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Tribune Names Thomas D. Leach Vice
President/Development
CHICAGO,
December 16, 2003
-- Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB)
today named Thomas D. Leach vice president/development, effective
Feb. 1, 2004 . Leach is currently chief financial officer
of Tribune Broadcasting, and has been with the company for
nearly 20 years.
"Tom has been an integral part of the
growth of Tribune Broadcasting," said Dennis FitzSimons,
Tribune president and chief executive officer. "Having served
in corporate development once before, Tom is familiar with
our strategies and has helped spearhead acquisitions -- that
experience will serve the company well going forward."
Leach was named vice president/administration and chief
financial officer of Tribune Broadcasting in March 2001.
He directs group staff activities including for finance,
human resources, planning and development and the television
production studios in Los Angeles for the company's television,
radio and entertainment businesses. In February 2003, his
responsibilities expanded to include Tribune Broadcasting's
news and broadcast operations, as well as its Business Systems
Development group.
"Tribune has a great development team,
staffed with excellent people whose analytical skills are
second to none," said
Leach. "I am looking forward to the challenges ahead as we
execute on the company's strategy -- being a leader in television
consolidation and building scale in newspapers."
Leach previously served as vice president/development of
Tribune Company from 1998 to 2001. He was responsible for
strategy and development activities relating to broadcasting,
cable and entertainment, as well as developing business opportunities
that cut across and beyond Tribune's current businesses.
From 1990 to 1998, Leach served in several finance and strategy
positions for Tribune Broadcasting, overseeing partnership
investments and working on acquisitions, strategic planning
and development projects for the group.
Leach joined Tribune Company in 1986 as
a financial analyst at WGN-TV, Chicago . Prior to Tribune,
he was an auditor with Coopers & Lybrand. A native of Joliet
, Ill. , Leach holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and
business administration from Augustana College in Rock Island
, Ill. :: :: ::
TRIBUNE (NYSE: TRB) is
one of the country's premier media companies, operating
businesses in broadcasting and publishing. It reaches
more than 80 percent of U.S. households and is the only
media organization with television stations, newspapers
and Web sites in the nation's top three markets. In publishing,
Tribune operates 13 leading daily newspapers including
the Los Angeles Times , Chicago Tribune,
Newsday and Spanish-language Hoy , plus
a wide range of targeted publications. The company's
broadcasting group operates 26 television stations; Superstation
WGN on national cable; WGN-AM in Chicago; and the Chicago
Cubs baseball team. Popular news and information Web
sites complement Tribune's print and broadcast properties
and extend the company's nationwide audience. |
