700 Layoffs at Gannett
In your threatening Tuesday media column: major layoffs at Gannett, Randy Michaels is back in radio, AOL eyes paid online content, rumors of OK! Magazine being sold, and Fortune poaches from the NYT.
Tribune CEO Randy Michaels Officially Out
As expected, horny Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels is gone. The following memo just went out to employees:
Tribune CEO to Employee: 'You'd Look Really Good on Your Knees'
As rumored and expected, Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels is said to be ready to step down this week, to be replaced with an executive committee. On Michaels' way out, we get to hear several more stories of his sexism!
Randy Michaels Fears What Tomorrow May Bring
Tribune CEO Randy Michaels: Still not fired or forced to resign! Not today, at least.
This CEO Will Pay to See Breasts (Or How Not to Run a Media Company)
What would you do if you were in charge of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune? Would you offer a waitress $100 to show her breasts? That's what Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels did. And it's not all.
Radio Boss Issues Bizarre Memo Banning 119 Words From the Air
Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels decided to micro-manage in the weirdest way possible — by banning words like 'authorities', 'diva' and 'manhunt' from the mouths of reporters or anchors at flagship news/talk station WGN-AM (720) in Chicago.
Newspaper Exec On Really Old Computer: "We Unplugged It And Nothing Stopped!"
Well if it isn't one of those little anecdotes could be seen as a neat metaphor for the entire business of finding neat metaphors to explain large global topics! Tribune Company COO (and ex-Clear Channel CEO) Randy Michaels recently told the company's bondholders on a conference call that he'd been exploring the…
