Skip to content
  • Home
  • Journalists
    • Headlines
  • Community
    • Businesses
    • Jobs
    • Learning
    • Marketplace
  • Store
(@)

Sam Zell, 81, Tycoon Whose Big Newspaper Venture Went Bust, Dies

With a fortune made in real estate, he went into the media business in a landmark leveraged buyout of the Tribune Company in 2007. Bankruptcy ensued.

Robert D. McFadden
Author: Robert D. McFadden

Written by

Robert D. McFadden

in

Deaths (Obituaries), Equity Investments, Equity Office Properties Trust, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Newspapers, Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Tribune Publishing Company
←Scenes From Cannes: Vigilant Steve McQueen, Misguided Maïwenn
‘Butterfly Vision’ Review: A Ukrainian Soldier’s Lonely Struggle→

More posts

  • Protesters, leaders push back against DHS over Newark detention facility conditions

  • Goldman and Lander spar hard over Israel

  • Snowflake climbs after Q1 results top expectations, guidance gets a boost

  • Synopsys drops despite better than expected Q2 results, big boost to full-year guidance

About Us


Support Us

Trademark & Copyright 1998 – 2025 · MOSAEC

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube