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Feb 1, 2022 · The Sun-Times will become a subsidiary of CPM, but the two newsrooms will maintain editorial independence. CPM CEO Matt Moog and Sun-Times CEO Nykia Wright will stay in leadership positions, with Wright reporting to Moog.
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As millions of immigrant workers entered the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, leftist organizations and unions founded their own newspapers to air perspectives ignored by the outlets under control of Hearst, Pulitzer and the other press barons of the day. The most successful example: Der Forverts, a Yiddish language socialist daily k...
The largest of these unions, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union(ILGWU), also published their own media dedicated to correcting what they called the “misrepresentation and misunderstanding, and often unfounded accusation” the commercial press levied against them. As the lead editori...
Although the U.S. and its allies emerged from World War I as victors, fear of communism – known as the “Red Scare” – spread in response to Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution. There was a crackdown on working-class and immigrant movements. Many U.S. radical and foreign-language papers closed. The Forward, however, thrived. It came to rely increasingly on...
As the garment workers organized beyond New York, they brought their emphasis on media to other cities, including Chicago. In a precedent for the Sun-Times purchase, garment workers in the Chicago Federation of Labor developed programs for and gave financial support to the federation’s own radio station, WCFL. As historian Nathan Godfried demonstra...
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Sep 30, 2021 · The Chicago Sun-Times, once home to the film critic Roger Ebert and the columnist Mike Royko, and Chicago Public Media, the owner of the city’s National Public Radio affiliate, WBEZ, announced on...
Jan 31, 2022 · Chicago Public Media, which owns WBEZ, the local NPR affiliate, announced Monday, Jan. 31, 2022 it completed a deal to buy the Chicago Sun-Times, the punchy tabloid with roots that stretch back to the mid-19th century.
The Lake County News-Sun is a regional newspaper based in Gurnee, Illinois, United States, that predominantly covers news for Lake County, Illinois, a part of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is currently owned by the Chicago Tribune Media Group, which publishes several other Chicago regional newspapers, including the Pioneer Press.
Jul 23, 2017 · Along with Mr. Eisendrath, the new ownership of The Sun-Times includes several private investors and the Chicago Federation of Labor, an umbrella organization whose president is Mr. Ramirez.
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Jan 19, 2022 · The Chicago Public Media Board of Directors (CPM), which runs public radio station WBEZ, voted on Tuesday to acquire the Chicago Sun-Times. Driving the news: The deal was a "no cash acquisition," according to the current Sun-Times investors.
