Tuesday, February 23, 2016

CEO Jack Griffin is out at Tribune

POLITICO
By Ken Doctor 12:25 a.m. | Feb. 23, 2016
Tribune Publishing has parted ways with its CEO Jack Griffin, I’ve learned. In a fast-moving turn of events, unusually quick by corporate standards, newly minted Tribune Publishing board chairman Michael Ferro has orchestrated Griffin’s ouster — and directed the choice of his successor.
The company has named Justin Dearborn its new CEO.


With CEO Jack Griffin gone, the stage is set to break up Tribune Publishing
POYNTER
By Rick Edmonds February 23, 2016



Margaret Sullivan Took The New York Times Public Editor Role Into The Digital Age 
HUFFINGTON POST
She's ending her four-year term early, taking her expertise to The Washington Post where she’ll be a media columnist.

02/22/2016 12:03 pm ET | Updated 1 day ago
NEW YORK -- New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan will join The Washington Post later this year as a media columnist, ending a nearly four-year run as the paper's in-house watchdog.



How Leslie Moonves continues to guide CBS to the top of the TV industry 
LA Times
by Contact Reporter  Feb 23, 2016
Tradition matters to Moonves, who joined CBS in 1995 and on Feb. 3 was elected chairman of the company, replacing the ailing Sumner Redstone. But the 66-year-old Long Island native has restored CBS' vaunted place in the industry by adapting it to a rapidly changing media landscape, in which viewers have more choice and control over how they watch television. This month, CBS posted its best quarterly earnings in its history, helped by having shows that are not just prime-time hits but also assets that can generate revenue from around the world and online.






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