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Tribune Publishing shareholders approve a deal for the sale of nine newspapers, including the "Chicago Tribune", "The Baltimore Sun", and the "New York Daily News", to Alden Global Capital. Alden owns the "Boston Herald", "The Denver Post", and "The San Jose Mercury News" through its Digital First Media chain. With Tribune, Alden will be the second-largest newspaper company in the United States, after Gannett.
2021-05-23

GDPR rules come into effect in the European Union. Several U.S. news sites are subsequently taken offline in the United Kingdom and Europe, including the "Los Angeles Times", "Chicago Tribune" and Lee Enterprises newspapers.
2018-05-25

The "New York Daily News" and ProPublica win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on nuisance abatement by police targeting minorities.
2017-04-10

The Trump White House bars "The New York Times", CNN, the "Los Angeles Times", the "New York Daily News", "The Hill", the "Daily Mail", BBC, Politico, and BuzzFeed from a Friday press "gaggle." Generally conservative, mostly new, outlets were permitted entry, such as Breitbart News, One America News Network, and "The Washington Times". Also allowed in were ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, "The Wall Street Journal", Bloomberg News, and Fox News. "Time" magazine and the Associated Press could have attended but chose not to in protest. The White House Correspondents’ Association, which represents the press corps, quickly rebuked the White House’s actions. [http:--bigstory.ap.org-article-9d04bb7ccf60468987c582b4ee9c7e24-white-house-bars-major-news-outlets-media-gaggle (AP)] [https:--www.reuters.com-article-us-usa-trump-media-idUSKBN1632JG?il=0 (Reuters)] [http:--www.nbcnews.com-politics-white-house-white-house-excludes-several-outlets-press-gaggle-n725366 (NBC News)] [https:--www.nytimes.com-2017-02-24-us-politics-white-house-sean-spicer-briefing.html?_r=0 ("The New York Times")] [http:--www.msn.com-en-us-news-politics-media-slams-limited-wh-press-access-ar-AAnksZB?ocid=edgsp ("The Hill" via MSN.Com)] date=August 2019
2017-02-24

In the United States, Gannett Company, Inc., announces that two weeks ago it made an unsolicited, $815 million takeover bid for the Tribune Publishing Company, whose holdings include a number of major newspapers, such as the "Chicago Tribune" and the "Los Angeles Times". Gannett, the publisher of the national American daily "USA Today" as well as 107 daily newspapers, made the offer public since Tribune had not yet responded. Last month, Tribune Publishing's winning bid for the "Orange County Register" was blocked by the U.S. Justice Department because of an antitrust challenge.
2016-04-25

The "Los Angeles Times" reports that close to 500,000 California voters, who wanted to register as an Independent but checked the American Independent Party box instead, may be ineligible to vote in the state's Democratic and Republican primaries.
2016-04-17

Tribune Publishing, an American company whose Southern California media holdings include the "Los Angeles Times" and "The San Diego Union-Tribune", wins an auction for bankrupt newspapers, "Orange County Register", published in Santa Ana, and "The Press-Enterprise", headquartered in Riverside, for $56 million, subject to judicial approval. A federal bankruptcy court hearing is scheduled for Monday. The U.S. Justice Department has warned that a Tribune purchase could violate antitrust laws.
2016-03-17

Senior U.S. officials condemn graphic photos depicting their troops posing with the mangled corpses of suspected Afghan suicide bombers on at least two separate occasions months apart. The "Los Angeles Times" defends its publication of the photos after being warned against the move by the U.S. military.
2012-04-18

At least 40 people were shot over the weekend across Chicago, with seven of them slain, Chicago Tribune reported.
2010-06-20

American media report that the attacker who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian triple agent.
2010-01-4