Q&A: James O’Shea James O’Shea, former editor at the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times , was close to the center of the successive storms at the Tribune company, from its ill-fated 2000 merger with newspaper chain Times Mirror —then owner of the LA Times and Baltimore Sun —to the disastrous 2007 takeover by a group of investors led by Sam Zell, leading to the company’s eventual bankruptcy.
July 24, 2013 - Columbia Journalism Review