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The creditors committee in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Freedom Communications will be allowed to seek an alternative to the company's reorganization plan, a Delaware judge has ruled.
Freedom Communications said Wednesday that it has finalized an agreement to sell the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa to a company that owns free papers in Tucson, Ariz., and Telluride, Colo.
Freedom Communications, owner of The Orange County Register in California and other media properties, is seeking approval of a $300,000 bonus plan for its chief financial officer.
The publisher of the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa said Friday that a buyer has made an offer that would keep the paper and its Web site in business.
The East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa will close on Dec. 31, less than a year after embarking on an experiment to focus more on digital content and reduce the number of days it went to print.
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has declined to rule immediately in a dispute over document production in the Chapter 11 case of Freedom Communications Holdings Inc.
Freedom Communications is asking a bankruptcy judge to allow it to hire a broker to pursue the sale of its Phoenix-area publications, including the East Valley Tribune.
Some of the major media properties owned by Freedom Communications:
An attorney for Freedom Communications told a federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday that the newspaper publisher hopes to speed through its Chapter 11 reorganization in just a few months.
Freedom Communications Inc., the owner of the Orange County Register, is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week, according to a published report.
Newspaper and TV station owner Freedom Communications Inc. named an interim CEO Wednesday, tapping the former publisher of The Dallas Morning News and former chairman of the board of The Associated Press.
Playboy Enterprises Inc. says it has hired Freedom Communications Inc. Chief Executive Scott N. Flanders to lead the company.
In a Dec. 9 story about newspaper companies that might follow Tribune Co. into bankruptcy, The Associated Press erroneously reported that analyst Mike Simonton at Fitch Ratings said bankers might hold out for more concessions when renegotiating debt agreements with such companies as Freedom Communications Inc. and Media General Inc.
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