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Old Posted Aug 11, 2018, 4:59 AM
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Originally Posted by maru2501 View Post
wrong.

Tribune split into Tribune Media and Tribune Publishing, which holds the newspaper (and which became Tronc. )

Tribune Media, the broadcast stuff, took all the real estate, and THEY sold the tower to Golub. The newspaper began paying class A office rates for a building they had previously owned. Golub wanted it to go condo and basically forced it.

The newspaper got nothing except a court fight over the name that Golub wanted to keep up there for marketing and cache, instead of, you know, coming up with a way to keep the paper there
Oof. Looks like print media isn't the way to go, you guys.

Let's just be happy they aren't knocking it down and call it a draw, huh?
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