Title The deal from hell : how moguls and Wall Street plundered great American newspapers / James O'Shea.

Publication Info.	New York : PublicAffairs, [2011]
	©2011

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PN4874.O785 A3 2011	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	x, 395 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : the merger -- Beginnings : Des Moines -- Across the street -- Otis Chandler's legacy -- Twilight -- The new order -- The cereal killer -- His seat on the dais -- Inside the merger -- Making news -- A changing landscape -- Market-driven journalism -- Buy the numbers -- Count Kern -- Civil war -- Up against a saint and a dead man -- Before the fall -- The penguin parable -- Closing the deal -- Zell hell.
Summary	Presents a behind-the-scenes look at how the Tribune Company went from having the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world in 2000 to bankruptcy and public scandal after executives and editors made a series of flawed decisions.
Subject	O'Shea, James (James E.)
	O'Shea, James (James E.)
	Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
	Journalists.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Newspaper editors -- United States -- Biography.
	Newspaper editors.
	Los Angeles times -- History -- 21st century.
	Los Angeles times.
	History.
Chronological Term	21st century
Subject	Newspaper publishing -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
	Newspaper publishing.
	California -- Los Angeles.
	American newspapers -- Ownership.
	American newspapers -- Ownership.
	Press monopolies -- United States.
	Press monopolies.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
ISBN	9781586487911 hardcover
	1586487914 hardcover
	9781586488659 e-book
	1586488651 e-book
	1610391896
	9781610391894