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Huffington Post: Social media team drives up traffic at Chicago Tribune
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 15 2008, 11.49am
The Chicago Tribune's move into the social media world of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter has result in an 8 per cent rise in page views. (more)

EveryBlock teams up with the Chicago Tribune
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 24 2008, 4.01pm
EveryBlock, the local news and data aggregation service, has gone into a beta partnership with the Chicago Tribune. The paper will publish a map and local news articles powered by EveryBlock, an announcement on the site's blog says. Articles from the last 48 hours will be plotted on the Trib map to allow users to search [...] (more)

NYTimes: Tribune employees start protest blog against job cuts
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 22 2008, 1.00pm
Journalists facing the axe at Tribune's titles are using the Tell Zell blog to protest against the publisher's owner Sam Zell. (more)

Chicago Tribune to cut 80 newsroom jobs
From Media Guardian. Posted July 9 2008, 4.21pm
Newspaper to eliminate 80 of its current 578 newsroom positions and reduce the number of pages it publishes by 13% to 14% each week (more)

Eighty newsroom jobs to go at Chicago Tribune
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 9 2008, 9.56am
The Chicago Tribune is to follow the LA Times by culling newsroom jobs and reducing the number of pages in its printed editions. Around 80 of its 578 newsroom posts are expected to be culled with further cuts appearing in non-journalistic positions. The printed edition of the Tribune is expected to reduce the number of pages it [...] (more)

International Herald Tribune launches iPhone site
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 7 2008, 3.42pm
IHT.com has developed a version of the site for iPhone users. The version is 'iPhone optimised' rather than being an iPhone app - e.g. an application built exclusively for the iPhone - co-creator Michael Cosentino is keen to point out in a blog post. Last week the New York Times announced plans to develop an application [...] (more)

Staff fear for jobs as Tribune Company cuts news pages
From Press Gazette. Posted June 10 2008, 12.00am
One of America's biggest newspaper chains has issued an edict: advertising pages must equal the amount of editorial space. (more)

Zell's Tribune may cut about 500 newspaper pages a week
From Media Guardian. Posted June 6 2008, 4.56pm
Tribune Co officials think the media concern "could take about 500 pages out of our newspapers every week," company-wide, by reducing the proportion of editorial content to advertising to a 50-50 level, chief operating officer Randy Michaels told the Chicago company's creditors yesterday (more)

NYTimes.com: Chicago Tribune to deliver TV critic’s picks through TiVo
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 29 2008, 10.00am
The Chicago Tribune has reportedly signed a deal with digital video recorder manufacturer TiVo that will see the selections of its TV critic Maureen Ryan automatically delivered to the sets of subscribers to the service. (more)

Al Jazeera English retools after defections - Herald Tribune
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 18 2008, 12.41pm
The English-language offshoot of Al Jazeera, the Arabic television news network, is pushing for a “breakthrough” that would make the channel available to American TV viewers and help it move beyond a turbulent start-up phase, according to its new managing director, Tony Burman. The hiring of Burman, a former editor in chief of the Canadian Broadcasting [...] (more)

Eritrean opposition radio starts broadcasting from Ethiopia - Sudan Tribune
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 8 2008, 11.31am
Sudan Tribune reports: A coalition of Eritrean opposition groups backed by big supporters in Exile have launched an anti-Isayas radio broadcast. The broadcast, which has been on trial since January, is based in the northern Ethiopia Tigray region’s Mekelle city. Recently some 11 Eritrean opposition groups have launched TV broadcasts in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa [...] (more)

Tribune, Gannett, Hearst and NY Times Co join forces to sell US web ads
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted February 15 2008, 12.00am
Deal announced as news of further job cuts in the NY Times newsroom comes to light    (more)

Zell takes control of the Tribune
From Financial Times. Posted December 21 2007, 12.19am
Sam Zell, the billionaire property investor, took control of the Chicago Tribune newspaper and television group following the completion of a $8.2bn buy-out first mooted almost nine months ago (more)

Regulator to call vote over Tribune
From Financial Times. Posted November 29 2007, 2.00am
The $8.2bn buy-out of the newspaper publisher by Sam Zell could win regulatory approval after the chief media regulator said he was ready to call a vote on the deal (more)

Property boss wins Chicago Tribune bid
From Media Guardian. Posted April 3 2007, 1.00am
A billionaire real estate magnate, Sam Zell, has won a six-month auction for US newspaper empire Tribune Company. By Andrew Clark in Chicago. (more)

US broadcast efforts in Cuba worth the cost? asks Chicago Tribune
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 16 2006, 11.17am
“After 20 years and more than $530 million, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting operates a radio station that by the US government’s own estimates has suffered a precipitous drop in listenership and a television station that may never have been seen by anyone in Cuba for more than a few minutes at a time.” So [...] (more)

Tamil Tigers to move TV station out of France: Asian Tribune
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 11 2006, 10.37am
A report in the Asian Tribune says that the Tamil Tiger leadership in France is presently making frantic moves to shift the Tamil Television Network (TTN) from Paris to Geneva. It’s understood that the Sri Lanka’s separatist Tamil rebel outfit has got cold feet after French authorities moved to examine closely the activities of the [...] (more)

LA Times for sale as Tribune decides to break up the empire
From Media Guardian. Posted November 3 2006, 12.00am
US newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, are up for sale after indications from publisher Tribune Company that it is willing to break itself up. By Andrew Clark in New York. (more)

Shortwave radio era looks short-lived - International Herald Tribune
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 24 2006, 2.56pm
Doreen Carvajal writes in the International Herald Tribune: “Perhaps it is fitting that a 50-second video clip of an ear-shattering explosion of 13 shortwave radio antenna towers on the Spanish Costa Brava is getting viewers on the Web site YouTube. It took 32 pounds, or 14.5 kilograms, of dynamite to fell the massive antennas, which [...] (more)

?In getting voice out, Islamic radio stutters? - International Herald Tribune
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 2 2006, 10.50am
Doreen Carvajal writes in the International Herald Tribune that “The efforts of Islamic countries to get their governments’ views out in a language accessible to audiences elsewhere appear halting compared with a headlong rush in the United States, Germany, France, Russia and Britain to start or expand Arabic programming in a variety of media.” She points [...] (more)

International Herald Tribune says Free North Korea Radio is broadcasting from Mongolia
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 21 2006, 10.56am
The 20 July edition of the International Herald Tribune has a feature on Free North Korea Radio, which broadcasts a 30-minute daily programme into North Korea, produced in Seoul. The story says that “Within hours, beamed from a transmitter in Mongolia, Kim’s radio signals penetrate North Korea’s tightly sealed borders with news of the outside [...] (more)

International Herald Tribune launches personalised audio news feed
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 12 2006, 9.30pm
News site claims a 'world first' for text-to-speech feature (more)

International Herald Tribune launches personalized audio news feed
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 12 2006, 7.15pm
IHT claim at a world first - but is it justified? (more)

Korean citizen journalists get shot at Herald Tribune
From Media Guardian. Posted May 31 2006, 7.38am
The International Herald Tribune, the global newspaper owned by the New York Times, is to carry stories written by members of the public. By Bobbie Johnson and Michael Fitzpatrick. (more)

North-west paper signs deal with Herald Tribune
From Media Guardian. Posted April 26 2006, 6.10pm
5.15pm: The North West Enquirer, the new regional weekly newspaper that launches tomorrow, has signed up the International Herald Tribune to provide news and features. By Stephen Brook. (more)