On a steamy track in Evanston 80 years ago, Babe Didrikson qualified for the Olympics in unparalleled style.
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Cause of death: poverty
The protagonist of David Simon’s book on a Baltimore neighborhood consumed by drugs has died of an overdose
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Better late then never [SIC]: National Grammar Day
A few suggestions for a belated celebration
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James O’Shea narrates the Tribune Company’s epic collapse
Days before my review copy of James O’Shea’s The Deal From Hell came in the mail, a friend who’d read an excerpt of O’Shea’s account of the Tribune Company-Times Mirror merger and its calamitous aftermath e-mailed me to rip the author. At issue: O’Shea’s failure to be up-front about the friendship between his ex-boss Ann […]
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At the Tribune Company, Inquiring Union Minds Want to Know
The Tribune Company has always managed to keep the Newspaper Guild out of its newsroom, but some other papers in the far-flung Tribune empire haven’t been so fortunate. And in Delaware, a federal bankruptcy judge just ruled that the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild must be told some of the details of the company’s $70 million executive […]
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Marketing and packaging the news at the Tribune
Chicago Tribune staff declares that asking readers what they think of stories that haven’t been written yet is going too far — and editor Gerould Kern agrees.
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You have nothing to lose but your chains
The Tribune Company takes a bold stand against the division of labor.