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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 Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media, [3] and has long held the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the Chicago Tribune.
Winner of eight Pulitzer Prizes, the Chicago Sun-Times was founded in 1948 through a merger of the Chicago Sun and the Daily Times. It’s known for hard-hitting investigative reporting, in-depth ...
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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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Jan 31, 2022 · Chicago Public Media and the Chicago Sun-Times have made their partnership official Monday, creating one of the largest non-profit news organizations in the country, with pledges of $61...
- Claudia Morell
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Jan 31, 2022 · Chicago Public Media closed its acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times today. The organization has raised $61 million to finance the no-cash deal and invest in the newspaper.
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Jan 19, 2022 · In Chicago, a public radio station comes to the rescue of the Sun-Times newspaper WBEZ is set to acquire the tabloid and bring it under nonprofit ownership -- in what could prove a model for...
