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Sam Zell, chairman of Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co., told CNBC on Wednesday that he didn't know when the media company will emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection but "it's reasonable to assume that it will come out probably in the first half of this year."

Media heavyweights are supporting an effort to toss out a subpoena for notes and grades of Northwestern University journalism students, their professor and an investigator in the case of a Harvey man the students believe was wrongfully convicted of killing a security guard.

While the recession took a toll on shopping centers and strip malls across the country, the economic downturn has left the Internet poised to enter 2010 as a larger force...

Signaling that infighting among creditors is bogging down reorganization efforts, Tribune Co. on Friday asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware to give its management team until March 31 to craft a plan to exit Chapter 11 without interference from other parties.

Citing the economic squeeze that has both reduced its assets and created greater funding needs elsewhere, the Chicago Community Trust said Thursday it is ending its support for the multimedia "Chicago Matters" program after 19 years.

Tribune said Tuesday that it plans to pay back $170 million of the $225 million in debtor-in-possession financing it took out to help pay for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding it entered in December.

In the ongoing struggle between the White House and the FOX News Channel, the Obama administration's direct rebuttal of what FOX's Glenn Beck and a guest have had to say this week about the administration's hand in Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games may seem like a footnote.

Harold Richman bridged the worlds of academia and public policy as a professor at the University of Chicago and as founding director of an influential child welfare research center.

A new report from Chicago's from the Community Media Workshop offers an inventory and assessment of area online news sites. The premise was that there has been and continues to be enough talk about the challenges of funding journalism going forward.

In Chicago, NBC-owned WMAQ-Ch. 5, Fox-owned WFLD-Ch. 32, CBS-owned WBBM-Ch. 2 and WGN-Ch. 9, which is owned by Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co., announced Monday that they have joined forces to establish an independently run local news service that will share newsgathering resources to provide pool coverage of non-exclusive events.