USA Today Owner Wants to Buy Tribune Publishing

[strannik01]

It seems like not a month passes without some major, potentially status-quo altering Chicagoland media news breaking.

On Monday morning, we found out that Gannett, owner of USA Today and about a hundred newspapers in small and medium-sized towns throughout United States (and almost 300 newspapers in United Kingdom), wanted to buy Tribune

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[kaffy_r]

Thanks for the good wishes. Since this happened on the heels of my return from a union meeting in Cleveland, where Gannett was described by many of its unionized employees as one of the three Big Bads in American journalism (the other two being Gatehouse and Digital First Media), you can imagine how my Monday felt. And yes, your addendum is familiar to me for one reason; Trib employees got a slightly amended version of the Trib's response to Gannett in their inboxes this morning.

Good times. Good, good times.

[strannik01]

I've read plenty about Gatehouse's hostility toward unions, and I heard a few things about Digital First, but I didn't realize Gannett was just as bad. Though I can't say I'm surprised #THeMoreYouKnow.

Oh, and thank you for linking to my post.

ETA: Was the version of the letter you guys got as eyeroll-worthy as the one they sent to Gannett?

[kaffy_r]

The funny thing was that the version we got was actually more measured, since it generally said "we're not going to outline all the misstatements" and focused more on what the board thought the process of decision making would, or should, be.