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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:34pm on Saturday, September 12th, 2009 | The Chicago Tribune announced on September 9, 2009 that David Haugh has been named lead sports columnist, along with Rick Morrissey.
Haugh is the 17th In the Wake of the News columnist in Tribune's history, continuing a tradition that dates to the beginning of the 20th Century. He joins some of Chicago's great journalists, such as Ring Lardner, Dave Condon, Bob Verdi, Bernie Lincicome, John Husar, Skip Bayless, Mike Downey and, since December 2000, Morrissey.
"David and Rick continue a long line of distinctive voices in the sports report of the Chicago Tribune," said Mike Kellams, Associate Managing Editor, Sports. "David is an extraordinary reporter who has the trait every columnist worth their salt possesses: even if you don't agree, you can't stop reading. I look forward to his continued great work in the years to come."
"I am excited to take on this role and to carry on a rich Tribune tradition, while at the same time doing what I love to do. I am honored to have this opportunity," Haugh said.
Currently, Haugh is the Bears columnist at the Chicago Tribune. Haugh came to the Tribune in February 2003 from the South Bend Tribune, where he was a columnist. He is a graduate of Ball State and Northwestern. He resides in Schererville, Indiana, with his wife Allison and son Blair.
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:52pm on Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 | The Tribune Company has sold the Chicago Cubs to the Ricketts family for $845 Million, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on August 22, 2009:
"Tribune Co. at last made it official Friday -- it has sold the Cubs to the Ricketts family.
The company said the deal was for $845 million and has Tribune holding on to a 5 percent ownership stake.
The sale includes Wrigley Field and Tribune's 25 percent interest in Comcast SportsNet Chicago.
The price is among the highest paid for a major sports franchise.
But it also shows the effects of the recession. In 2007, the team was worth an estimated $1 billion.
Closing on the sale still requires consents from Major League Baseball and the federal bankruptcy court. The company said it hopes for court approval early in the fourth quarter of the year.
Tribune is in bankruptcy and negotiating with lenders over a $13 billion debt load. How the proceeds of the Cubs sale will be handled will be decided at future hearings."
The full story:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/1729345,CST-NWS-cubssale22.article
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:12pm on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | The Chicago Tribune is discontinuing weekly publication of Chicago Tribune magazine, the newspaper announced on June 19, 2009:
"The Chicago Tribune said Friday it is discontinuing its weekly Sunday magazine, replacing it as of July 5th with Sunday, a new section that will combine some of the magazine's features and puzzles with content that had been in the paper's Smart and House & Homes sections.
Chicago Tribune Magazine, which traces its roots to 1914's Chicago Tribune Pictorial Weekly and took on its current form on Oct. 4th, 1953, will continue as a series of themed sections published roughly once a month beginning in September. The final weekly edition will come out June 28th.
Gerould Kern, the Chicago Tribune's editor, said in a memo to staff that the change involving the magazine was made "because declining advertising and high costs made weekly publication unsustainable."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 6:40pm on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 | The Chicago Tribune marketing department asked for subscribers' opinions about news stories before they were published, Phil Rosenthal of the Tribune reported on May 1, 2009:
"A short-lived research project in which the Chicago Tribune solicited responses from current and former subscribers to descriptions of Tribune stories before they had been published has been halted after reporters raised journalistic concerns.
Gerould Kern, the Tribune's editor, gathered newsroom staff Thursday to tell them the brief experiment was over and to field their questions a day after a letter signed by dozens of editorial employees alerted him to the unorthodox sharing of unpublished materials.
"We've stopped this," Kern said later. "To prematurely disseminate information about stories in progress compromises reporting. ... There are a lot of reasons, such as potential legal [issues], fairness, accuracy and completeness.
"Reporters raised this question, as they should. Editors responded. We had a conversation about it. We made it clear what our values are. It was an affirmation of what we all believe in this afternoon, even though there was a breakdown and it was unfortunate, and we wish it hadn't happened."
The full story:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-fri_tribunemay01,0,854412.story
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:12pm on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | The Chicago Tribune has fired 53 newsroom staffers, the newspaper reported on April 22, 2009:
"The Chicago Tribune today reduced its newsroom staff, a response to the economic downturn and changes in the media business model.
The exit of 53 editorial employees is part of a paper-wide cost-cutting effort. Tribune Editor Gerould Kern said in a letter to staff that cuts are part of a newsroom reorganization that “will focus us more clearly on our core mission” going forward with a newsgathering team of around 430.
“With today’s actions, we are making the leap to a newsroom structure that we believe is sustainable barring further significant declines in advertising revenue,” Kern wrote. “While some are leaving now, others will join the newsroom over time as we invest in new skills necessary to grow in the future.”
The Chicago Sun-Times and Crain’s Chicago Business last week reported that the Tribune cuts would be far more severe."
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:27pm on Sunday, April 19th, 2009 | The Chicago Tribune is cutting 20% of its newsroom staff, Crain's Chicago Business reported on April 13, 2009:
"The Chicago Tribune plans to cut another 20% of its newsroom staff in yet another bid to reduce expenses amid continuing advertising declines.
Staffers were told of the impending layoffs last week, according to three people who attended a meeting on the topic. The cuts will take place over the next several weeks, the sources said.
The expected cuts are the latest attempt to reduce expenses at the paper, whose parent Tribune Co. filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors in December."
Read the full story:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33660&seenIt=1
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:37pm on Saturday, March 28th, 2009 | The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times will combine their international coverage.
On March 24, 2009, Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune reported that the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times are forming an "international cooperative:"
"The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times are consolidating their international reporting operations into a single unit, serving all Tribune Co. newspapers in the fashion of the company’s recently unified Washington bureau.
Both newspapers “have rich traditions in foreign reporting reaching back more than a century,” Chicago Tribune Editor Gerould W. Kern said Tuesday in a memo to staff about the new arrangement, which he developed with Los Angeles Times Editor Russ Stanton. “This new association will uphold that legacy.”
The precise scope of the cooperative, to be run from Los Angeles, was not specified in terms of personnel and locales.
Kern’s note said correspondents, including some from the Chicago Tribune, would be “placed strategically around the globe,” and those from the Tribune currently abroad but not included in the new set-up would be offered positions back in Chicago."
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:46pm on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | On January 19, 2009, Mark Fitzgerald of Editor & Publisher magazine (the leading trade publication for the newspaper industry) gave his first impressions of the new tabloid version of the Chicago Tribune:
"With its very first tabloid edition launched Monday, the Chicago Tribune eloquently makes the argument that it's time America's big-city dailies seriously consider converting to a compact format.
The Tribune is the first big paper to make the transition to tabloid, and it's not going all the way. The "To-Go Edition," as the paper calls its tab version, is only for single-copy sales. Home delivery subscribers on Monday received the broadsheet they will continue to get.
Subscribers are now getting the second-best paper.
The Tribune's tabloid is organized better than its broadsheet version, which was redesigned in late September. The news/ad mix is undoubtedly the same 50/50 split Tribune Co. dailies moved to over the summer. But in the tab the news content doesn't seem like an afterthought as it often looks in the broadsheet, where ads can appear to dominate editorial.
The Tribune's mix of alternative story-telling methods -- charticles, maps, annotated numbers -- with traditional reporting occasionally seems awkward and unfocused in the broadsheet. Filling up a tabloid page, though, the alternatives fulfill their purpose."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:41pm on Monday, January 19th, 2009 | January 19, 2009: Starting today, the Chicago Tribune is printing two versions of the newspaper. The new version is a tabloid edition for newsstand sales. The paper will keep its traditional broadsheet format for home-delivery subscribers. Each version will carry essentially the same stories, and the price is unchanged at 75 cents.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:00pm on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | On December 9, 2008, the New York Times reported that the governor of Illinois wanted some Chicago Tribune reporters to be fired:
As if the Tribune Company did not have enough problems, a day after the company filed for bankruptcy protection, federal law enforcment officials said on Tuesday that the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, had been illegally threatening to withhold the state’s help in a business deal, unless the Chicago Tribune newspaper fired editorial writers who had criticized the governor and called for his impeachment.
The writers were not fired, the editorial page continued to take on the governor, Tribune editors said Tuesday that they were not aware of any pressure from the governor’s office, and the company said it did not do the governor’s bidding.
But conversations recorded by federal investigators, and excerpted in a criminal complaint filed on Tuesday by the United States attorney’s office for the Northern District of Illinois, suggest that for a few weeks, Mr. Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, believed that Tribune would give in to their demands.
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