Starting Friday 20, The New York Times will attempt to give the Chicago Tribune a run for its money, publishing two pages of Chicago content twice a week, generated by local start-up Chicago News Cooperative (CNC). Over the past several weeks, the CNC, which was founded by former Tribune managing editor James O’Shea, has lured some staffers out of Trib Tower, including big gets like City Hall reporter Dan Mihalopoulos and business columnist David Greising. Sitting on the CNC board is former Trib top editor Ann Marie Lipinski. My favorite line critiquing this curious amount of Trib recruits came from Gawker: “New York Times Hires Gang Who Killed Chicago Tribune to Kill Tribune.” NYT editor Jim Schachter has the task of ensuring that “The Times’s standards of excellence are maintained” at the CNC, his paper announced this week. Good luck, Jim.
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I think this development might actually be good for the city. I would be interested in seeing either the Sun-Times or the Tribune fold and then the two merge. A strong single Chicago-based paper and the resolute gray lady would help raise the bar vis-a-vis the truly dismal local reportage. I’m L.A.-based but spent the summer months reading the Tribune daily… barf. So poorly written (and often crypto-anti-semitic)! In any event, kudos to the expanding market and the invisible hand.
The return of the Medill Mafia. No thanks.