The Los Angeles Times came weather-wrapped Thursday morning. There was more plastic than paper, or so it seemed. There wasn’t even enough paper, apparently, to run a proper obituary for Chuck Philips, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former Times reporter who died last month.
Details about Chuck’s passing have been sparse — he is said to have requested no postmortem attention. But the Times did manage to print a brief, paid death notice for three days running. Go figure.
Chuck, as is well known in these parts, lost his job after succumbing to a hoax in his long quest to untangle the deadly rap music wars. He later said that a humiliating Page 1 apology and retraction in the Times was overblown and inaccurate. Be that as it may, he never lost the love and respect of colleagues, including myself, who found him a joy to know.
Dave Robb. Cari Beauchamp. Chuck Philips.
Details about Chuck’s passing have been sparse — he is said to have requested no postmortem attention. But the Times did manage to print a brief, paid death notice for three days running. Go figure.
Chuck, as is well known in these parts, lost his job after succumbing to a hoax in his long quest to untangle the deadly rap music wars. He later said that a humiliating Page 1 apology and retraction in the Times was overblown and inaccurate. Be that as it may, he never lost the love and respect of colleagues, including myself, who found him a joy to know.
Dave Robb. Cari Beauchamp. Chuck Philips.
- 2/2/2024
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
A little more than two years after Tribune Publishing Co. now infamously changed its name to the Wall Street collective head-scratcher tronc, Inc., the company is officially changing its name back. The Chicago-based publishing company will resume trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol Tpco, replacing Trnc, on October 10.
It’s been a wild ride for the company soon to be formerly known as tronc (that’s with a lower-case “t”) since June 2, 2016, when new then-new chairman Michael Ferro made the announcement that Tribune would be known as tronc — short for “Tribune online content,” apparently to differentiate it from a company that owned newspapers.
Twitter was unkind, as were branding experts. “It hit all of the wrong things on what would create an impactful new name,” Matthew Quint, director of the Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership, told Deadline at the time. “It’s created something that is laughable.
It’s been a wild ride for the company soon to be formerly known as tronc (that’s with a lower-case “t”) since June 2, 2016, when new then-new chairman Michael Ferro made the announcement that Tribune would be known as tronc — short for “Tribune online content,” apparently to differentiate it from a company that owned newspapers.
Twitter was unkind, as were branding experts. “It hit all of the wrong things on what would create an impactful new name,” Matthew Quint, director of the Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership, told Deadline at the time. “It’s created something that is laughable.
- 10/4/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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