▰ Sources. Tribune Publishing. American publishing company Incorporated in 1847 with the founding of the Chicago Tribune, Tribune Publishing operated as a division of the Tribune Company, a Chicago-based multimedia conglomerate, until it was spun off into a separate public company in August 2014. On June 20, 2016, the company adopted the name tronc, short for "Tribune online content".[3] Its principal shareholder after the spin-off, with a 25.5% stake,[4] was the American business magnate Michael W.
Ferro, Jr. History[edit] Early history[edit] Medill's two grandsons, cousins Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, assumed leadership of the company in 1911. Growth and acquisitions[edit] Later in the decade, Tribune launched daily newspapers targeting urban commuters, including the Chicago Tribune's RedEye edition in 2002, followed by an investment in AM New York one year later. Takeover by Sam Zell and bankruptcy[edit] Spin-off of publishing unit[edit] Post spin-off[edit] tronc era[edit] Publications owned[edit]
Chicago Tribune. Major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States History[edit] Beginnings[edit] Medill editorship[edit] An 1870 advertisement for Chicago Tribune subscriptions The lead editorial in the first issue the Chicago Tribune published after the Great Chicago Fire In 1861, the Tribune published new lyrics by William W. Years of McCormick[edit] In 1919, Patterson left the Tribune and moved to New York to launch his own newspaper, the New York Daily News.[16] In a renewed circulation war with Hearst's Herald-Examiner, McCormick and Hearst ran rival lotteries in 1922. The newspaper sponsored a pioneering attempt at Arctic aviation in 1929, an attempted round-trip to Europe across Greenland and Iceland in a Sikorsky amphibious aircraft.[17] But, the aircraft was destroyed by ice on July 15, 1929, near Ungava Bay at the tip of Labrador, Canada.
One of the great scoops in Tribune history came when it obtained the text of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. The Watergate years[edit] The Tribune (Punjab) The Tribune: Punjab. Sarbjit Dhaliwal Tribune News Service Chandigarh, September 28 Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has favoured maximising the internal use of three rivers, the Indus, Jhelum and the Chenab, that are part of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, the Punjab Government’s Irrigation Department engineers have showed their concern over the flow of the Ravi waters to Pakistan downstream Madhopur Headworks in Pathankot district. They want that the work on the Shahpur Kandi dam project be resumed to stop the flow of water to Pakistan, besides bringing more area under irrigation in Jammu region and enhancing the irrigation capacity in Punjab.
The Ravi water was to be pooled at the proposed balancing reservoir by raising the dam with an estimated cost of Rs 800 crore at Shahpur Kandi, about 11 km downstream the Ranjit Sagar dam. Half of this reservoir was to be made in Punjab territory and the other part in Jammu and Kashmir.