The Chicago News Cooperative (CNC), which launched last week, is not, singlehandedly, going to reverse that decline. It is a start-up, and many major tests are still to come. But as CNC’s press release declared, it is committed to providing “high quality, professionally edited news and commentary to the Chicago region on the Web, in print and over the airwaves.” The cooperative begins with the backing of Window to the World Communication, the parent of WTTW 11, Chicago’s public television station, and on November 20, it will start providing two pages of news twice a week to the New York Times for its edition distributed in Chicago and the region. The editor of CNC, James O’Shea, is recruiting a staff whose work will begin appearing immediately in probably the most prestigious newspaper in the world. Good luck, Jim.
The Chicago News Cooperative (CNC)
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