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Sun-Times Parent Company Buys Chicago Reader

Posted 05.23.2012

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The Chicago Reader, reported earlier this year to be on the auction block, was officially purchased Wednesday by Wrapports LLC, the parent company of ...

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Sun-Times Parent To Buy Chicago Reader For $3 Million

Crain's Chicago Business | Lynne Marek | Posted 05.09.2012

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(Crain's) -- Wrapports LLC, the parent of the Chicago Sun-Times, is poised to purchase the Chicago Reader as soon as next week for about $3 million, a...

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Conrad Black, Former Media Mogul, Released From Prison

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 05.04.2012

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TORONTO — Former media mogul Conrad Black arrived in Canada on Friday and was spotted kissing his wife, playing with their dogs and roaming the ...

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‘Little Louie’ Still Getting To Second Base At Sox Park

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 04.27.2012

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White Sox Hall of Fame shortstop Luis Aparicio hasn’t played big league ball in nearly 40 years, but the guy still gets to second base at Sox Park. ...

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TribLocal Announces Partnership With Journatic, Changes To Local Coverage

Posted 04.23.2012

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The Chicago Tribune's hyper-local online and print division, TribLocal, announced big changes stemming from a Tribune Co. investment in Chicago-based ...

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel Rolls Out Public Relations Razzle-Dazzle

David Ormsby | Posted 04.03.2012

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In the spite of the public relations razzle-dazzle, the substance of the mayor's strategy is unshakably sound.

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Chicago Reader On The Auction Block; Sun-Times Solicited As Buyer

Crain's Chicago Business | Lynne Marek | Posted 05.12.2012

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(Crain's) -- The owner of the Chicago Reader has put the alternative weekly on the sales block, hiring a Dallas firm to help shop the paper, according...

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The Board of Education's Circus Act Doesn't Help Kids

Kenzo Shibata | Posted 04.16.2012

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The December 14th takeover of the Chicago Board of Education meeting by parents and educators was at the first meeting after CPS announced its desire to "turnaround" ten schools. Immediately following, there was blowback from the mainstream media.

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Tribune Defends Candidate Endorsements, After Sun-Times Ducks Out

Posted 01.24.2012

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The Chicago Tribune on Tuesday published an editorial stating that, despite the Sun-Times' Monday announcement that they would cease making candidate ...

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Dem-Leaning Newspaper Stops Making Political Endorsements

Posted 01.23.2012

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The Chicago Sun-Times announced late Sunday that, for the first time since it launched 71 years ago, it will not be making endorsements in the upcomin...

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Investment Group Closes Chicago Sun-Times Purchase

AP | Posted 02.26.2012

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CHICAGO — A new investment group has completed its purchase of the company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times. Wrapports LLC says its transaction ...

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Chicago Sun-Times Purchase Finalized

AP | Posted 02.26.2012

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CHICAGO (AP) — A new investment group has completed its purchase of the company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times. Wrapports LLC says i...

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Investment Group To Acquire Sun-Times

AP | By SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 12.22.2011

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CHICAGO -- A new investment group led by a Chicago entrepreneur and a former Newsday media executive has agreed to buy Sun-Times Media Holdings, the c...

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Report: Sun-Times To Be Sold For More Than $20 Million

Posted 12.21.2011

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The Chicago Sun-Times, the city's second biggest newspaper whose recent financial woes led to a bankruptcy declaration in 2009 and the recent erection...

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Sun-Times Launches Paywall For Online Content

Posted 12.06.2011

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One of Chicago's two main daily newspapers will be introducing a "metered" paywall later this week. The Chicago Sun-Times announced late Tuesday th...

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Cities And Schools, Struggling For Revenue, Get Creative With Ad Space

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON and ROBERT RAY | Posted 01.22.2012

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CHICAGO — Seven vinyl banners draped this month along one of Chicago's most iconic bridges, advertisements some have dubbed "a visual crime" and...

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Could the Occupy Chicago Movement Help Gov. Pat Quinn Sustain ComEd "Smart Grid" Veto?

David Ormsby | Posted 12.12.2011

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The thinking among Springfield insiders up until a few weeks had been that the legislature was likely to override Governor Quinn's veto of ComEd's "Smart Grid" bill. That was before the Occupy Wall Street movement ignited.

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Two Thumbs Up for Ebert And "Life Itself"

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.23.2011

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The chapter "How I Believe in God," is one of the more self-aware, humble and eloquent accounts of personal belief I've ever read.

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Food Critic Fired After 27 Years

Time Out Chicago | Posted 11.13.2011

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After 27 years and countless restaurant reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times, Pat Bruno never thought it would end this way. Not with just a phone call f...

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Hundreds Of Layoffs As Chicago Papers Come Together

AP | Posted 09.19.2011

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CHICAGO — A Chicago Tribune printing facility will soon turn out editions of its longtime newspaper rival the Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago Tr...

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Student Arrested And Expelled For Writing Name On Desk, Peers Seek Change

Posted 09.14.2011

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A Chicago student advocacy group is fed up with its school system's zero-tolerance disciplinary policies. Voices of Youth in Chicago Education rall...

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The Hidden Truth About Chatham

Zack Isaacs | Posted 08.29.2011

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For years, Chatham has been the premier black community on the South Side with nice homes and manicured lawns. But some residents feel their "grass wa...

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Conrad Black Going Back To Prison, Wife Faints During Chicago Hearing

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 08.24.2011

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CHICAGO — Conrad Black, once a media mogul whose newspaper empire spanned several continents, is headed back to prison after a federal judge rul...

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Federal Judge To Resentence Media Mogul Conrad Black

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 08.23.2011

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CHICAGO — Competing portraits of Conrad Black – once one of the world's most powerful media moguls – will be on display Friday in Ch...

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Sun-Times Critic Ousted After Inaccurate 'Glee' Review

Chicago Tribune | Posted 08.09.2011

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Paige Wiser is out at the Chicago Sun-Times after 17 years, the last three as its television critic, because her "Glee Live!" concert review in Sunday...

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