Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Throughout my career, usually because of convenience but more likely out of desperation, I always managed to take off the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and every year when I returned to East Elm Street on Jan. 2, my administrative assistant would ask, “How was your vacation?” Don’t you hate that question? Vacations, at [...]

  When Tribune Company bought Times Mirror in what was called “The Deal of the Century” by Editor and Publisher magazine, everyone thought the revenue would come rolling in, and this new creation would become the premier newspaper company in America, propelled largely by the “national buy” it could provide advertisers because it had properties [...]