Last week, Dan Scully announced he is resigning as president of Boston Magazine. Despite stepping down as president, he will stay with the magazine as a senior publishing consultant. Former Chicago Magazine publisher, Randy Hano, will replace Scully as president. Folio (July 24, 2008)
The Chicago Tribune informed its staff yesterday that it will be eliminating around 80 of its current 578 newsroom positions by the end of August, as well as reducing the number of pages it publishes by 13 or 14 percent each week. The paper is also planning to redesign the look of its paper, with [...]
Bob Gremillion has been named interim publisher for the Chicago Tribune. Gremillion expects to hold the job for a couple of months maximum and said that he would decline a permanent job if offered. E and P (June 29, 2008)
The Huffington Post is planning on expanding into local news across the country, starting with a site dedicated to the city of Chicago. This Chicago site would aggregate news from a number of local sources with the longterm plan being to copy this formula for dozens of other cities in the near future. Guardian
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After only 8 issues, McGraw Hill Cos. is pulling the plug on BusinessWeek Chicago due to its extremely slow ad sales. The magazine was supposed to be the first of a series of city-based supplements to the national magazine but because of BusinessWeek Chicago’s lack of success, that plan has been scrapped. Chicago Business (June [...]
Tribune Company newspapers, namely the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, will be printing fewer newspapers and employing fewer journalists according to Samuel Zell, the chairman and chief executive of the company. The goal of the company is to have a 50/50 split between news and advertisements, thus eliminating over 500 pages a week across [...]
With eleven superstores in the Chicago metro area, Meijer is looking to eat into the market share of Windy City stalwarts Dominicks and Jewel. Meijer’s new campaign is anchored by three television commercials with the tagline, “Higher standards. Lower prices.” Progressive Grocer (Apr. 7, 2008)�