The Trib’s Secret Project
The thing that this doesn’t let go of is the idea that we want a portmanteau publication with a little bit of everything in it. A Life magazine, a Sears catalog. But that’s not where the world has gone. Instead of Sears where you can go to one store to get everything, you have the mall where you can go to 100 stores to get everything. The real innovation will come when the newspaper realizes that it’s a content creation collective which can take many final forms. Put out a sports publication, put out a politics publication, put out arts and food and lifestyle publications; draw on the same staff, use each to cross-sell the others, but recognize that the reader’s mentality is no longer that I wanted every subject pushed through the sausage grinder of the same editorial staff and made to fit the same format in the same way. —Michael Gebert
As for Chicago Live “bringing the hottest stories . . . in Chicago to the stage” what are we talking about? Tap dancing obits? Musical box scores? Or perhaps bringing in Louis Black for a dramatic reading of the Blago tapes . . . actually, that might work. —DeBartolo
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The Guardian is Mon-Sat. It’s the Observer that’s essentially the Sunday edition of the Guardian. —redlion
Ben, the reason Sunny’s termination letter wasn’t signed by a person is because the person who used to sign the letters, Nancy Slavin, was herself terminated. You can’t make this stuff up! It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. —CTUCarol
Look, I hope the teacher finds a job really quickly. I have read and heard about this poor teacher alot over the last few weeks and if she’s as good a teacher as she is a media darling, then she’ll make someone a wonderful Art teacher. But some perspective and balance please. . . .
