Journalism professors, themselves media veterans, aren't mincing words about the Tribune Co.'s recently announced plans to cut employees and news content across its 12 newspapers.
Referring to a recent conference call where Tribune CEO Sam Zell and COO Randy Michaels reportedly promised to eliminate about 500 pages of news per week across its newspapers, as well as an unknown number of jobs, Judy Muller, associate professor of journalism at the University of Southern California and former TV correspondent, says, "I ...