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ChicagoNow - Wikipedia

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ChicagoNow
ChicagoNow logo
Type of site	Blogging site
Available in	English
Dissolved	August 18, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-08-18)
Owner	Tribune Publishing
URL	www.chicagonow.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	August 2009; 15 years ago (2009-08)

ChicagoNow^[1] was a blogging site managed by Tribune Publishing, owner of the print Chicago Tribune newspaper. It featured a network of blogs of international, national, and local interest on a variety of topics ranging from crime to public schools to politics and diplomacy.^[2]

Notable ChicagoNow contributors included the staff of the Chicago Reporter,^[3] and Shimer College president Susan Henking.^[4]

On August 18, 2022, the site was shut down with no announcement.^[5]

History

ChicagoNow was launched in August 2009.^[6]^[7] Its launch coincided with the Tribune company's bankruptcy.^[8] As a newspaper-run blogging community, with the initial tagline "a blog by and for locals", it represented what one observer called "a new value proposition for newspapers".^[8]

ChicagoNow used Movable Type as its blogging platform when it first launched, then switched to WordPress in 2011.^[9]

The website of the Tribune daily RedEye was initially hosted on ChicagoNow but later moved to its own domain.^[10]

After the acquisition of the Tribune by Alden Global Capital, ChicagoNow was shut down without warning on August 18, 2022.^[5]

Reception

In April 2010, the World Editors Forum described ChicagoNow as a "hyperlocal blog network" that has "a personal quality that many larger newspapers lack."^[11]

In September 2010, Time Out Chicago criticized ChicagoNow for hosting an unidentified police officer in what they called "a hate-filled, racist rant by blogger Joe the Cop entitled 'The ghetto shooting template' for three days and counting now."^[12] ChicagoNow removed the posts in question, stating that while they don't edit posts, they reserve the right to remove them.^[13]

References

^ "ChicagoNow". www.chicagonow.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
^ Rao, Leena (April 24, 2010). "The Tribune Company Finds An Audience For Homegrown Hyperlocal News Site ChicagoNow". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
^ "About | Chicago Muckrakers". ChicagoNow. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
^ "About Shimer Prez". ChicagoNow. Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
^ ^a ^b Kaufmann, Justine (August 25, 2022). "ChicagoNow is now Chicago history after Tribune shuts down blog network". Axios. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
^ "About ChicagoNow". ChicagoNow. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
^ Tribune Media Group, "Reach and Engage Chicago's Blogging Community" Archived January 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b Rachel Davis Mersey (2010). Can Journalism be Saved?: Rediscovering America's Appetite for News. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-0313392085.
^ "Welcome to ChicagoNow 2.0". ChicagoNow. June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
^ "RedEye | ChicagoNow". Archived from the original on December 18, 2009.
^ Jaffe, Alexandra (April 26, 2010). "ChicagoNow offers hope for hyperlocal news sites". World Editors Forum. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
^ Sennett, Frank (September 23, 2010). "Trib's ChicagoNow hosts cop's racist rant three days and counting". Time Out Chicago. Archived from the original on September 26, 2010. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
^ "Why we removed 2 Arresting Tales posts". ChicagoNow Staff Blog. September 23, 2010. Retrieved February 25, 2012.

External links

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Ownership and parent company	Alden Global Capital
Chicago Tribune Media Group	Chicago Tribune Chicago ChicagoNow (defunct) Daily Southtown Forsalebyowner.com Hoy Lake County News-Sun Metromix (defunct) Naperville Sun Pioneer Press Post-Tribune RedEye
Daily Press Media Group	Daily Press The Virginia Gazette
Hartford Courant Media	Hartford Courant CTNow ReminderNews
Morning Call Media Group	The Morning Call
Orlando Sentinel Media Group	Orlando Sentinel El Sentinel
Pilot Media	The Virginian-Pilot Inside Business Style Weekly
Sun-Sentinel Media Group	Sun Sentinel El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida
Spanfeller Media Group	The Daily Meal
Other assets	Tribune Content Agency

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