Tribune Former Chief Exec Stanton Cook Dies at 90

Chicago Tribune: Former Tribune CEO Stanton R. Cook inherited an underperforming company and transformed it into a modern, diversified media corporation that broke with its conservative past, endured a lengthy union strike and bought a Major League Baseball team. Cook, 90, died of natural causes on Thursday in his home, said his son, Doug. “Stan Cook was a terrific leader and one of the pioneers in diversifying media companies,” Tony Hunter, publisher and CEO of Chicago Tribune Media Group, said. “He always talked about the joy he got from working with so many talented, good people.”