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After 168 years in publishing, the storied media operation once known as Tribune Media Company will now be known as Tronc. Having recently fended off a hostile takeover from Gannett, the publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times today united under a proud new banner — one that looks similar to, but is legally…
Just when you thought the Gannett vs. Tribune Publishing story couldn’t get any weirder, it does exactly that. Tribune, which has been fighting off an unwanted takeover bid from Gannett for weeks now, announced late on Thursday that it has changed its name to tronc (all lower case) and is moving its stock listing from…
Rebranding with Content Curation and Visualization Focus to Benefit 60 Million Digital Users tronc to Begin Trading on Nasdaq on June 20 CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Tribune Publishing Co. (NYSE:TPUB) today announced that the Company will change its name to tronc, Inc., a content curation and monetization company focused on creating and distributing premium, verified content across…
The Perks Are Great. Just Don’t Ask Us What We Do. 50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s tech scene. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff. The company seemed like the perfect place for Tyler. After working in the agency world, Tyler (not his real name) wanted…
It may seem silly, but this is actually a major problem with the comics industry and comics media. Source: Valnet Inc. Presents: Comic Book Resources Comics journalism is a strange field. Despite all sorts of serious shit going down in the industry, comics news sites seem most excited when they get the opportunity to publish…
The suit from Capital Structures Realty Advisors may be the first of many By Alex Weprin 06/02/16 11:00 AM EDT As it prepares to vote on its board of directors in a few hours, Tribune Publishing now faces its first lawsuit from a shareholder over its decision to engage in sale talks with Gannett. Capital…
It’s apparently become a little easier to access Forbes content if you have an adblocker on. Previously — as recently as last week — Forbes was requiring users to turn off their adblockers or log into Forbes with a Google or Facebook account, which meant turning over personal data like email addresses and contacts. In…
Spoiler alert: Ad blocking is a serious problem; it’s just a little unclear exactly how big of one. Take Britain. If you look at the IAB’s figures, which it conducted with YouGov, 22 percent of U.K. adults are blocking ads. Wait a minute, market research company GlobalWebIndex says the figure is 37 percent. According to Pagefair…
Employment trends in newspaper publishing and other media, 1990–2016 June 02, 2016 Few industries have been affected by the digital or information age as much as newspapers and other traditional publishing industries (books, magazines, etc.). In June 1990, there were nearly 458,000 people employed in the newspaper publishing industry; by March 2016, that figure…
Maybe you weren’t in the mood to hear about Bacon Critic on Twitter all day, but that’s too bad for you, because on Wednesday, Time Inc. launched Extra Crispy, a breakfast-focused vertical run out of its Brooklyn-based “creative lab” The Foundry. And yes, Extra Crispy is hiring a bacon critic — or, to be way…