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Sun-Times loses Telander, Potash, Morrissey, Sneed, more.

Posted by Media Reader <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=Media+Reader' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 19, 2025, 12:39 pm

Sun-Times cuts staff 20% including:
Rick Telander, Lorraine Forte, Tom Frisbie, Marlen Garcia, Rick Morrissey, Ismael Perez, Mark Potash, Daryl Van Schouwen, Michael Sneed.

"Chicago Sun-Times to lose 20% of staff after buyout offer"

Columnists, editorial writers and many more head for the exits as the paper’s nonprofit owner, Chicago Public Media, deals with fiscal hardship.

By David Roeder
Mar 18, 2025

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Link: Sun-Times

Re: Sun-Times loses Telander, Potash, Morrissey, Sneed, more.

Posted by ABRockNJock <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=ABRockNJock' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 19, 2025, 1:19 pm, in reply to "Sun-Times loses Telander, Potash, Morrissey, Sneed, more."

Richard Roeper, longtime Sun-Times' columnist & film critic dating back some 37 years, is also accepting a buyout.

Makes me think about something I saw Jon Wertheim report on "60 Minutes" a while back:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/local-news-financial-firms-60-minutes-2022-06-12/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

Re: Sun-Times loses Telander, Potash, Morrissey, Sneed, more.

Posted by JJSPC1372 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=JJSPC1372' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 21, 2025, 8:21 pm, in reply to "Re: Sun-Times loses Telander, Potash, Morrissey, Sneed, more."

Maybe it's time to just throw in the towel and fold the paper.

Re: Sun-Times loses Telander, Potash, Morrissey, Sneed, more.

Posted by WYTZZ95FM <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=WYTZZ95FM' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 22, 2025, 10:44 am, in reply to "Re: Sun-Times loses Telander, Potash, Morrissey, Sneed, more."

Bad management. With good leadership and forward vision, along with modernizing because the print and news reporting is changing, it could work. There is a lot of synergy to be had between NPR/WBEZ and the ST. But the ST of the past we knew, like terrestrial radio, is gone.

Z

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