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Real estate and media mogul Mortimer B. Zuckerman has sold one of his flagship publications, the New York Daily News, offloading the newspaper’s estimated $30 million in liabilities and 49.9% of its printing plant. This marks the end of an era for Zuckerman, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the biggest machers…
Media company Tronc Inc, which owns the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, said it acquired the New York Daily News from media and property mogul Mort Zuckerman. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a source familiar with the deal said Tronc would assume roughly $30 million of liabilities. Tronc said…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman are not clowning around. Trump fired back on Twitter on Wednesday against the News after the tabloid published a photo of Trump edited to make him appear similar to “The Joker,” a clown-like villain from the Batman comic series. “Dopey Mort…
Media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman is launching a $100 million program promoting scientific collaboration between the United States and Israel. The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program, announced Monday at a New York event that featured Gov. Andrew Cuomo and with several Nobel laureates on hand, promises to provide over $100 million in scholarships and related educational activities…
New York media and real estate magnate Mortimer Zuckerman is considering selling the New York Daily News. Zuckerman, who is also a prominent Jewish philanthropist and pro-Israel activist, said in the memo dated Feb. 26 he was approached about his interest in selling the tabloid. He did not name the individual or party. “Although there…
At Bernard Lewis’s neocon gala, the talk was of war, peace, democracy and Muslims. But in a room full of onetime advocates of the second Iraq War, no one much wanted to talk about a possible military strike on Iran. Paul Wolfowitz, the Bush administration Pentagon official who pushed hard for an invasion of Iraq…
The man once known as the intellectual godfather of the Iraq war opposes a military strike on Iran. Bernard Lewis, 96, the British-born expert on the Middle East who enjoyed exceptionally close ties to the Bush administration, told the Forward at a gala dinner held in his honor last night that he didn’t support military…
I’ve been finishing up work on a profile for this week’s paper on Dan Senor, who is reportedly getting ready to run for a U.S. Senate seat from New York. Multiple sources have been reporting that the former Bush administration appointee is set to throw his hat in the ring against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the…
