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Tribune Publishing Names Timothy Kennedy
Vice President/Strategy and Development
Succeeds Timothy
P. Knight who is named to Chicago Tribune post
CHICAGO, January 22, 2001 -- Timothy
R. Kennedy, vice president/development for Tribune Company,
has been named Tribune Publishing Company vice president/strategy
and development. Kennedy succeeds Timothy P. Knight, who today
was named Chicago Tribune vice president/strategic marketing,
development and finance.
"Tim has worked closely with the publishing
group for the past two years," said Jack W. Fuller, president
of Tribune Publishing. "He played a key role in the Times
Mirror transaction. Tim's keen understanding of publishing
and interactive businesses and his familiarity with the needs
and interests of the publishing group will be invaluable in
this new assignment."
In his current role, Kennedy is responsible
for strategic development activities and opportunities that
build Tribune’s publishing and interactive businesses.
Kennedy, 35, joined Tribune in 1994 as manager
of tax and was named manager of corporate finance in 1996.
He served as director/corporate finance and was named director/corporate
development in 1998. Kennedy was appointed Tribune Company
vice president/development in 2000. Prior to Tribune, Kennedy
worked eight years at Price Waterhouse, now PricewaterhouseCoopers.
He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting
from Western Michigan University and a master's degree in
management from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate
School of Management.
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TRIBUNE (NYSE:TRB)
is one of the country’s premier media companies, operating
businesses in broadcasting, publishing and on the Internet.
It reaches nearly 80 percent of U.S. households on a daily
basis, and is the only media company with television stations,
newspapers and Web sites in the nation's top three markets.
Tribune's annual revenues total $6 billion and the company
employs more than 24,000 people nationwide.
Tribune Publishing is the leading U.S.
major-market newspaper group, with the third-largest circulation.
The company comprises 11 market-leading newspapers: the Los
Angeles Times; Chicago Tribune; Newsday, serving Nassau and
Suffolk counties on Long Island, N.Y., and the borough of
Queens, N.Y.; The Baltimore Sun; South Florida Sun-Sentinel;
Orlando Sentinel; The Hartford Courant; The Morning Call,
serving Eastern Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley; Daily Press,
serving the Virginia Peninsula; The (Stamford) Advocate and
Greenwich Time, both serving Connecticut's Fairfield County.
Tribune Media Services is a leading provider of entertainment
listings and syndicated news and information to print and
electronic media. Tribune Publishing also is involved in video
and audio publishing initiatives, including two 24-hour cable
news channels: CLTV News in Chicago and Central Florida News
13 (News 13), a partnership with Time Warner Communications
in Orlando.
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