Shareholder Sues Tribune Directors, Chairman Over Spurned Gannett Bid

A Tribune Publishing investor sued the media company's directors and Chairman Michael Ferro for spurning an $864 million buyout offer from Gannett and seeking a cash infusion from a billionaire health-care entrepreneur.Tribune's board members are seeking to unfairly entrench themselves by taking steps to ward off the $15-a-share bid from Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, Capital Structures Realty Advisors said in a complaint made public Thursday in Delaware Chancery Court. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Tribune and its investors.The owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune rejected Gannett's second offer on May 23, calling it "clearly inadequate," even though it was 22% more than an earlier $12.25-a-share bid made public in April. Instead, the board adopted anti-takeover measures to wrongfully thwart Gannett's efforts, according to Capital Structures. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poppy Stimpson joins Pushkin as publicity director

Former Orion publicist Poppy Stimpson will join Pushkin Press as publicity director as long-time Pushkin publicist Tabitha Pelly heads to Doubleday later this month. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-06 00:58:47 UTC ]
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E. Jean Carroll, Who Says Trump Raped Her, Sues Him For Defamation

The advice columnist says his attempts to denigrate her have caused emotional stress and career consequences. Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2019-11-04 17:34:01 UTC ]
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S&S publishing director MacGregor to join Headline

Simon and Schuster publishing director Iain MacGregor is joining the Headline non-fiction team as publisher, it has been announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-31 03:42:30 UTC ]
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LVMH bids for Tiffany and Disney media review causes controversy: Monday Wake-Up Call

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[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-28 10:22:02 UTC ]
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PRH appoints Chantal Noel as group rights director

Chantal Noel has been appointed group rights director for Penguin Random House UK, after 11 years as rights director for Penguin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 20:57:31 UTC ]
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Is USA Today’s Print Edition Headed for the Sunset as GateHouse and Gannett Merge? Signs Point to Yes.

After a nearly 40-year run, USA Today and its digital sites are about to undergo a major restructuring that will Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-10-17 17:15:40 UTC ]
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Picador reveals raft of promotions with Doyle and Jonathan made editorial directors

Picador’s Kris Doyle and Sophie Jonathan have both been promoted to editorial director while Ansa Khan Khattak and Kishani Widyaratna are also stepping up at the Pan Mac imprint. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 07:15:08 UTC ]
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S&S UK promotes White to Scribner editorial director

Simon and Schuster UK has promoted Chris White to editorial director, Scribner.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-11 05:32:30 UTC ]
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Vicky Photiou joins Michael Joseph as marketing director

Penguin Random House Children’s head of marketing Vicky Photiou has joined Michael Joseph as marketing director, replacing Louise Jones who moves to Ebury. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-30 12:36:32 UTC ]
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M Is for Missing Sue Grafton

The last installment of the late author’s popular Alphabet series would have been due out soon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Bell calls for publishing to 'reflect all children' in bid to boost reading

At The Bookseller Children’s Conference today, Scholastic co-managing director Catherine Bell urged publishing to "reflect all children" and engage parents so they can read to their youngsters. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-23 02:34:03 UTC ]
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Orion appoints Eribo and Coleman as non-fiction publishing directors

Orion has announced HarperCollins’ Vicky Eribo and Jamie Coleman from PRH Children’s are joining the firm as publishing directors to help grow its commercial non-fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-15 22:42:35 UTC ]
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AWP Fires Executive Director, Who Alleges Discrimination

Chloe Schwenke, who served for one year as interim executive director of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs before being officially named executive director about six months ago, has been let go. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of Virginia Sues CBS for Defamation, Seeking $400 Million

He filed the lawsuit in response to interviews on “CBS This Morning” with two women who accused him of sexual misconduct. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-09-12 20:59:59 UTC ]
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Hackers targeted Curtis Brown for months in bid to get hold of The Testaments manuscript

Margaret Atwood’s literary agent Karolina Sutton of Curtis Brown has revealed how the agency was besieged by a “carefully orchestrated” campaign by cyber criminals attempting to obtain The Testaments manuscript which “carried on daily for months”.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-06 04:22:04 UTC ]
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Fleet made Emerald technology director

Alice Fleet has been promoted to the role of technology director for Emerald Publishing, with a seat on the board. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-05 20:46:09 UTC ]
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Anne Meadows made editorial director at Granta

Granta’s senior commissioning editor Anne Meadows has been promoted to editorial director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Jenny Fry promoted to Canongate's commercial director

Canongate’s Jenny Fry has been promoted to commercial director as she takes on responsibility for sales along with her communications remit. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Geoffrey Rush loses bid to prevent News Corp from repeating allegations

Application for injunction preventing the publisher from repeating meanings in defamatory material dismissedActor Geoffrey Rush, who was awarded $2.9m in his defamation case against Nationwide News, has lost his bid to prevent the newspaper publisher from repeating the substance of its... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-08-28 07:48:07 UTC ]
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Publishers sue Amazon's Audible over speech-to-text feature

Major US publishers have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's audiobook company Audible in a row over a new speech-to-text feature which they say is a violation of copyright law.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-26 15:42:06 UTC ]
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