Tribune Co.'s Chief Innovation Officer Gets Extra Innovative

Yesterday we discovered that Sam Zell thinks newspapers have never recovered from defining success as they experienced it during Watergate — everyone wants to be Woodward & Bernstein (this ties into Zell’s belief that you can’t monetize Pulitzers). Today we hear from The Tribune Co.’s “Chief Innovation Officer” Lee Abrams who’s certainly being “innovative” (also not at all hesitant to put the CAP LOCKS function to use) in his latest memo.

In the memo Abrams is rethinking local television coverage (“What with the suits and ties.

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