A Florida investor has expressed interest in joining an 11th-hour effort by a Maryland hotel magnate to acquire Tribune Publishing Company (NasdaqGM:TPCO) and wrest the company away from hedge fund Alden Global Capital, LLC. Mason Slaine, a technology investor and minority shareholder in Tribune, told The Wall Street Journal he is willing to put up $100 million toward a bid being put together by Stewart Bainum, Chairman of Choice Hotels International Inc. Mr. Slaine, who owns a 3.4% stake in Tribune, said he would make the personal investment in order to acquire the publisher’s two Florida newspapers, Orlando Sentinel Communications Company and the Sun-Sentinel Company, LLC in Fort Lauderdale.