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Tribune Names David Hiller Senior Vice
President
Tribune Interactive
president expands role
CHICAGO, February 27, 2003 --
Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB)
today announced that David Hiller, Tribune Interactive president,
has been appointed senior vice president/publishing effective
immediately. In this new position, he will be responsible
for Tribune Classified Services, Tribune Media Services, The
Hartford Courant and CLTV, and will continue to oversee
Tribune Interactive.
"David has done an outstanding job leading
Tribune Interactive to become an important and profitable
part of Tribune’s multimedia strategy," said Dennis
FitzSimons, Tribune president and chief executive officer.
"Working with our newspapers and television stations,
Tribune Interactive developed a successful business model
that leverages all of Tribune’s media assets, including
greater content sharing, cross-promotion and multimedia sales.
David will use that same energy and vision as he works more
closely with our publishing businesses."
In his new role, Hiller will oversee Tribune
Classified Services, the division that manages the company’s
print and online classified business; Tribune Media Services,
a leading domestic and international provider of information
and entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air
media; The Hartford Courant, the oldest continuously
published newspaper in the nation and the largest daily newspaper
in Connecticut; and CLTV, the Chicago area’s only 24-hour
cable news station. He will report to Jack Fuller, Tribune
Publishing president.
"David’s creativity charted a new
course in the interactive medium," said Fuller. "We
expect him to use all his talents on this wider canvas, including
print and cable television, as well as online. This chance
to work in all media is an excellent next step for David in
an already distinguished and varied career at Tribune."
The expansion of Hiller’s responsibilities
will not impact how Tribune Interactive operates. A central
team in Chicago will continue to lead in areas of technology,
finance, metrics, business development/marketing and shared
content. The local interactive operations in Tribune’s
newspaper and television markets will continue to operate
in close integration with those print and broadcasting businesses.
"I look forward to working with these
great publishing businesses," said Hiller. "All
of them do what Tribune does best -- deliver world-class content
and marketing solutions across multiple media."
Hiller was appointed president of Tribune
Interactive in May 2000. Since then he has served as a director
on the boards of CareerBuilder, Classified Ventures and BrassRing,
which he will continue to do in his new role.
From 1993 to 2000, Hiller served as Tribune
Company senior vice president/development, with responsibility
for strategic planning, acquisitions and new-venture investments.
He was Tribune’s vice president/general counsel from
1988 to 1993.
Hiller joined Tribune from the Chicago law
firm of Sidley & Austin. Earlier in his career, he served
two years at the U.S. Department of Justice as special assistant
to Attorney General William French Smith and as Associate
Deputy Attorney General. From 1979 to 1980, he was a law clerk
to United States Court of Appeals Judge Malcolm Wilkey and
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
Within Tribune’s publishing group, the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Orlando Sentinel;
Daily Press; The (Stamford) Advocate; Greenwich
Time; The Morning Call and Hoy, a Spanish-language
newspaper serving New York, report to Raymond A. Jansen, president,
publisher and chief executive officer of Newsday and senior
vice president of Tribune Publishing. The Chicago Tribune,
Los Angeles Times, Newsday and Baltimore
Sun report to Fuller. With today’s announcement,
Tribune Classified Services, Tribune Media Services, The
Hartford Courant, CLTV and Tribune Interactive now report
to Hiller.
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TRIBUNE (NYSE: TRB) is one of the country’s
premier media companies, operating businesses in broadcasting,
publishing and on the Internet. It reaches more than 80 percent
of U.S. households, and is the only media company with television
stations, newspapers 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 KWBP-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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