Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Tribune may split up and dump its newspapers


The Tribune Company may sell its newspapers once it exits bankruptcy Dec. 31. The Tribune may create eight companies, put its worst debt in a few and then sell the others.

Rupert Murdoch, Fox empire mogul, is interested.

Click on the next line to read the story by Andrew Beaujon in Bloomberg News.

The Orange County Register, former Beacon Journal reporter John Dunphy’s final newspaper before his retirement, may merge with the Los Angeles Times after the bankruptcy exit.

Attorneys have billed the Tribune $138 million to handle its bankruptcy case.

In 2010 MediaNews Group, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Morris Publishing Group and Journal Register dumped three-quarters of their debt -- nearly $2 billion --  in exchange for a percentage of ownership.





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