The dueling obituaries of a transgender sportswriter.
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Tribune Company Ending Pretense Its Employees Own It
The Tribune is dropping the pretense that its employees own the company, abandoning the ESOP arrangement as part of its restructuring.
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David Greising Goes Future Hunting
Ask me if Jim O’Shea’s Chicago News Cooperative has a chance to succeed and I’ll say yes — not because the concept is mesmerizing but because David Greising did his due diligence and then decided to sign on.
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“Chicago News Cooperative” Will Serve New York Times and Local Media
The evolution of Chicago news media took a major step forward Thursday. Jim O’Shea, former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune and editor of the Los Angeles Times, announced that his brainchild is off the ground. It’s the Chicago News Cooperative, “designed to provide high quality, professionally edited news and commentary to the Chicago region […]
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Whose News Is It Anyway?
There’s constant chatter on local blogs and tweets about when the limits of aggregation are being exceeded in Chicago. At the Hartford Courant recently there was no argument.
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Chicago Reader enters Atalaya Era
Creative Loafing loses its last bid in bankruptcy court, and its main creditor takes the reins at the Reader.
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Reader Bidder Would Bring Jim O’Shea Back to Chicago Media
LA Times editor who was fired for bucking budget cuts would be on the board if Atalaya wins the Creative Loafing chain in an auction today.
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When Will We See This in Chicago?
Downsized veterans of the Los Angeles Times have united online to look for piecework. The Journalism Shop is a new Web site where 23 “highly skilled newspaper veterans interested in taking on freelance assignments” introduce themselves and describe their specific skills as reporters, writers, editors, designers, and marketers. (If they didn’t do PR before, some […]
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Leave room for some news — it is page one.
LA Times runs a vertical page one ad that looks a lot like a news story.
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Tribune austerity at the Gridiron Club dinner
Actually, the Tribune Company did cut costs dramatically at this year’s Gridiron Club dinner
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Tribune Co. foreign coverage will be run from LA Times
Tribune Company is consolidating its Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times foreign services, and headquarters will be in LA.
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Meanwhile, in Los Angeles . . .
Los Angeles isn’t like Chicago: LA’s public officials speak out when the Tribune Company reduces the local newspaper.
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Alas, the Dodgers are one game up!
LA mayor to Chicago mayor — if the Cubs beat the Dodgers we’ll let you take back Sam Zell.
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LA Times veterans sue Sam Zell
Present and former Los Angeles Times staffers sue Sam Zell.