Zell replaces interactive president of Tribune

Tribune Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Zell recently replaced his company's interactive president Tim Landon on an interim basis.
Stepping into the posistion is Mark Sotir, managing director of Zell's Equity Group Investments, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The story says that Randy Michaels, whom Zell named Tribune's chief executive of broadcasting and interactive, may have telegraphed a change atop the interactive division on the day the $8.2 billion transaction taking the company private closed.
"There are some pretty obvious and unexploited opportunities," Michaels said in an interview Dec. 20. "I think blurting it out in the paper is probably not the right competitive idea, but I will say this: It's a little bit embarrassing that all media companies have made their Web sites and their Web efforts look too much like their traditional business."
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