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LA Times, A.H. Belo To Lay Off Hundreds of Newspaper Staff

Authored by Jay Baage on January 30, 2009 - 11:34am.

Los Angeles - Tribune Co.'s L.A. Times will cut 300 jobs, according to an internal memo sent out of Friday. Newspaper publisher A.H. Belo Corp. also announced on Friday it will lay off 500 workers, or about 14 percent of its work force at The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal in Rhode Island, The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., and The Denton Record-Chronicle in Texas.

Mark Cuban, Christine Hefner Lead List of Possible Chicago Cubs Acquirers

Authored by Scott Goldberg on April 2, 2007 - 10:41am.

Rich Walden, head of sports financing for JP Morgan Chase, said on CNBC today that Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and HDNet, and Christine Hefner, chairman and CEO of Playboy, are among a short list of potential acquirers of the Chicago Cubs. The Tribune Co. has said it will sell the Cubs at the end of the year. Early estimates place a $600 million price tag on the organization.