Baltimore Sun Presses Tribune CEO

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Dennis FitzSimons, chairman of the embattled Tribune Co. media giant, met employees of the Baltimore Sun yesterday and faced some tough questioning, the Washinton Post reports


Anxiety has pervaded the paper’s newsroom in recent weeks, as the situation at its parent company has deteriorated following a boardroom revolt. Pressed by three directors unhappy with the company’s slumping stock price, the Tribune board last week formed a committee to examine restructuring and divestiture options for the company’s 11 newspapers and 26 television stations.


FitzSimons met with the staff for about 90 minutes yesterday, spending about an hour answering questions, according to Sun staff members who attended the meeting but spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.


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