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The Deal from Hell

How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers

James O'Shea

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English
Public Affairs
28 June 2011
In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In

The Deal From Hell , veteran

Tribune

and

Los Angeles Times

editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions.

The Deal From Hell

is a riveting narrative that chronicles how news industry executives and editors- convinced they were acting in the best interests of their publications- made a series of flawed decisions that endangered journalistic credibility and drove the newspapers, already confronting a perfect storm of political, technological, economic, and social turmoil, to the brink of extinction.

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Imprint:   Public Affairs
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 241mm,  Width: 162mm,  Spine: 34mm
Weight:   637g
ISBN:   9781586487911
ISBN 10:   1586487914
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Award-winning journalist Jim O'Shea is former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune and past editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times, the US's largest metropolitan daily. He is the founder and editor of the Chicago Newspaper Cooperative, and serves on the board of Creative Loafing, an alternative newspaper chain with publications in six U.S. cities.

Reviews for The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers

<p> Kirkus, June 1, 2011<br> Numerous books have covered endangered daily newspapers, but few relate the sad saga from the perspective of a top editor with investigative reporting experience... Given O'Shea's level of detail and candor, some journalism icons will almost surely lose respect within their field...A spirited, fascinating insider's account of a troubled realm. <p> New Statesman, January 7, 2011<br> This book is a passionate and heavily researched account of the case against the cyber-utopians. The Chicago Reader, Michael Miner, June 17, 2011<br> The insider's tale O'Shea tells is that of an epic business disaster, placed in the context of the whole industry driving itself off a cliff...I'm 50 pages in and riveted. I expect to stay that way The Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Sneed, June 19, 2011<br> Loaded with Tribune Tower mayhem and monkeyshines, bankruptcy testimony, sexual innuendo, triggered security alarms, and a hysterical Tribune terrace escapade involving


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