Monday, April 2, 2007

CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-L.A. Times staff uncertain about new owner

(Reuters) - LOS ANGELES, April 2 - Staff at the Los Angeles Times, shaken by months of turmoil, voiced anxiety on Monday over Chicago billionaire Sam Zell's planned buyout even as the paper ran a story about the real estate mogul's reputation as a hard-nosed "grave dancer."

The Times' corporate parent, Tribune Co., announced it had accepted Zell's bid for $34 per share to take the newspaper and broadcasting giant private under an employee stock ownership plan entitling him to buy 40 percent of Tribune's common stock.


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