Chicago Tribune

Why Americans Ignore the Poor

Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hunger, Poverty, Food Stamps, Chicago Public Schools, Summer, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Food, Chicago Tribune, Urban Policy, Politics News

Urban populations across this country don't have enough food to eat in a country that pays farmers not to grow food.

Read Post

Chicago Tribune Sues University Of Illinois Over Clout Admissions

AP | Posted 07.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: University of Illinois, University of Illinois Clout List, Chicago Tribune, U of I Clout Admissions, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- A newspaper that exposed the University of Illinois' practice of admitting some politically connected applicants despite low test scor...

Read Whole Story

Chicago News Blogs Have Put Enough Skin in the Game

Sally Duros | Posted 07.09.2009 | 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.

Read Post

Gormless

Michael Jones | Posted 06.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Guantanamo, Chicago Tribune, Tom Hundley, Chciago Tribune Magazine, Candace Gorman, Guantanamo Detainees, Chicago News

The question of why is never asked nor answered in the article. Why does Guantanamo exist?

Read Post

David Axelrod's 'Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me' Appearance

Chicago Tribune | Mark Silva | Posted 06.14.2009 | Media

Read More: David Axelrod NPR, Wait, David Axelrod, Don't Tell Me', 'Wait, David Axelrod Wait, Chicago Tribune, Media News

Axelrod, appearing on stage in Washington as the star guest of National Public Radio's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!, will attempt to answer questions ab...

Read Whole Story

The Socially Catastrophic Demise of the Light Feature Story

David Murray | Posted 06.01.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Reader, Birdland, Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Journalism, Feature Stories, Chicago Magazine, Newspapers, Chicago News

Mike Royko used to refer dismissively to the Tribune's Features department as "Birdland." Funny once. But now, maybe it's time for a bird to stand up for his land.

Read Post

Chicago Tribune Got Readers Reactions To Stories Before Publication, Newsroom Protests

AP | HERBERT G. McCANN | Posted 05.31.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Marketing Survey, Gerould Kern, Jane Hirt, Newspapers, Tribune Ethics, Chicago News

CHICAGO — The Chicago Tribune in recent weeks solicited subscribers' opinions on stories before they were published, a practice the paper's own ...

Read Whole Story

Tribune Picking Up Zell's Legal Bills In Blagojevich Case

AP | Posted 05.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sam Zell Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Rod Blagojevich, Sam Zell, Tribune Company, Sam Zell Blagojevich, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Tribune Co. will pay the legal bills of chairman and chief executive Sam Zell related to a federal corruption investigation into forme...

Read Whole Story

Green News Report - April 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KRXA 540am in beautiful Monterey, CA! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in Iowa for Earth Day whil...

Read Post

Chicago Tribune Lays Off 53 Newsroom Staffers

AP | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Newspapers, Chicago Tribune Cuts, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Chicago News

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

Read Whole Story

Chicago Tribune To Cut Newsroom 20%

Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Chicago Tribune Newsroom Cuts, Chicago Tribune Cuts, Chicago Tribune, Media News

(Crain's) -- The Chicago Tribune plans to cut another 20% of its newsroom staff in yet another bid to reduce expenses amid continuing advertising decl...

Read Whole Story

Bleak Media Economy Now Affecting Cartoon Journalists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Brenda Starr, Editor and Publisher, Chicago Tribune, Media Economy, Media News

It's getting so hard out here for print journalism that now even our beloved intrepid fictional reporters are feeling the pinch. So says Editor and P...

Read Whole Story

Chicago Tribune Twitter-izes Its Masthead

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspaper, Twitter, Chicago Tribune Twitter Masthead, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Twitter, Media News

The Chicago Tribune has Twitter-ized its masthead! The flagship newspaper of the embattled Tribune Company included its editors' Twitter accounts und...

Read Whole Story

Wall Street Journal Takes A Shot At The Chicago Tribune, In The Chicago Sun-Times

Reuters | Robert MacMillan | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wall Street Journal Sun-Times Ad, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Tribune, Newspaper Industry, Chicago News

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. ...

Read Whole Story

Newsrooms Must Die, Long Live Newsrooms!

Sally Duros | Posted 03.29.2009 | 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.

Read Post

Tribune Tower Taken Off The Market

Crain's Chicago Business | Eddie Baeb | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Trib Tower, Tribune Company, Chicago Real Estate, Tribune Tower, Chicago Tribune, Tribune Bankruptcy, Real Estate, Tribune Tower Sale, Chicago News

Tribune Co. has scrapped plans to put the Tribune Tower up for sale because of cratering real estate prices and the company's late-year bankruptcy pro...

Read Whole Story

Stealing Horses With Blago And Telling

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Corruption, Depraved Politicians, Rod Blagojevich, Men’s Journal, Corrupt Politicians, Money in Politics, Betty Loren-Maltese, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dan Rostenkowski, Bill Powell, Chicago Tribune, Blago, George Ryan, Cicero, Media News

Bill Powell had a chance to tell us about how decent people can be so easily depraved by going into politics. Instead, he ended up selling for cheap the little intimate information about Blago he had.

Read Post

Chicago Tribune Cuts 12 Journalists, Closes Jerusalem Bureau

Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 03.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Tribune Jerusalem Bureau, Chicago Tribune Newsroom Cuts, Chicago Tribune, Newspaper Industry, Chicago Tribune Layoffs, Chicago News

The Chicago Tribune eliminated about a dozen staff positions from its newsroom Thursday, part of a new wave of cuts designed to rein in costs as adver...

Read Whole Story

Journalism Does Not Need To Be Saved, Newspapers Do

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Editorials, Tribune Company, Chicago Tribune Bankruptcy, Political Debates, Old Media Death Watch, Magazines, Technology, Reporting, Media News, The Internet, Wall Street Journal, Old Media, Old Media vs. New Media, Micropayments, Journalism, Television, Websites, Political Writing, Trivia, Op-Ed, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, World Wide Web, Walter Isaacson, Economy, Newspapers, Saving Journalism, Media News

I see editorial writing in U.S. mainstream media, with a very few exceptions, as propaganda deprived of intellectual reflection. The public senses this as well, distrusts the media instinctively.

Read Post

How To Save Newspapers

Sally Duros | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago

Newspapers could find a lifeline to solvency and a return to social purpose in a new kind of corporate structure.

Read Post

Chicago Tribune Plans Job Cuts, Salary Freeze

AP | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Chicago Tribune, Media News

CHICAGO — The publisher of the financially struggling Chicago Tribune Media Group says the company plans to cut jobs, freeze wages and increase ...

Read Whole Story

Where Have All The Chicago Reporters Gone?

Ryan Blitstein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Coverage, Midwest Coverage, Tribune Company, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Chicago Bureaus, Pj Hufstutter, Newspaper Industry, Chicago News

Locals aren't getting the coverage we need and America is receiving a skewed perspective on the lives of 60 million-plus people in Chicago and other major cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Minneapolis.

Read Post

Tribune Co. Wants To Keep LA Times, WGN

Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Tribune Company, Tribune LA Times, Cubs Sale, Tribune Bankruptcy, Chicago Tribune, Newspaper Industry, Sam Zell, Tribune Reorganization, Chicago News

A month into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, Chicago-based Tribune Co. is beginning to form a strategy for holding the company's major assets together...

Read Whole Story

EXTRA, EXTRA: Chicago Tribune Launching Tabloid Edition

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 02.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Red Eye, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune Tabloid Edition, Tribune Tabloid, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Tabloid, Newspaper Industry, Chicago News

The Chicago Tribune on Monday will hit the streets--and its rival Chicago Sun-Times--with a newly reformatted tabloid-sized version of itself for wee...

Read Whole Story

Chicago Tribune Editor Says Redesign 'A Success'

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Gerould Kern, Chicago Tribune Redesign, Tribune Redesign, Chicago Tribune, Chicago News

Chicago Tribune editor Gerould Kern circulated a staff memo repudiating critics of the paper's redesign-- and subsequent insert on the changes it mad...

Read Whole Story

Chicago Tribune

HuffPost Social News connects you with friends and the news