Draft:James O’Shea

James Eugene O'Shea (born August 5, 1943) is an American journalist, author, and editor. He is best known for his book The Deal from Hell, a narrative about the fatal merger of Times Mirror and the Tribune companies. In detailing how the combined company fell into the hands of Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate mogul, and then into bankruptcy, the book covers the forces that derailed the newspaper industry.

Career
O'Shea was editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times (Parting shot from Los Angeles Times editor ) and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune where he oversaw the Tribune's national/foreign news and investigative reporting staffs. O'Shea co-founded the Chicago News Cooperative, a digital news start-up that produced Chicago news pages twice a week for The New York Times. (In Chicago, Ex-Editor Fights Back) He was the Howard R. March visiting professor of journalism at the University of Michigan for the 2013/14 academic year. In 2022 he was named chairman of the board of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN).

Books

 * O'Shea, James (June 28, 2011). The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1586487911.
 * O'Shea, James and Charles Madigan (August 5, 1997). Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-2634-7.
 * O'Shea, James (January 1, 1991). The Daisy Chain. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671733032.