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...
Sally Duros | Posted 06.08.2009 | Chicago
For nearly two decades, newspapers have been challenged to evolve into knowledge-based organizations capable of adapting to the innovations of the Web. Instead of progressing, they've been traded as chits in a greedy money-grab game by short-sighted media conglomerates.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media
News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch made an appearance on his corporation's business station, Fox Business Network, Thursday to speak to Brian Sullivan ...
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 05.06.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times newsroom employees represented by the Newspaper Guild voted Tuesday night to accept a temporary 9 percent pay cut and other proposal...
AP | Posted 05.04.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
Mike Doyle | Posted 04.22.2009 | Chicago
It doesn't matter what you were taught in journalism school, relevance on the Internet is demonstrated by disclosing who you are, what you think, and why.
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 04.20.2009 | Chicago
Sun-Times Media Group Inc. cut about 140 jobs companywide last week as it tries to trim costs during its bankruptcy reorganization....
Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 04.18.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mary Mitchell | Posted 04.14.2009 | Chicago
More than 500 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer every day. On March 13, I was one of them. It was as if someone had strapped me...
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert | Posted 04.08.2009 | Chicago
Dear Bill: Thanks for including the Chicago Sun-Times on your exclusive list of newspapers on your "Hall of Shame." To be in an O'Reilly Hall of Fame ...
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 04.06.2009 | Media
Roland Martin, temporarily filling in as host of "No Bias, No Bull" while Campbell Brown is on maternity leave, is profiled by the Washington Post's H...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 03.31.2009 | Media
CHICAGO — The owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, a storied newspaper once home to legendary columnist Mike Royko and other greats, followed its hom...
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 03.25.2009 | Chicago
Sports columnist Greg Couch is leaving the Chicago Sun-Times after a dozen years to cover golf, tennis and college football and basketball for AOL's F...
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Sun-Times is raising its Monday-through-Saturday single-copy retail price by a quarter to 75 cents, beginning March 30....
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 03.13.2009 | Chicago
The need to dramatically cut costs to stem losses [at the Chicago Sun-Times] remains. A plan to outsource copy editing and page designing to Canada or...
Reuters | Robert MacMillan | Posted 03.11.2009 | Chicago
The Wall Street Journal turned a letter from Davison, a former Chicago Tribune subscriber, into an advertisement -- that it tried to run in the Trib. ...
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.02.2009 | Style
While the President was in Canada, Michelle Obama orchestrated a 'Girls' Night In' at the White House, which might be a first!
Sally Duros | Posted 02.26.2009 | Chicago
Information has risen to the level of being a most pressing community need in our current democracy. More than ever, a newsroom must be a mission-based place.
Associated Press | Posted 02.18.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Sun-Times has named Donald Hayner its new editor in chief. The 57-year-old Hayner had been the newspaper's managing edito...
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 02.11.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times Editor Michael Cooke told staff today he is leaving the paper at the end of this month, a day after former newsroom colleague John B...
AP | Posted 02.11.2009 | Chicago
Sun-Times Media Group Inc. has picked the former president and general manager of the Dallas Morning News as interim chief executive officer and chair...
Sally Duros | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
Newspapers could find a lifeline to solvency and a return to social purpose in a new kind of corporate structure.
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago
[Oprah] Winfrey, a wealthy Chicagoan who presides over a multimedia empire, has sung the praises of the Sun-Times in recent months with an evangelisti...
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Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 06.09.2009 | Chicago