The Chicago Tribune Is Being Murdered Before Our Eyes

And it’s a serial killing

Cory Doctorow
GEN
Published in
9 min readOct 16, 2021

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Last May, the profitable Chicago Tribune was acquired by the notorious vulture firm Alden Global Capital. They suffered waves of downsizing, including a sell-off of the iconic Tribute Building. Today, a skeleton crew puts out the Trib from “a newsroom the size of a Chipotle.”

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Cory Doctorow
GEN
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