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The Deal From Hell, July 2011
Hardcover

THE DEAL FROM HELL
By: James O'Shea

How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers

PublicAffairs
July 2011
On Sale: June 28, 2011
416 pages
ISBN: 1586487914
EAN: 9781586487911
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal From Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions.

The Deal From Hell is a riveting narrative that chronicles how news industry executives and editors—convinced they were acting in the best interests of their publications—made a series of flawed decisions that endangered journalistic credibility and drove the newspapers, already confronting a perfect storm of political, technological, economic, and social turmoil, to the brink of extinction.

Media Buzz

Marketplace - PRI - July 25, 2011
Diane Rehm Show - NPR - July 19, 2011