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Chicago Tribune newsroom seeking to unionize

Post-Bulletin 12 Apr 2018

CHICAGO — A group of employees is seeking to form a union in the Chicago Tribune’s newsroom, in what would be a historic move at the 171-year-old newspaper. Organizers notified editors and sent a recruitment memo to staffers Wednesday, urging them to join the effort to form the paper’s first newsroom union ... Owner Joe Ricketts abruptly shut down DNAinfo and Gothamist sites across the country, including DNAinfo Chicago and Chicagoist ... ....

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Staff at Chicago-based humor site The Onion to unionize

Herald and News 01 Apr 2018

CHICAGO (TNS) — Employees of Chicago-based humor website The Onion and its sister publications Thursday announced plans to unionize in a bid to preserve a unique workplace culture and their jobs ... Club, satire site ClickHole and Onion Labs, an in-house advertising agency ... Club ... Club ... Owner Joe Ricketts abruptly shut down DNAinfo and Gothamist sites across the country, including DNAinfo Chicago and Chicagoist ... .......

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Gothamist news sites brought back to life by public radio

The Daily Journal 24 Feb 2018

Public radio stations WNYC in New York, KPCC in Los Angeles, and WAMU in Washington announced the purchase Friday. They said that the acquisition was funded largely through two anonymous donors and stations partners ... The deal also gives the public radio stations control over story archives, internet domains and social media sites from DNAinfo, as well as Chicagoist and SFist in San Francisco ... ....

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AP Briefs

Santa Monica Daily Press 24 Feb 2018

NEW YORK. Gothamist news sites brought back to life by public radio ... Public radio stations WNYC in New York, KPCC in Los Angeles, and WAMU in Washington announced the purchase Friday ... Terms of the deal were not disclosed ... The deal also gives the public radio stations control over story archives, internet domains and social media sites from DNAinfo, as well as Chicagoist and SFist in San Francisco ... Associated Press. LOS ANGELES ... to 8 a.m ... ....

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HuffPost: “We Really LOVED Your Contributions, Now FUCK OFF!”

CounterPunch 22 Jan 2018

The email was pure sophistry ... Ummm, didn’t we just lose DNAinfo and Chicagoist, not to mention that little thing called Net Neutrality? Years before that, the indy media network? Aren’t the overwhelming majority of local print publications going under because they can’t successfully institute pay-walls like a handful of the majors such as the New York Times and Washington Post? ... wars abroad and instituting healthcare for all....

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Local Reporting Really Is the First Draft of History

Village Voice 07 Nov 2017

I’m a geography Ph.D ... This was an issue I followed closely when I lived in Elmhurst and was a minor participant in the fight ... The most accurate and diligent reporting on Tax Increment Financing” — a public finance scheme premised on rising property values, much like the one Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to employ for the Brooklyn-Queens Connector waterfront streetcar — “within Chicago has come from the staff at DNAinfo and Chicagoist ... ....

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What's the Best Thing Local Publications Like DNAinfo Have Done For Your City?

CityLab 06 Nov 2017

CEO Joe Ricketts, who started DNAinfo in 2009 and bought Gothamist and its network of sites (Chicagoist, LAist, SFist, DCist, and Shanghaiist) in March 2017, announced the closure a week after the staff voted to unionize, in a statement that read ... — Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) November 3, 2017 Deeply disappointed at the decision to shut down DNAinfo and Chicagoist, which provided valuable reporting for Chicago's neighborhoods....

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Everyone Should Fear What Happened to the Gothamist Sites

CityLab 06 Nov 2017

Four days ago, while on my lunch break, I lost my job as editor-in-chief at LAist. I’d just finished a bowl of unmemorable office cafeteria chili and was sitting in the lobby of our WeWork when a coworker in New York sent me a three-word text ... Instead, the entire site—which had been in operation for more than a decade—had disappeared ... Gothamist, LAist, Chicagoist, DCist and SFist each fulfilled critical roles in their cities ... ....

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News workers unionized. Days later, they were jobless. Was it payback?

Yahoo Daily News 04 Nov 2017

A billionaire’s decision last week to shutter the news sites Gothamist and DNAInfo, just a week after employees voted to unionise, seemed to mark another low for unions in online media age. Owner Joe Ricketts seemed to be making good on threats to pull the plug on his publications if workers joined a union ... Schwarz added ... Aaron Cynic, a writer with Chicagoist, said he was fully supportive of the New York employees’ decision to unionize....

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Popular news sites Gothamist, DNAinfo shut down abruptly

Journal Review 03 Nov 2017

Ricketts bought Gothamist earlier this year ... It had a lively comments section and sister sites such as SFist in San Francisco, Chicagoist and LAist in Los Angeles ... ....

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Lab Report: Where Uber Is Actually Getting Good News

CityLab 03 Nov 2017

Uber’s good news. In Uber’s troubled relationship with Europe, one area has emerged as a rare bright spot. the Baltic nations ... New Orleans’ first female mayor ... The owner of the DNAInfo and the Gothamist network of local news websites—which includes DCist, Chicagoist, among several other city “ists”—shut down operations on all sites Thursday, a week after the New York newsroom voted to unionize. ( New York Times ) Living room concerts ... . ....

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Gothamist, DNAinfo blogs abruptly shut down after union vote

North Jersey 03 Nov 2017

NEW YORK (AP) — Two popular New York City news sites and their satellites in Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere were shut down a week after their New York staffs voted to unionize ... "Businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure," he said ... Ricketts also is the owner of the Chicago Cubs ... It had a lively comments section and sister sites such as SFist in San Francisco, Chicagoist and LAist in Los Angeles ... ....

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Gothamist, DNAinfo shut down abruptly after workers vote to unionize

The Mercury News 03 Nov 2017

NEW YORK — Two popular New York City news sites and their satellites in Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere were shut down a week after their New York staffs voted to unionize ... “Businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure,” he said ... It had a lively comments section and sister sites such as SFist in San Francisco, Chicagoist and LAist in Los Angeles ... ....

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