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Boulder, CO | Posted at 11:44am on Friday, November 20th, 2009 | In late November 2009, The Chicago Sun-Times named Chris De Luca as its new sports editor. He has been the newspaper's national baseball writer since 2004. De Luca replaced Stu Courtney who previously held the top sports editor position.
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:29pm on Monday, October 19th, 2009 | Jim Tyree, a Chicago businessman who is likely to be the new owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and Sun-Times Media Group, thinks he can make a buck or two in the newspaper business. The Chicago Tribune reported the story on October 11, 2009:
"Ever since Chicago financier Jim Tyree let it be known in May that he wanted to rescue the city's No. 2 newspaper company from certain collapse, even supporters have wondered.
Sun-Times Media Group Inc. had limped into a Delaware bankruptcy court on March 31 after bleeding hundreds of millions in cash since 2006.
It badly trailed its chief rival, the Chicago Tribune, by almost any competitive metric and was being sucked into the vortex of an industrywide implosion brought on by economic turmoil and the Internet.
If Tyree needed reminding of how badly a financial guru could stain his reputation by wandering into the media maelstrom, he could simply pick up the phone and call billionaire Sam Zell, who had steered the Tribune's parent, Tribune Co., into its own messy bankruptcy months earlier.
But Tyree, the 51-year-old chairman of Mesirow Financial Group and a prominent civic booster, was listening to his own logic.
"You look at the revenue here," he said at the time. "It's well over $200 million. You ought to be able to make money at that.""
The full story:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sun-tyree-sun-times-oct11,0,4262601,full.story
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:00pm on Friday, August 21st, 2009 | Robert Novak, the political pundit and columnist, died on August 18, 2009 at the age of 78. The Chicago Sun-Times, for which Novak wrote for many years, reported:
"Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak, one of the nation's most influential journalists, who relished his "Prince of Darkness" public persona, died at home here early Tuesday morning after a battle with brain cancer.
"He was someone who loved being a journalist, love journalism and loved his country and loved his family, Novak's wife, Geraldine, told the Sun-Times on Tuesday.
"Bob was always the pro, no matter what he had going on he was always at the ready to help out on stories, and he broke more than his share. Even as he became a national figure he was always proud to be part of the Sun-Times and we were proud of him," said Don Hayner, Editor in Chief of the Chicago Sun-Times."
The full story:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/08/robert_novak_chicago_sun-times.html
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 4:35pm on Friday, May 29th, 2009 | Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Greg Couch has left the newspaper to join the AOL Sports web site Fanhouse. He follows Sun-Times sports writer Jay Mariotti, who left for AOL last summer. The Chicago Tribune had this report on March 25, 2009:
"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 FanHouse.com site.
AOL Sports earlier signed former Sun-Times sports columnist Jay Mariotti, who resigned last summer after returning from the Beijing Olympics with complaints about the paper's Internet efforts. Couch was the other half of the Sun-Times contingent in China to cover the Games.
Although Couch tendered his resignation Tuesday, Sun-Times Sports Editor Stu Courtney said Wednesday he did not know when Couch's last day at the paper would be. Couch said the Sun-Times was still planning to send him to cover the NCAA men's basketball regional in Indianapolis later this week, leaving his AOL start date up in the air.
"I just wanted to start playing offense," Couch said. "All newspapers, not just the Sun-Times, you're playing defense, you're hanging on for dear life. AOL seems to have found their niche, and they're thinking big. ... I just wanted to go with someone who was trying to grow rather than just trying to hang on."
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:39pm on Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | The Sun-Times Media Group, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, filed for bankruptcy protection on March 31, 2009. Sun-Times staff reporter David Roeder filed this report:
"Sun-Times Media Group Inc., owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and many suburban newspapers, today voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the aim of reorganizing operations, settling a tax liability and making the company fit for a buyer.
The petition was filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. Chairman Jeremy Halbreich said the filing was a difficult decision but essential for the company “to re-establish itself as a self-sustaining, profitable operation. That is worth fighting for.”
His overriding goals are to sustain the company’s print and online news operations while “preserving as many jobs as possible," he said.
The company has one significant creditor -- the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS has said Sun-Times Media Group owes up to $608 million in back taxes and penalties from past business practices by its former controlling owner, Conrad Black, now imprisoned for theft from corporate coffers.
Unlike other newspaper owners that have filed for bankruptcy amid steep dropoffs in advertising, including Chicago-based Tribune Co., Sun-Times Media Group has no bank debt. But its IRS debt thwarted efforts to raise new capital."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:52pm on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 | February 18, 2009: The Chicago Sun-Times has promoted Don Hayner to editor in chief. Hayner will replace Michael Cooke, who is leaving to become the editor at the Toronto Star.
Hayner was most recently the managing editor of the Sun-Times. The Sun-Times also announced that it has named long-time reporter and editor Andrew Herrmann as Managing Editor.
Mr. Hayner, 57, has had a long and distinguished history with the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has served in various capacities for nearly 27 years. At the Sun-Times, Mr. Hayner has been the metro editor, city editor, a general assignment reporter, a personal finance writer, a neighborhood beat reporter and a Sunday features writer. He has won several awards for reporting including a national award for education writers.
Prior to the Sun-Times, Mr. Hayner practiced law for three years before switching careers to work as a reporter at City News Bureau. From there he went to the Suburban Trib where he was a reporter and later a columnist. For five years he co-hosted a Saturday morning talk radio show for WLS-AM (890). He also co-authored three books: Streetwise Chicago, A History of Chicago Street Names; The Metro Chicago Almanac; and The Stadium: 1929-1994, The Official Commemorative History of the Chicago Stadium.
Mr. Hayner is a graduate of Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, and John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He is married to Dawn Hayner and they live on the South Side of Chicago. They have two sons.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:37am on Monday, February 16th, 2009 | February 11, 2009: The Chicago Tribune reported that Chicago Sun-Times editor Michael Cooke is leaving for the Toronto Star:
"Chicago Sun-Times Editor Michael Cooke told staff today he is leaving the newspaper at the end of this month, a day after former newsroom colleague John Barron was appointed publisher by parent Sun-Times Media Group.
Cooke, 56, said in his memo he is joining the Toronto Star as its editor. The move reunites him with former Sun-Times Publisher John Cruickshank, now publisher of the Star.
The Sun-Times, whose parent on Tuesday appointed a new board chairman and interim chief executive and made other management adjustments, did not immediately name Cooke's successor.
Cruickshank and Cooke arrived in Chicago together from separate Vancouver newspapers in 2000 to jointly oversee editorial operations at the Sun-Times, with Cruickshank eventually moving into the publisher's office. Cooke left to become editor of the New York Daily News in January 2005, but Cruickshank welcomed him back to the company as a vice president the following December, overseeing the company's regional coverage through its suburban papers."
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:54pm on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 | On December 28, 2008, the Associated Press reported that Chicago newspapers face difficult futures:
"A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers.
The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play "The Front Page," even turned bloody at times, and that drive to outdo one another led to 35 Pulitzer Prizes, journalism's highest honor.
Today, only two major dailies remain in this city of 3 million, and both are in serious trouble from declining circulation, plummeting ad revenue and a new kind of competition that threatens to make newsprint itself obsolete.
Suddenly, "Stop the presses!" carries new meaning.
Even as the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on federal corruption charges brought the latest and most luscious of scandals to the teeth of the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, questions were swirling about their futures.
How long can the smaller Sun-Times survive as its parent, Sun-Times Media Group Inc., loses money every quarter? And what of the dominant Tribune, whose parent Tribune Co. sought bankruptcy protection this month because of its crushing $13 billion debt?
Both papers are steeped in history, the Chicago Tribune's most famous single edition trumpeting erroneously in 1948, "Dewey Defeats Truman." The Tribune first published in 1847, while the Sun-Times, formed in a 1948 merger, has its roots in the Chicago Evening Journal in 1844, making it the city's oldest continuously published daily."
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