Samuel Zell
Summary
Samuel "Sam" Zell (born September 1941) is a U.S. real estate entrepreneur. He is co-founder and Chairman of Equity Group Investments, a private investment firm. Zell was born in Chicago in 1941 to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland who fled the country just before the Nazi invasion in 1939. Shortly after moving from Seattle to Chicago, Zell's father Bernard changed the family name from Zielonka to Zell. He received his BA (1963) from the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He also received his JD (1966) from the University of Michigan Law School.Zell, with Robert H.
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Eli Broad joins former politician’s bid for L.A. Times
The Hollywood Reporter | LA Weekly The billionaire Eli Broad will join former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner in a bid for either the Los Angeles Times or all the Tribune Co. ’s newspapers, Paul Bond reports in The Hollywood … Read more.
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Hartford Courant says new site does not have a paywall
Connecticut Newsroom | LA Observed | New Haven Register The Hartford Courant has a new site called CourantPlus. Matt DeRienzo, group editor of Journal Register Company’s Connecticut papers, calls it a paywall. Print subscribers, he reports, received a … Read more.
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Audit Notes: mixed signals, Sam Zell's phony equity, power shift
Deflation has set in in the Seattle area, according to a misleading Seattle Times story: This is awfully confusing. The paper's lead and headline both say that prices fell 1. 4 percent in December from October. But the second paragraph tells us that prices were up 1. 4 percent from a year ago. Reporters, if you've got month-to-month.
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Does L.A. Times qualify as a charity case?
Of all the troubled news organizations in all the land, the Ford Foundation recently gave the Los Angeles Times $1 million to hire four reporters, even though the newspaper’s parent company amassed nearly $2. 4 billion in cash during its 3½-year bankruptcy. While there can be no doubt that the foundation has the best of intentions – or that the Times will endeavor to make good journalistic.
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Tribune on verge of bankruptcy deal
The Tribune Company, America's second-largest newspaper publisher, looks as if it is about to emerge from bankruptcy after three years.
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The newsonomics of trust, news trusts, and Murdoch trustworthiness
Trust. It’s the foundation of the news business. We’d like to believe that readers trust us to deliver accurate and fair-minded news. We’d like to believe that we can trust each other in the press to be honorable. Trustworthiness, or integrity, is one of the values we’ve most sought as we hire and promote.
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Billionaire Eli Broad still wants to buy the LA Times
Billionaire Eli Broad speculates LA Times will be for sale after Tribune bankruptcy and he’d still like to buy it; Broad lost Tribune bid to Sam Zell five years ago.
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Zell Ranks Last Among Tribune Creditors
Samuel Zell, the real-estate mogul behind the disastrous leveraged buyout that plunged Tribune Co. into bankruptcy, came out the biggest loser in an inter-creditor fight over expected payouts from the Chapter 11 proceeding. Judge Kevin Carey of the. . .
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Morning media roundup: ‘You get to ask the questions you want, I get to give the answers I want’
“The ultimate tragedy would be if others failed to follow in her footsteps to report on the savagery of war with such an honest, unflinching gaze,” Ian Birrell writes in the Daily Mail about Marie Colvin (EXCELLENT pic of… Read more.
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Square Feet: Sam Zell Bids for Archstone, an Apartment Landlord
The bankruptcy of the Tribune Company has not tarnished Samuel Zell’s reputation in real estate; he is now bidding for a stake in a huge apartment landlord, Archstone.
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