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"Orlando is a proving ground for Sam Zell's effort to reinvent
floundering Tribune Co., owner of a string of television stations and
newspapers, including the Sentinel, the Chicago Tribune and
the Los Angeles Times." [WSJ]

At left is the top of an interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez filed by Charlotte Hall, Editor of the Orlando Sentinel and President of the American Society Of Newspaper Editors. Other editors who recently accompanied Hall to Venezuela, like Marty Baron of the Boston Globe and Margaret Sullivan of the …