After almost three years of mind-numbing negotiations, a strike authorization vote, and the sale of the paper, editorial staffers finally ink a deal.
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Negotiations between Sun-Times Media and the Chicago Newspaper Guild reach an impasse
Negotiations between Sun-Times Media and the Chicago Newspaper Guild reach an impasse
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The Other Owners
Here are the new owners of the Sun-Times Media Group, announced Friday by Jim Tyree, the organizer and head of the investment group that’s now calling itself Sun-Times Media Holdings LLC.
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How a Little Pig Lipstick Saved the Sun-Times
After a grueling standoff, the union agrees to let the Sun-Times Media Group’s new owners do anything they want—almost.
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Nonunion Employees to Guild at the Post-Tribune: What About Us?
The fault line between the union and nonunion employees of the Sun-Times Media Group couldn’t be clearer than it now appears to be at the Post-Tribune, the group’s daily in Lake County, Indiana.
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The Sun-Times Media Group Is on Its Way to New Owners
For $5 million, financier James Tyree and the investor group he represents has taken a huge first step toward buying a local media empire — and $22 million of debt.
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Dramatic Meeting at Sun-Times
Union leaders from throughout the Sun-Times Media Group are being summoned to a meeting tomorrow afternoon with Ted Rilea, the vice president for labor relations. This comes as rumors of an impending sale of the bankrupt media group have crested — last week — and then ebbed. Newspaper Guild leaders aren’t talking.
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Mark Kipnis gets a break
Judge Amy St. Eve sends Conrad Black, Peter Atkinson, and Jack Boultbee to prison but lets Mark Kipnis go home.