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James Eugene O'Shea (born August 5, 1943) is an American journalist, author, and editor. He is best known for his book The Deal from Hell, a narrative about the fatal merger of Times Mirror and the Tribune companies. In detailing how the combined company fell into the hands of Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate mogul, and then into bankruptcy, the book covers the forces that derailed the newspaper industry.
Career
[edit]O'Shea was editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times (Parting shot from Los Angeles Times editor[1])[2] and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune where he oversaw the Tribune's national/foreign news and investigative reporting staffs. O'Shea co-founded the Chicago News Cooperative, a digital news start-up that produced Chicago news pages twice a week for The New York Times. (In Chicago, Ex-Editor Fights Back)[3][4] He was the Howard R. March visiting professor of journalism at the University of Michigan for the 2013/14 academic year. In 2022 he was named chairman of the board[5][6] of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN).[7][8]
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]- O'Shea, James (June 28, 2011). The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1586487911.
- O'Shea, James and Charles Madigan (August 5, 1997). Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-2634-7.
- O'Shea, James (January 1, 1991). The Daisy Chain. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671733032.
References
[edit]- ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (22 January 2008). "Parting shot from Los Angeles Times editor". The New York Times.
- ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (2008-01-22). "Parting shot from Los Angeles Times editor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (23 November 2009). "In Chicago, Ex-Editor Fights Back". The New York Times.
- ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (2009-11-23). "In Chicago, Ex-Editor Fights Back". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ^ "Veteran journalist James O'Shea named MBN Board Chair".
- ^ "Veteran journalist James O'Shea named MBN Board Chair". USAGM. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ^ "U.S. Agency for Global Media", Wikipedia, 2024-05-09, retrieved 2024-05-29
- ^ "Veteran journalist James O'Shea named MBN Board Chair". USAGM. Retrieved 2024-05-29.