Romenesko Memos
Editor
Ann Marie Lipinski tells her staff: "We will close the New City News Service ... take WomanNews from a stand-alone section to a weekly chapter of Tempo; eliminate some of our periodic Features special sections; scale back staffing and coverage in our Business features sections; eliminate two photo positions associated with some of that content; and reduce some research and support staff functions. A net of 28 positions related to this work is being eliminated by the end of the year."
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"For many of us, City News was more than just a place to work," writes
Ellen Warren. "It was, indeed, family -- dysfunctional, maddening, scary. We worked Christmas and Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve together and then spent much of our off-duty time together too, often drinking too much, chain smoking and complaining about…City News."
(Chicago Tribune)
