Dec. 8, 2008
Tribune filed for bankruptcy-court protection, in a sign of worsening trouble for the newspaper industry.
Tribune has been on wobbly footing since last December, when real- estate mogul Samuel Zell led a debt-backed deal to take the company private. Tribune owns eight major daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, plus a string of local TV stations.
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