• February 6, 2009

The Tribune Co. on Thursday announced the creation of an online entertainment news bureau that will provide original, multimedia content to the company's newspaper and television websites.

The bureau will be powered by the combined resources of the Los Angeles Times, and Zap2it, an online source of movie and TV listings.

The bureau will deliver expanded coverage of movies and television, and will attempt to leverage writers and reporters from across Tribune to bring readers updated blogs and other multimedia news on more than 60 TV shows.

One of the team's first editorial projects will be a behind-the-scenes look at "American Idol."

While located at the Times, the bureau's editorial content will be aggregated on the Zap2it portal, which Tribune said will be relaunched later this year.--Gavin O'Malley