Newsonomics: A coast-to-coast newspaper shuffle is taking shape
From coast to coast, the spring scent of newspaper transactions hangs in the air. The big one — Apollo Global Management’s purchase of Digital First Media — is nearing completion. Meanwhile, sellers...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Tribune Publishing wraps its arms around San Diego — and all of...
Southern California, poking northward into Santa Barbara and stretching southward to the Mexican border, will soon become Tribune Territory. In a deal intended to be soon announced, Tribune Publishing...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Razor-thin profits are cutting into newspapers’ chances at...
Tribune Publishing pay a good price for its U-T San Diego acquisition (“Newsonomics: Tribune Publishing wraps its arms around San Diego — and all of Southern California”)? TPUB investors appear...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Buying Yelp — and making it the next core of the local news and...
Yelp’s for sale, and the news has generated the usual, now-tiresome lists of potential buyers: Google, Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook. It’s like all the money in the business world slid off one end of...
View ArticleNewsonomics: At the Times, the need for a private owner is L.A. consequential
It’s a trademark line of Austin Beutner’s: “I cannot imagine Los Angeles without a vibrant L.A. Times.” As anyone who follows media knows, the Los Angeles Times publisher’s imagination short-circuited...
View ArticleNewsonomics: In Southern California’s newspaper chaos, is anyone really...
William Baer, assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division, had already bluntly told all involved in the Freedom Communications newspaper bankruptcy auction that Tribune Publishing...
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Newsonomics: Can a Bezos buddy act help fend off Gannett’s bid for Tribune?
On Thursday, Tribune Publishing chairman Michael Ferro took to the airwaves, selling investors on his rejection of a seemingly generous takeover bid by Gannett. The company’s spent recent days talking...
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