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Cronkite, Walter
Cruzen, Nancy
Culver Military Academy
Cuomo, Mario
Curie, James
Curtiss, Aaron
Czack, Richie
D
Daley, Richard
Dallas Morning New
s
Davis, Jack
“Deal fatigue,”
Death penalty cases, series on, in
Chicago Tribune
de Lama, George
Dellios, Hugh
Denley, Susan
Depreciation deductions
Des Moines Register
circulation of
Cowles family as publishers of
Des Moines Tribune
and
editing of
independence of
local stories in
newsroom of
O'Shea, James at
Pulitzer Prizes of
Raffensperger, Gene at
Zeleny hired from
Detroit Times
Devereaux, Greg
Dewey, Thomas E.
Dimon, Jamie
Dinkins, David
Discounted stock acquisition plans, of Tribune employees
Distressed properties, Zell purchase of
Distribution.
See also
Circulation, newspaper
Distribution Systems of America (DSA)
Dividends, Times Mirror Company
Dole, Robert
Donahue Paper Corp. of Canada
“Do not call” list
Dowdle, Jim
Dow Jones & Company.
See also Wall Street Journal
Downing, Kathryn
Drudge, Matt
Drudge Report
Dubois, Jules
Duff & Phelps investment bankers
Duplication of content
E
“Editing by referendum,”
Editor-reporter tension
Edward, Edwin
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
el Periodico
El Vocero de Puerto Rico
newspaper
EPIC (End Poverty in California) platform
Epton, Bernie
Equity Group Investments (EGI)
Equity Office Properties
Erburu, Robert
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip
ESOP (employee stock ownership plans), as funding instrument
Estate taxes.
See also
Chandler family
Ethics policy, at
Chicago Tribune
Evening newspapers, decline of
F
“Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois” (Armstrong, Possley, and Mills)
Family paper content
Fax machine
Feder, Robert
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Federal banking regulations
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Feldman, Larry
Field, Marshall
Field family
Fifteen Minutes public relations
Financing schemes, for newspaper industry
Finke, Nikki
FitzSimons, Dennis J.
cash needs in Zell deal and
centralization of editorial decision making and
Chandler family tensions with
control by
cost-cutting pressure on
as Dowdle's right-hand man
golden parachute of
Internal Revenue Service challenges to
Kotter and
at KTLA party
market-driven journalism and
on McCormick Foundation board
Newsday
circulation fraud case and
on page one ads
refusal to meet with Turkish prime minister
Rumsfeld and
as Tribune Company CEO
in WGN-TV advertising sales
as WGN-TV head
on Zell proposal
Zell relationship with
zoned local sections, preference for
Flansburg, James
Foley, Harold
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ford, Gerald
Ford, Henry
Fordham University
Fort Dodge Messenger
Fox Broadcasting
Fox News
Frankel, Max
Frantz, Douglas
Fraudulent conveyance charge
Freedom of Information Act
Front Page, The
(Hecht and MacArthur)
FUDGE ABC software program
Fuller, Jack
background of
Carroll hired by
Newsday
circulation fraud case and
News Values
by
resignation of
Zell acquisition and
G
“Gag Law,” McCormick challenge to
Gannett, Frank
Gannett Corporation
Gannett Newspaper Group
Garcia, Robert
Gartner, Michael
Geffen, David
Gehry, Frank
General Mills, Inc.
Giaimo, Joseph O.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm
Giffords, Gabrielle
Goldberg, Nick
Goldman Sachs
Chandler stock sale to
consolidation interests of
Times Mirror directors advised by
Graham, Katharine
Graham, Philip
Graham family.
See also Washington Post
Grant, Johnny
Grazer, Brian
Greeley, Horace
Greene, Bob
Greenspun, Brian L.
Greenthal, Jill
Greising, David
Gremillion, Bob
Grenesko, Donald
Grey Advertising
Gridiron dinner
Grumhaus, Hal
Guggenheim, Harry
H
Haider, Don
Halberstam, David
Hamill, Pete
Harris, Ira
Harry N. Abrams publishing
Hartford Courant
Harvard Business School
Harvard Crimson
student newspaper
Harvard University
Hearst, William Randolph
Hecht, Ben
Hiller, David
background of
on Baquet speech at AP Managing Editors convention (2006)
blog of
as
Chicago Tribune
publisher
editorial pages reporting to
on FitzSimons as CEO
hiring freeze of
Hoy
newspaper and
Los Angeles Times
issues and
as McCormick Foundation CEO
Newsday
circulation fraud case and
O'Shea's firing and
O'Shea's relationship with
staff cuts of
on strategically located news bureaus
Times Mirror purchase idea of
transformative change and
Zell deal cost cutting of
Zell's relationship with
Hiltzik, Michael
Hinckley, Gordon
Hirt, Jane
Hofmeister, Sallie
Hoge, James
Holden, Betsy
Hollywood Walk of Fame event
Holt, Margaret
Homel, Benjamin
Hood, Raymond
Hoover, Herbert
Hopper, Hedda
Horrock, Nicholas
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Houston Chronicle
Howard, Roy
Howell, John
Hoy
LLC, fraudulent inflation of circulation numbers
Huber, Craig
Huntley, Chet
Hurricane Katrina
Hussein, Saddam
Hutchins Commission on the Freedom of the Press
I
Ingrassia, Paul
Inland Empire
Insolvency, federal banking regulations and
Inter American Press Association
Interest rates in late 1970s,
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
International Creative Management
Internet
Chicago Tribune
content on
classified advertising affected by
Classified Ventures and
Harry Chandler's interest in
LATimes.com
24-hour coverage on
news industry response to
newspaper impact of
print journalists vs.
speed vs. accuracy on
traditional media business model and
Unterman view of
Investment bankers.
See
Zell, Sam
Iraq
Alford in
budget to cover
Hussein victims in
local news vs. coverage of
war in
J
Jackson, Michael
Jacobson, Darryl
Jacor Radio
Jain, Sanjay
Jansen, Ray
Jenner & Block law firm
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
John Birch Society,
LA Times
investigation of
Johnson, Jeffrey
Johnson, Kim
Johnson, Tom
Jones, Bill
Jones, Tim
Jordan, Michael
Journalism
“anti-business,”
biased, unfair (McCormick)
in Chicago.
See also Chicago Tribune
circulation declines and;
See also
Newspaper industry, decline of
Columbia University School of Journalism
corporate
fundamental premise of
future of
“gods of,”
greed and business of
high standards in (Otis)
Internet and
investigative
Madigan distance from
Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism
market-driven
meaningful
politics and
print vs. broadcast
public service
Pulitzer Prize and.
See
Pulitzer Prize
Shorenstein Center at Harvard
sloppy
tabloid
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Washington
“yellow,”
See also Chicago Tribune; Des Moines Register; Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Orlando Sentinel
; and other named newspapers
Journalistic and business separation
Brumback on
Erburu on
Staples scandal and
Willes on
JPMorgan Chase
“Junk” circulation
K
Kamin, Blair
Kapadia, Rajesh
Kaplan, Todd
Kaul, Donald
Kellner, Jamie
Kenney, Crane
Kern, Gerould W.
centralized news desk idea of
as
Chicago Tribune
editor
as
Chicago Tribune
metro editor
at
Los Angeles Times
on natural disaster coverage
staff reductions by
synergy and
in Tribune Company
Kessler, Robert E.
Kickbacks
King, Pete
King, Rodney
King, Roger
King, Tom
King & Ballow law firm
King World Productions
Kirk, Jim
Kirkpatrick, Clayton
Klee, Kenneth N.
Kleiner Perkins, Inc.
Klunder, Jack
“junk” circulation reductions by
as
Los Angeles Times
circulation manager
on
Newsday
circulation fraud
Zell deal and
Kneeland, Douglas
Knight, Frank
Knight, Jack
Knight, Timothy
Knight Ridder Corp.
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Koldyke, Martin (Mike)
Kone, Korotoumou
Kotter, John
Kotz, Nick
Kraft Foods
Kristof, Kathy
Kruidenier, David
KTLA-TV
L
Labor, organized
Lance, Bert
Landers, Ann
LA Observed
blog
La Opinión
newspaper
Lardner, Ring
Larsen, Nils
Larson, Jimmy
Las Vegas Sun
Laventhol, David
Lawson, Victor
Lee, Jimmy
Lee, Steven
Legal publishing
Lehman Brothers
Leonard, Joe
Leveraged buyout
Leveraged recapitalization (stock buyback)
Lexington Herald-Leader
(Kentucky)
LexisNexis database
Liebling, A.J.
Life
magazine
Lincoln, Abraham
Lipinski, Ann Marie
Chicago News Cooperative (CNC) and
as
Chicago Tribune
deputy managing editor
as
Chicago Tribune
editor
ethics concerns of
FitzSimons and
front-page ad opposition of
merger and
O'Shea's alliance with
Pate and
Pulitzer Prize of
resignation of
Zell's meeting with
Lipton, Marty
Loan-packaging deals
Local news
Lombardo, Joey “The Clown,”
Long Beach Telegram
Long Island Press
Look
magazine
Lopez, Steve
Los Angeles Daily Business Journal
Los Angeles Times
advertising campaign of
bilingual sections of
correspondents of
history of.
See also
Chandler family

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