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Old Enough to Know Better, Young Enough to Pretend: Can the Chicago News Cooperative Succeed?

Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Journalism, Chicago Reader, Old Media vs. New Media, Creative Commons, Chicago Politics, Chicago Olympics, Death of Newspapers, Wbez, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, New York Times, Cnc, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago News
Daniel Sinker

If there was a better day to announce the News Cooperative, I can't think of it. After Mayor Daley's budget address, the two major papers ran the same cover: a 24-year-old kidnapping.

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Chicago Public Radio Lays Off 11

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Vocalo, Chicago Public Radio Layoffs, Chicago Public Radio Cuts, Chicago Public Radio, Wbez Layoffs, Economy, Vocalo Layoffs, Wbez, Wbez Staff Cuts, Chicago News

Chicago Public Radio, the parent of WBEZ-FM 91.5,chicagopublicradio.org, Vocalo.org and WBEW-FM 89.5 FM, is laying off around 9 percent of its staff ...

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Do You Know Where Your Public Radio Pledge Is Going?

Chicago Reader | Michael Miner | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Public Radio Pledge Drive, Vocalo Funding, Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ Fundraising, Torey Malatia, Vocalo, Wbez, WBEZ Pledge Drive, Chicago News

Wondering whether any of the money you want to give WBEZ this week will wind up with Vocalo? Don't expect the folks running the fall pledge drive to t...

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Obama Versus R. Kelly: No Competition

Christine Escobar | Posted 05.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Chicago News Media, Obama Milestone, Republican Primaries, Obama Delegates, Chicago Public Radio, R. Kelly, Lynn Sweet, Mary Mitchell, Chicago Magazine, Barack Obama, R. Kelly Trial, Pledged Delegates, Chicago Politics, Chicago Sun-Times, Clinton Victory Kentucky, R. Kelly Child Pornograhy Trial, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008, Democratic Primaries, Chicago Tribune, Obama and Oregon, Carol Marin, Wbez, Home News
Christine Escobar

In Obama's hometown the big news this week was not his historic delegate lead. It was the R. Kelly underage porn trial, which is no knock on Obama, for what can compete anymore with a celebrity underage porn trial?

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