There's gonna be a lot of people out of a job in town. I would be shocked if they keep this a two newspaper city as well. I really thought Shaw was going to end up getting the Sun-Times.

Even if they print 2 papers (as the Sun Times taboid is best suited for commuters) you think they'd just condense the Tribune for that 2nd published paper and not keep 2 staffs of writers

They will only keep the best of the best from both papers. They'll use this as a reason to weed out the garden at the Trib filling those slots with the Sun-Times people they want to retain.

https://youtu.be/fqKLpBV6VhY

The Tribune pulled the Red Eye already. Print is beyond dead, and there is no model that supports newspapers like display advertising. It will be interesting to see what tech has done to our brains in a generation.

I've been out of the newspaper business since 1997. Even back then systematic cutbacks were on the increase and personnel leaving were rarely or never replaced. Thus adding to the workload of surviving employees and increasing stress to the already stressful occupation. I can't imagine how much it has sucked in the last few years. Good luck to these guys who might be displaced.

97 was still the boom years. 2000 was the most profitable year ever for newspapers. Needed a 20 percent margin was the beginning of trouble, but the Internet took them out. Think a non-profit model might work best for news anyway.