Tribune Publishing Company (briefly Tronc, Inc.) is an American newspaper print and

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publishing company. The company, which was acquired by Alden Global Capital in May 2021, has a portfolio that includes the ''

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'', the ''

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'', South Florida's '' Sun-Sentinel'', ''

The Virginian-Pilot ''The Virginian-Pilot'' is the daily newspaper for Hampton Roads, Virginia. Commonly known as ''The Pilot'', it is Virginia's largest daily. It serves the five cities of South Hampton Roads as well as several smaller towns across southeast Virgi ...

'', the ''

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'', additional titles in

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and

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, syndication operations, and websites. It also publishes several local newspapers in its metropolitan regions, which are organized in subsidiary groups. Incorporated in 1847 with the founding of the ''Chicago Tribune'', Tribune Publishing operated as a division of the

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, a Chicago-based multimedia conglomerate, until it was spun off into a separate public company in August 2014. The company confirmed its sale to

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Alden Global Capital on May 21, 2021. The transaction officially closed on May 25. Prior to this acquisition, Tribune Publishing was the nation's third-largest newspaper publisher (behind

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and

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), with eleven daily newspapers and

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tabloids throughout the United States. With the acquisition, Alden Global Capital became the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States.

History

Early history

Tribune Publishing's history dates back to 1847, when the ''

'' (for which the company and its former parent, Tribune Media, are named) published its first edition on June 10 of that year, in a one-room plant at LaSalle and

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Streets in Chicago. The ''Tribune'' constructed its first building, a four-story structure at Dearborn and Madison streets, in 1869; however the building was destroyed, along with most of the city, by the

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in October 1871. The ''Tribune'' resumed printing two days later with an editorial declaring "Chicago Shall Rise Again". The newspaper's editor and part-owner,

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, was elected mayor and led the city's reconstruction. A native

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an who first acquired an interest in the ''Tribune'' in 1855, Medill gained full control of the newspaper in 1874 and ran it until his death in 1899. Medill's two grandsons, cousins Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, assumed leadership of the company in 1911. That same year, the ''Chicago Tribune''s first newsprint mill opened in Thorold, Ontario, Canada. The mill marked the beginnings of the Canadian newsprint producer later known as QUNO, in which Tribune held an investment interest until 1995. The Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate was formed in 1918, leading to Joseph Patterson's establishment of the company's second newspaper, the ''

New York Daily News The ''Daily News'' is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in Tabloid (newspaper format ...

'' on June 26, 1919. Tribune's ownership of the New York City tabloid was considered "interlocking" due to an agreement between McCormick and Patterson.

Expansion

The company acquired the Fort Lauderdale-based '' Sun-Sentinel'' newspaper in 1963; this was later followed by its purchase of the ''

'' in 1965. In 1973, the company began sharing stories among 25 subscriber newspapers via the newly formed news service, the Knight News Wire. By 1990, this service was known as Knight-Ridder/Tribune and provided graphics, photo, and news content to its member newspapers. KRT became McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, which is owned by the Tribune Company and McClatchy, when

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purchased Knight-Ridder Inc. in 2006. Tribune later acquired the Newport News, Virginia-based '' Daily Press'' in 1986. In the wake of a dispute with some of its labor unions, the ''New York Daily News'' was sold to British businessman

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in 1991. In June 2000, Tribune acquired the Los Angeles-based

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in a merger deal worth $8.3 billion, which was the largest acquisition in the history of the newspaper industry. The merger added seven daily newspapers to Tribune's portfolio, including the ''

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'', the Long Island-based ''

Newsday ''Newsday'' is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI" ...

'', ''

The Baltimore Sun ''The Baltimore Sun'' is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news. Founded in 1837, the newspaper was owned by Tribune Publi ...

'', and the ''

''. Tribune Media Net, the national advertising sales organization of Tribune Publishing, was established in 2000 to take advantage of the company's expanded scale and scope. Later in the decade, Tribune launched daily newspapers targeting urban commuters, including the ''Chicago Tribune'' ''

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'' edition in 2002, followed by an investment in ''

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'' one year later. In 2006, Tribune acquired the minority equity interest in ''AM New York'', giving it full ownership of the newspaper. The company sold both ''Newsday'' and ''AM New York'' to Cablevision Systems Corporation in 2008, with the sale of the latter paper closing on July 29 of that year.

Takeover by Sam Zell and bankruptcy

On April 2, 2007, Chicago-based investor Sam Zell announced plans to buy out the Tribune Company for $34.00 a share, totaling $8.2 billion, with intentions to take the company private. The deal was approved by 97% of the company's shareholders on August 21, 2007. Privatization of the Tribune Company occurred on December 20, 2007, with Tribune's stock listing being terminated at the close of the trading day. On December 8, 2008, faced with a high debt load totaling $13 billion, related to the company's

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and subsequent privatization, and a sharp downturn in newspaper advertising revenue, Tribune filed for

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in what was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the American media industry. Company plans called for it to emerge from bankruptcy by May 31, 2010, but the company would end up in protracted bankruptcy proceedings for four years. On July 13, 2012, the Tribune Company received approval of a reorganization plan to allow the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a

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bankruptcy court. Oaktree Capital Management,

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and Angelo, Gordon & Co., which were the company's senior debt holders, assumed control of Tribune's properties upon the company's exit from bankruptcy on December 31, 2012.

Spin-off of publishing unit

On February 26, 2013, Tribune reportedly hired investment firms

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and J.P. Morgan & Co. to oversee the sale of its newspapers. On July 10, 2013, Tribune announced that it would split into two companies, spinning off its publishing division into the Tribune Publishing Company. Its broadcasting, digital media and other assets (including GraceNote) would remain with the Tribune Company. On November 20, 2013, Tribune announced it would cut 700 jobs from its newspaper properties due to declining advertising revenues. On June 17, 2014, in a presentation for lenders, Tribune revealed that it had set August 4 as the target date for its spin-off of Tribune Publishing. The split was finalized on the target date, with the publishing arm being spun out as Tribune Publishing Company, and its former parent company being renamed Tribune Media.

Post spin-off

Tribune Publishing acquired six suburban daily and 32 weekly newspapers in the

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in October 2014. These acquisitions were similar in strategy to earlier acquisitions in the state of Maryland, expanding its footprint in its eight "core markets". On May 7, 2015, Tribune Publishing announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the '' San Diego Union-Tribune'' and its associated properties for $85 million, ending the paper's 146 years of private ownership. Following the completion of the acquisition, the ''Union-Tribune'' and the ''Los Angeles Times'' became part of a new operating entity known as the California News Group, led by ''Times'' publisher and CEO Timothy E. Ryan. The two California papers retained distinct operations, but sought a synergy with content sharing between them. In April 2016,

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(which, much like Tribune, had spun out its broadcasting properties into a separate firm to focus on publishing assets) made an unsolicited bid to acquire Tribune Publishing for $12.25 per-share, or around $400 million. This deal was rejected by Tribune's shareholders in May 2016; in turn, Gannett increased its offer to around $15 per-share (around $800 million). On May 17, 2016, Tribune chairman Michael Ferro stated that he intended to make a bid to acquire Gannett instead. On November 1, 2016, Gannett announced that it would no longer pursue its acquisition of Tronc.

''tronc'' era

On June 2, 2016, the company announced that it would rebrand itself as ''tronc'', short for "Tribune online content". The rebranding took place on June 20, 2016. Tronc began trading on

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under the symbol TRNC. In June 2018, the Tribune Company announced that it would no longer be referred to as Tronc and would instead henceforth be called "Tribune Publishing". At the time in 2016 that the company moved into calling itself ''tronc'', chief technology officer Malcolm CasSelle and chief digital officer Anne Vasquez announced to employees initiatives in content optimization,

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, and increasing the amount of video to 50% of all content by 2017, in an effort to increase reader engagement and ad revenue. The company also introduced a new slogan, ''From Pixels to Pulitzers''. The video announcement was derided in social and print media as full of buzzwords and lacking substance. On August 7, 2016, while criticising several aspects of a corporate restructuring that went along with the rebranding (for instance a shift of focus away from hard news towards usage maximization, which he perceived as undue), satirist

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mocked this new name as "the sound an ejaculating elephant makes", and (ironically) "the sound of a stack of newspapers hitting a dumpster." ''

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'' said, "Sounds like a Millennial falling down the stairs." On March 13, 2017, tronc announced that it would license Arc, the

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of ''

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''. On September 4, 2017, tronc announced that it had acquired the New York ''Daily News''. Having been established in 1919 by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, the ''Daily News'' had been owned by the Tribune Company before its sale to

in 1991 and then to Mortimer Zuckerman in 1993. Tronc purchased the ''Daily News'' for $1 plus the assumption of its liabilities. On July 23, 2018, tronc announced massive layoffs at the paper, and ousted its editor in chief. On February 7, 2018, tronc announced the sale of its California properties (''

'', ''San Diego Union-Tribune'') to Patrick Soon-Shiong for $500 million, with the buyer also assuming of $90 million in pension liabilities. The sale closed on June 18 that year and Tribune Publishing announced at the time that it would no longer be referred to as ''tronc''.

Tribune Publishing

On June 19, 2018, it was reported that tronc would revert its name back to Tribune Publishing; this would be confirmed by the company in October of that year. In July 2018 tronc moved their headquarters from Tribune Tower several blocks south to One Prudential Plaza. In January 2019, Tribune announced that industry veteran Timothy P. Knight would succeed Justin Dearborn as CEO. Dearborn had served as CEO since 2016. The company's board of directors also elected former Congressman and chairman of the House Rules Committee David Dreier to succeed Dearborn as chairman. In December 2019, Alden Global Capital, a New York City-based

, acquired a 32% stake in shares of Tribune Publishing Company. In February 2020, Dreier and Knight stepped down as chairman and CEO, respectively. Knight was replaced by the chief financial officer, Terry Jimene
Tribune Publishing CEO Tim Knight steps down in management shake-up
In 2020, during the

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, Tribune Publishing closed a number of its papers' newsrooms, including those of: the ''

'', '' The Morning Call'', the ''

'', the '' Carroll County Times'', the ''

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'' and the ''

''.

Acquisition by Alden

Tribune Publishing was acquired by

Alden Global Capital (Alden) for $635 million, giving its final approval on May 21, 2021, with the transaction officially closing on May 25, 2021, taking the company private. In December 2019, Alden acquired a 32% stake in shares of Tribune Publishing Company. Most of its stake was purchased from Michael Ferro at $13 a share. Considering what it paid for other tranches, the average price Alden paid for its shares of Tribune Publishing stock is around $12.75. It is offering $17.25/share. Tribune Publishing announced in February 2021 that it had agreed to be wholly acquired by Alden, and the final approval came in May. A key element in concluding the sale to Alden was the decision by Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owned 24% of the company's stock, to abstain from the May 21 shareholder vote. In early April 2021, Tribune Publishing announced that it has entered into serious discussions with an alternative pair of suitors for an amount higher than its deal with Alden. The new bidders were Stewart W. Bainum Jr. and Hansjörg Wyss. This deal would have amounted to an overall bid of $680 million, or $18.50/share, in contrast to the $635 million offer from Alden. The Bainum/Wyss acquisition offer came about when Bainum's offer to purchase the '' Baltimore Sun'' from Alden once it completed its acquisition of Tribune Publishing fell apart. The ''Sun'' deal fell apart on March 12 when Bainum became convinced that Alden was smuggling extra costs and fees into its deal with him that violated what he thought he had agreed to. He had agreed to purchase the ''Sun'' for $65 million, along with payments on a transitional-services agreement. The transitional-services agreement would have involved payments from the ''Sun'' to Alden for logistical aspects of running the business including its payroll and circulation departments and national and digital sales unit. Bainum believed he had negotiated a deal for two years of transitional services, with a 30-day exit clause. Instead, he was asked to commit to a five-year agreement with no possibility of an early exit. Bainum took umbrage and, instead, put together a competing bid to purchase the entirety of Tribune Publishing. Poynter.org observed that fears about the potential Alden acquisition may have obscured that staffing levels at Tribune Publishing's nine metropolitan newspapers fell 30.4% from 2019 to 2020. They write, "Employees and local readers are concerned that Alden would make deep cuts to Tribune if it bought the company. But it seems that's already happening." Hansjörg Wyss announced the third week of April that he was withdrawing from acquisition talks. Shortly thereafter, Tribune Publishing said that it was ending its conversations with Stewart W. Bainum Jr. because they believed that this possible deal could not reasonably be expected, in the absence of Wyss, to lead to a "superior proposal". Wyss had been expected to contribute $505 million to the transaction, with $100 million coming from Bainum. Bainum had until the end of the first week in May to submit a better proposal. Tribune Publishing's shareholders voted on a final deal on May 21. Bainum's difficulty in putting together a deal was said to be his inability to find a purchaser for the ''

'', which is the largest and most expensive of the metropolitan daily newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing. In the wake of the May 21 finalized sale, Bainum expressed continued interest in purchasing the ''Baltimore Sun'' and indicated that if he is unable to do so, he might invest a significant sum in creating a digital alternative. Immediately upon the close of the transaction, the ''New York Daily News'' was transferred by Alden to a separate company, Daily News Enterprises, also owned by Alden. On January 15, 2024, the company sold ''The Baltimore Sun'' to David D. Smith, executive chairman of

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. The purchase price was not immediately disclosed. In February 2024, Tribune Publishing announced it will layoff about 200 employees from the Freedom Center printing plant in Chicago. The plant will close and be demolished as the property was sold to be used as the site of a casino. Printing operations will be moved to the Paddock Printing Center in Schaumburg, which was acquired by a subsidiary of Alden in May 2023.

Publications owned

Current

Newspapers

* ''

'' (Chicago, Illinois) ** '' Daily Southtown'' (Chicago, Illinois) ** '' Post-Tribune'' ( Merrillville, Indiana) ** '' Naperville Sun'' (

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) ** ''Elgin Courier-News'' (

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) ** ''The Beacon-News'' (

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) ** '' Lake County News-Sun'' (

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) ** '' Pioneer Press'' *** ''Barrington Courier-Review'' *** ''Buffalo Grove Countryside'' *** ''Deerfield Review'' *** ''The Doings Clarendon Hills'' *** ''The Doings Hinsdale'' *** ''The Doings La Grange'' *** ''The Doings Oak Brook'' *** ''The Doings Weekly'' *** ''The Doings Western Springs'' *** ''Elm Leaves'' *** ''Evanston Review'' *** ''Forest Leaves'' *** ''Franklin Park Herald Journal'' *** ''Glencoe News'' *** ''Glenview Announcements'' *** ''Highland Park News'' *** ''Lake Forester'' *** ''Lake Zurich Courier'' *** ''Libertyville Review'' *** ''Lincolnshire Review'' *** ''Lincolnwood Review'' *** ''Morton Grove Champion'' *** ''Mundelein Review'' *** ''Niles Herald-Spectator'' *** ''Norridge Harwood Heights News'' *** ''Northbrook Star'' *** ''Oak Leaves'' *** ''Park Ridge Herald Advocate'' *** ''Skokie Review'' *** ''Vernon Hills Review'' *** ''Wilmette Life'' *** ''Winnetka Talk'' * '' Sun Sentinel'' (

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, Florida) ** ''Boca Times'' (

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; Highland Beach, Florida) ** '' El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida'' (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) ** ''Florida Jewish Journal'' ** ''Delray Sun'' ( Delray Beach, Florida; Gulf Stream, Florida) ** ''Gateway Gazette'' ( Boynton Beach, Florida; Lantana, Florida; Hypoluxo, Florida; Atlantis, Florida; South Palm Beach, Florida; Ocean Ridge, Florida; Manalapan, Florida; Briny Breezes, Florida) ** ''Glades Gazette'' ( Miramar, Florida;

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; Weston, Florida; Southwest Ranches, Florida) ** ''Pier Review'' (

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;

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; Lighthouse Point, Florida; Hillsboro Beach, Florida) ** ''Riverside Times'' (

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; Oakland Park, Florida; Wilton Manors, Florida; Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida; Sea Ranch Lakes, Florida) ** ''Sawgrass Sun'' ( Plantation, Florida;

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; Lauderhill, Florida; Tamarac, Florida; North Lauderdale, Florida; Lauderdale Lakes, Florida) ** ''The Forum'' ( Coral Springs, Florida; Coconut Creek, Florida;

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; North Lauderdale, Florida;

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) ** ''The Trailblazer'' ( Davie, Florida; Cooper City, Florida; Southwest Ranches, Florida) ** ''The Villager'' ( Wellington, Florida; Royal Palm Beach, Florida; Greenacres, Florida; Loxahatchee Groves, Florida; Westlake, Florida; The Acreage, Florida) ** ''West Boca Times'' ( West Boca Raton, Florida) * ''

'' (

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) ** '' El Sentinel'' (Orlando, Florida) * ''

'' (

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) ** '' Inside Business'' (

) **
AltDaily
' (Norfolk, Virginia) * '' The Hartford Courant'' (

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) **'' ReminderNews'' * '' The Morning Call'' (

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) * '' Daily Press'' (

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) ** '' The Virginia Gazette'' (

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) ** ''The Tidewater Review''

Commuter tabloids

* ''Tribune News Service''

Magazines

* ''City & Shore Magazine'' * '' Chicago Magazine'' * ''Hartford Magazine'' * ''Naperville Magazine'' * ''Polo Equestrian of the Palm Beaches'' * ''Prime Magazine'' * ''South Florida Parenting'' * ''Williamsburg Magazine''

Websites

* The Daily Meal * The Active Times * Military News *

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* Pro Soccer USA

Syndication agency

* Tribune Content Agency

Former

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