Last week's newest bloodletting at Sam Zell's Chicago Tribune saw bone start to be jettisoned along with flesh. On top of hundreds of job losses since the beginning of the year, early-buyout exits by managing news editor Hanke Gratteau and public editor Timothy McNulty-along with two dozen other core newsroom staff-from one of the most important news outfits in the nation is shocking.
But it's no surprise (at least not for anyone who's ever glanced at Newspaper Death Watch). The...
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