beck, Edward Scott

Beck Awards

Beiser, Scott

Benchmark Company

Bennett, Phil

Berg, Jeffrey S.

Bernstein, Carl

Bigelow, Chandler

Bilingual sections, of
Los Angeles Times

Bingham family

Black Journalists Association

Blackstone Group

Blagojevich, Rod

Blau, Robert

Blogs

of Hiller

newsroom leaks to

Bloomberg News

Boudreaux, Richard

Boyarsky, Bill

Bragman, Howard

Brennan, Robert

Breslin, Jimmy

Brin, Sergey

Brinkley, David

Broad, Eli

Brown, Geoffrey

Brown, Jeffrey

Brown, Jerry

Brown, Pat

Brumback, Charles T.

on ABC circulation numbers

accountant background of

America Online investment by

CLTV cable news channel started by

on computerization

distribution changes by

on journalistic and business separation

Madigan as successor to

New Century Network of

at
Orlando Sentinel

productivity gains by

profit orientation of

Squires pressured by

on staffing levels

synergy demands of

Tribune Media Center and

Wall Street view of

Budget deficits, in Reagan presidency

Buettell, Ben

Burkle, Ronald

Burns, Greg

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

Bush, Vannevar

Business Week
magazine

Buyouts, employee

Cable TV

California Club

Capital Cities Communications

Carey, Kevin J.

Carlyle Group

Carr, David

Carroll, John S.

Baquet hiring by

“Editing by referendum” comment on FitzSimons

Los Angeles Times
as national paper of the West

Montorio hiring by

negative view of synergy of

newsroom understanding of

as Parks' replacement

Pulitzer Prize pursuit by

resignation of

Tribune
hostility toward

Carter, Jimmy

Castro, Fidel

Catledge, Turner

Cauthorn, Robert

CBS News

Centralization of editorial decision making.
See also
Synergy

Chandis Securities

Chandler, Dorothy “Buff,”

Chandler, Harry

Chandler, Norman

Chandler, Otis

family history

John Birch Society investigation of

journalistic standards of

Los Angeles Times
bureaus and

Los Angeles Times
controlled by

parents of

retirement of

staff reverence for

on Staples scandal

Wolinsky and

Chandler, Philip

Chandler family

financial windfalls of

FitzSimons' tensions with

Goldman Sachs stock buy from

as local publishing monopoly

on merger

Nixon and

special dividend scandal (1994)

stock sales by

super-voting status of Times Mirror stock of

Times Mirror Company stock of

Tribune Company and

unwinding of trusts by

Willes recruited by

Willes' tension with

Charity scam investigation

Charles Schwab & Co.

Chase, Marc

Chen, Yang

Chicago Bulls basketball team

Chicago City Council corruption investigation

Chicago Cubs baseball team

Chicago News Cooperative (CNC)

Chicago Online

America Online investment by

ethics policy of

foreign and national news coverage of

headquarters of

history of

Jones, Bill, at

junk circulation of

Madigan as publisher of

McCormick and Medill legacy to

newsroom of

profit margins of

Pulitzer Prizes of

Republican Party and

Washington, D.C., bureau of

See also
Merger, of
Chicago Tribune
and
Los Angeles Times

Chicago White Sox baseball team

Childreach

Children International

Children's charities, investigation of

Chinatown
(film)

Choi, Jieun

Christian Brothers

Christian Children's Fund

Christopher, Warren

Ciccone, F. Richard

Circulation, newspaper

advertising declines due to

of
Des Moines Register

maintaining

monopoly control of

Newsday
and
Hoy
fraudulent inflation of

Willes' increases in

Citigroup

City News

Classified Ad Federation, NAA

Classified advertising

on Internet

Internet effect on newspaper

monopoly control of

Monster.com
effect on

real estate decline of

reductions in

Classified Ventures

Clayton, Janet

Clear Channel Communications

Clinton, Bill

CLTV cable news channel

CNN

“Code Blue” (Crewdson)

Cody, Cardinal John

Coen, Jeff

Coffey, Shelby, III

Cohn, Marty

Cohen, Peter

Collins, Gail

Co-location

Columbia University

Columbia University School of Journalism

Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado

Column One feature, in
Los Angeles Times

Combs, Sean Diddy

Comics, in
Chicago Tribune

Communism, false accusations of

Community leaders, newspapers as

Computerization

Computershare Trust Co.

Consolidation pressure, on newspapers

Convergence of media

Cook, Stan

Brumback as successor to

Kirkpatrick and

Salomon Brothers and

“Cops and Confessions” (Possley and Mills)

Costa, Michael

Cowles, Gardner

Cowles family.
See also Des Moines Register

Cox Enterprises

Crawford, Jan

Credit default swaps

Crewdson, John