Mort Zuckerman has agreed to sell the long struggling New York Daily News to Chicago-based Tronc. The company adds the paper to its stable of dailies that includes the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Florida’s Orlando Sentinel and Sun-Sentinel, Allentown’s Morning Call, the Newport News, Va-based…

The mass firings under owner Mort Zuckerman at New York’s foundering Daily News continued today with the pink-slipping of longtime and well-regarded music critic Jim Farber. Here’s how he announced it, minutes ago: This follows the departures in recent days of TV columnist David Hinckley after three decades and…

Mort Zuckerman, the 78-year-old real-estate mogul who has been trying to unload the foundering tabloid, yesterday officially took the paper off the table. “As you know, several months ago I announced exploring the sale of the Daily News," he told the staff in a memo. "I have met with several potential interested and…