Categories: OLD Media Moves

New Sun-Times biz publication is coming

Robert Feder of Time Out Chicago writes Wednesday about the new business publication coming from the Chicago Sun-Times and its parent company Wrapports LLC.

Feder writes, “Starting this Sunday, Sun-Times readers will find a new addition to the paper — a weekly business magazine called Grid. Advertisers who’ve seen prototypes say it’s focused on stories about and for people in business in Chicago. The cover features Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz, an investor in Wrapports.

“Those who’ve seen it also say it appears to be aimed at a younger audience than Crain’s Chicago Business, which buried news of the competing project at the end of a report Monday about possible layoffs looming at Sun-Times Media.

“Insiders at Crain’s have been bracing for a challenge to their franchise ever since Ferro hired Jim Kirk, former chief of editorial operations at Crain’s and former business editor of the Chicago Tribune, as editor-in-chief of Sun-Times Media. Overseeing development of the new section is Brandon Copple, a former managing editor of Crain’s, who joined Wrapports as general manager last October.

“Grid will be the second new Sunday supplement launched by the Sun-Times in recent months. In September, the paper unveiled Splash, a weekly magazine section focusing on ‘style, society and celebrities’ and featuring Jenny McCarthy as an advice columnist.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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