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Tribune Names Ira Goldstone Technology
Coordinator
Responsible for coordinating
cross-divisional technology projects for Tribune Company
CHICAGO, January 6, 2003 --
Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB)
today named Ira Goldstone technology coordinator for Tribune
Company as well as vice president/chief technology officer
for Tribune Broadcasting Company. In this new role, Goldstone
will continue to oversee engineering and technology for the
broadcasting group while coordinating projects involving common
technologies across all of Tribune.
Goldstone will oversee activities among Tribune’s broadcasting,
publishing and interactive businesses that require system
interoperability and content exchange. He will facilitate
development plans to ensure a consistent high-level view of
technology, and identify areas of strategic importance that
require special focus.
" Ira’s years of experience in managing rapidly
changing technology for our broadcast group makes him an excellent
choice to coordinate projects companywide," said Dennis
FitzSimons, Tribune president and chief executive officer.
"The goal is to increase effectiveness and economies
of scale available to the entire company."
Goldstone will work closely with Darko Dejanovic,
vice president/CTO for Tribune Publishing and Chicago Tribune
Company, and Mike Plonski, vice president/CTO of Tribune Interactive
and vice president/Tribune Information Systems.
"As the pace of technological change continues
to accelerate, we will require systems that enable us to store
and access news and information efficiently, whether it’s
for print, television or on-line use," said Goldstone.
"It’s exciting that Tribune has given me an expanded
role in helping to shape this vision for the future."
Previously, Goldstone was Tribune Broadcasting
vice president/engineering and technology. In addition to
being responsible for group-wide digital conversion, he represents
the company on a variety of industry committees dealing with
standards tied to new technologies. From 1983 to 1994, Goldstone
was director/broadcast operations and engineering at KTLA-TV,
Los Angeles. Before joining KTLA, he was vice president/corporate
engineering for Standard Communications, Salt Lake City, and
director/technical services at WCVB-TV, Boston, from 1972
to 1981.
Born in Westchester, N.Y., July 6, 1949, Goldstone
holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from
Emerson College, where he currently sits on the Board of Overseers.
He is a Fellow in the SMPTE organization and a member of the
Society of Television Engineers. In addition, he is a member
of the board of the Advanced Television Systems Committee
and chairs the Applications Sub-Committee.
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TRIBUNE (NYSE:
TRB) is one of the country’s premier media companies,
operating businesses in publishing, broadcasting and on the
Internet. It reaches more than 80 percent of U.S. households,
and is the only media company with newspapers, television
stations and Web sites in the nation’s top three markets.
In publishing, Tribune operates 12 market-leading daily newspapers
such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Newsday
plus a wide range of targeted publications including Spanish-language
newspapers. In broadcasting, Tribune properties include 24
television stations and Superstation WGN on national cable.
The acquisition of two additional stations, KPLR-TV, St. Louis,
and KWPB-TV, Portland, Ore., will be completed in early 2003,
pending regulatory approvals. These publishing and broadcasting
interests are complemented by high-traffic news and information
Web sites in 18 of the nation’s top 30 markets.
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