March 17 at 1:20 p.m.
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By Tower Ticker
The Chicago Sun Times building at 350 N.Orleans Street. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)
A day after the death of Sun-Times Media Chairman James Tyree, who led the effort to save the local media company from liquidation 17 months ago, the company’s flagship Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday laid off several newsroom employees.
“That was something that had been planned for a while. It certainly had nothing to do with yesterday’s news,” said Jeremy Halbreich, Sun-Times Media’s chief executive .
Sources said they believed the reduction affected four staff members, but Halbreich did not confirm an exact figure. The cuts, he said, were part of an ongoing effort to centralize certain operations among the company’s many area publications.
March 8 at 2:53 p.m.
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By Becky Yerak
Mesirow Financial Chief Executive James Tyree, who has been battling cancer, was recently hospitalized with pneumonia.
“They are treating his infection and he’s feeling stronger every day,” Mesirow President Richard Price said in an e-mail to workers Tuesday. “Doctors generally expect some side-effects and complications during an aggressive chemotherapy regimen.”
Tyree, who also heads Sun Times Media, had suffered from diabetes for years and had a transplant operation a few years ago. Get the full story »
Jan. 26 at 4:41 p.m.
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By Becky Yerak
James Tyree, the Mesirow Financial chief executive who was diagnosed with stomach cancer in October four years after undergoing kidney and pancreas transplants, told employees of his Chicago-based financial services firm on Wednesday that thanks to chemotherapy “the cancer has not spread, and it is shrinking.”
Tyree, also chairman and owner of Sun-Times Media, suffered from Type 1 diabetes for 25 years, and in late 2006 had a kidney and pancreas transplant that he said essentially cured the diabetes. He has also had four eye surgeries and a defibrillator implanted in his chest. Get the full story »
Jan. 14 at 2:09 p.m.
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By Phil Rosenthal
Tower Ticker | Sun-Times Media’s Pioneer Press group of weekly suburban newspapers has continued to reduce its workforce, including elimination of nine editorial positions in recent days.
Eight newsroom staff members were let go, while another retired and will not be replaced, sources said. Five were reporters and the retiree was an editorial assistant. The others were said to include page designers and a Web content manager.
Jeremy Halbreich, chief executive and vice chairman of Sun-Times Media, was unavailable for immediate comment.
Jan. 13 at 4:14 p.m.
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By Chicago Breaking News
Conrad Black, the wealthy Canadian native who was chairman of a Chicago-based newspaper empire, will be resentenced in June on two counts that survived an appellate court’s review of his 2007 fraud conviction, a federal judge decided today.
Jan. 4 at 6:00 p.m.
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From News & Tech | Sun-Times Media announced on Tuesday the creation of a new business operation called STM Digital, which will have responsibility for all Sun-Times Media online, mobile and other digital content publication and advertising businesses.
Nov. 11, 2010 at 4:25 p.m.
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By Phil Rosenthal
Sun-Times Media plans to discontinue its 11 free weekly suburban Sun newspapers by the end of the year, employees and advertisers have been told.
Nov. 11, 2010 at 2:46 p.m.
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Crain’s Chicago Business | Sun-Times Media is shutting down 11 weekly Sun newspapers — in Geneva, Bolingbrook, Homer Glen, Lisle, Glen Ellyn, Plainfield, Wheaton, Downers Grove, Batavia, Fox Valley and the Lincoln-Way area — though it plans to absorb as many of the employees as possible.
