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Sun-Times Sale: Chicago Investor Group Bids To Buy Embattled Newspaper Group

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Struggling newspaper publisher Sun-Times Media Group said Tuesday that a private investor group led by Chicago banker James Tyree will...

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Sun-Times Group Closes Area Printing Plant As Cash Gets Tight

AP | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — The Chicago Sun-Times' parent company is closing a suburban printing plant, which is expected to cost 70 jobs. Sun-Times spokeswoman ...

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Bankrupt Sun-Times Looks To Pay Bonuses To 20 Executives

Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 07.10.2009 | Chicago

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Sun-Times Media Group Inc., which has been slashing jobs and closing down newspapers to cut costs, wants to pay 20 employees up to $1.8 million in bon...

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State of Pay: A Chicago News-Blog Suspense Story

Sally Duros | Posted 06.29.2009 | Chicago

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Our emerging newsrooms will be staffed in part by a generation of newshounds -- yes, journalists -- who've taken on the task of news delivery through the Web on their own.

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Chicago Sun-Times Newsroom Union OK's 9 Percent Pay Cut

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 06.06.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago Sun-Times newsroom employees represented by the Newspaper Guild voted Tuesday night to accept a temporary 9 percent pay cut and other proposal...

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Sun-Times May Have A Buyer: Mesirow Financial CEO James Tyree

AP | Posted 06.04.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago investment banker said Monday he is assembling a group to bid on the bankrupt Sun-Times Media Group. James Tyree, chairman ...

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Chicago Tribune Lays Off 53 Newsroom Staffers

AP | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Tribune is cutting 53 jobs as part of a newsroom reorganization designed to help the newspaper weather the economic downtu...

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Sun-Times Group Laid Off 10 Percent Of Non-Union Staff Last Week

Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago

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Sun-Times Media Group Inc. cut about 140 jobs companywide last week as it tries to trim costs during its bankruptcy reorganization....

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Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off More Staff

Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 05.19.2009 | Chicago

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Sun-Times Media Group Inc. cut an undisclosed number of managerial jobs this week at its flagship publication, part of cost cuts that continue through...

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Chicago's Sun-Times Media Group Files For Bankruptcy Protection

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media

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CHICAGO — The owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, a storied newspaper once home to legendary columnist Mike Royko and other greats, followed its hom...

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Chicago Newspapers Facing Troubled Futures

AP | F.N. D'ALESSIO | Posted 01.29.2009 | Media

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CHICAGO — A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers. The fierce competition among them, immortaliz...

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Why Didn't Obama's Run Help Chicago Newspapers?

Ad Age | Jeremy Mullman | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago

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Barack Obama's resounding victory led to a run on newspapers around the country, but especially in Chicago, where giddy readers scrambled to grab keep...

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Jay Mariotti Leaving Chicago Sun-Times

Posted 09.26.2008 | Chicago

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Sports columnist Jay Mariotti resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times Tuesday after 17 years as the paper's resident lightning rod. "They accepted it,'' ...

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