Former Top Genachowski Aide Lazarus Named Tribune General Counsel

Edward Lazarus, former FCC chief of staff, has been named executive
VP and general counsel for Tribune Co.

Lazarus exited the commission a year ago, moving to Los Angeles,
where he had been an attorney with Akin Gump before joining the FCC in June
2009 and before that an LA prosecutor.

At the time, hetold B&C he did not know what
his next job would be.

Lazarus succeeds David Eldersveld, who joined Tribune in
2005 and remains with the company as a "special adviser."

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.