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NEWS OF THE CHICAGO GUILD

Local investment banker putting together bid for Sun-Times Media Group

Editor & Publisher - 05 May 2009

James Tyree, chairman of the Chicago-based investment bank Mesirow Financial Holdings, confirmed Monday he is assembling a group to bid on bankrupt Sun-Times Media Group.

Chicago Tribune admits 'breach'

Chicago Tribune halts project that let readers view unpublished story outlines

Phil Rosenthal - The Chicago Tribune - 01 May 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.

IFJ condemns failure to find Politkovskaya's killers

The International Federation of Journalists - 22 Feb 2009

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has backed furious Russian journalists in their response to the failure of the Russian judicial system to prosecute the killers of Anna Politkovskaya following the acquittal of all three defendants at her trial earlier today.


NEWS OF SUN-TIMES MEDIA GROUP

Strupp: My top 10 newspaper biz stories 2009

Joe Strupp - Editor & Publisher - 18 Dec 2009

Another year of changes for the newspaper industry, not to mention E&P. We saw mobile sprint forward, print decrease, employees give back, and some familiar faces depart. Still, the news is being delivered and the newsrooms continue to hum, in most places, even at reduced volume.

Sun-Times sale to Tyree group complete

David Roeder - The Chicago Sun Times - 27 Oct 2009

The sale of the parent company of the Chicago Sun-Times was completed Monday, as a local group of investors led by investment banker James Tyree became the newspaper's new owners.

Sun-Times staffers welcome sale to 'a Chicago guy'

Joe Strupp - Editor & Publisher - 09 Oct 2009

Newsroom staffers at the Chicago Sun-Times welcomed today's announcement that the paper's sale to a local owner would be approved, although most regretted the givebacks needed to make it possible.


NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY

The price of debt: McClatchy stock tumbles on steep bond interest rate

The Associated Press - 06 Feb 2010

McClatchy Co. shares tumbled Friday along with the broader market after the newspaper publisher agreed to pay steep interest rates to push back its deadline for repaying debt.

Report: N.Y. Times execs met quietly with Steve Jobs about iPad

Editor & Publisher - 06 Feb 2010

Some 50 top executives of The New York Times, including Publisher and Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. met earlier this week in a New York restaurant with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who demonstrated the iPad and talked it up as "the future of media," according to a report by Daniel Maurer on New York magazine's Web site.

Arbitrator sides with former News-Press editor

The Associated Press - 06 Feb 2010

An arbitrator has rejected the Santa Barbara News-Press' $25 million claim against its former editor and ordered the newspaper's owner to pay more than $900,000 in fees stemming from their dispute.

Seattle Times Co. renegotiates debt

Editor & Publisher - 06 Feb 2010

The Seattle Times Co. has renegotiated its debt, giving the publisher increased ability to continue publishing "high quality, independent journalism," as the company indicated in a letter updating its readers on its financial status.

Journos aren't helpless against market forces

Alan D. Mutter - Reflections of a Newsosaur - 05 Feb 2010

Without question, there never has been a bigger response to this blog than the one that greeted the piece the other day encouraging journalists to demand to be paid decently for their work.

Google News to publishers: Let's make love not war

Mark Glaser - Mediashift - 05 Feb 2010

In the view of some traditional media execs, Google is a digital vampire or a parasite or tech tapeworm using someone else's content to profit. As that rhetoric heated up in the past year, Google has responded not with equal amounts of invective but with entreaties to help publishers.

Monster's HotJobs deal shuts 200 papers out of Yahoo newspaper consortium

Jennifer Saba - Editor & Publisher - 04 Feb 2010

Monster Worldwide's agreed acquisition of Yahoo's recruitment platform HotJobs means as many as 200 papers will be shut out of of the Yahoo newspaper consortium (NPC).

Arthur and the Blue People

Ken Doctor - Content Bridges - 04 Feb 2010

As if the New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger and Janet Robinson didn't have enough headaches, trying to figure out how to fend off that other daily beast known as the Wall Street Journal. Until December, 2007, when Rupert Murdoch pulled off the coup of his lifetime, cajoling, wheedling and finally hard-lining just enough of the Bancroft family into selling the prize Journal to him, the Journal had been a national business daily -- not the Times' direct competition.

Newspaper Web site traffic slipped in Q4

Jennifer Saba - Editor & Publisher - 03 Feb 2010

Newspaper Web site traffic is falling month-over-month, according to new figures provided by the Newspaper Association of America. The association today published the latest Q4 data for newspaper Web sites provided by Nielsen Online. The number of unique users declined when comparing October (73.2 million uniques) to November (72.3 million uniques) to December (70.3 million uniques).


Carl Nolte

13 years later, Herb Caen's voice is missed

Carl Nolte - The San Francisco Chronicle - 02 Feb 2010

Tomorrow is the first of February, an important day in the history of San Francisco. It will be 13 years exactly since Herb Caen died. Old San Franciscans revere Caen. A lot of new San Franciscans never heard of him. For the record, he was a newspaper columnist in this town for 58 years, longer than anybody. He was the uncrowned prince of San Francisco, a magic city of his own invention.

Gannett's 4Q improves as cost cuts offset ad woes

Michael Liedtke - The Associated Press - 02 Feb 2010

Gannett Co. posted its largest profit of the year in the fourth quarter as cost-cutting efforts were aided by a lessening decline in advertising sales. But shares of the biggest U.S. newspaper publisher tumbled after company executives didn't offer any hope for an upturn in newspaper advertising this year.

Associated Press strikes deal with Yahoo

Michael Liedtke - The Associated Press - 02 Feb 2010

The Associated Press has signed a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc. that gives the news cooperative a steady stream of revenue at a time less money is flowing in from newspapers and broadcasters.

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