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  • July 2008

    • Chicago Tribune Editor Resigns Amid Cutbacks

      Associated Press  |  Jul 14, 08 3:58 PM CDT

      Chicago Tribune Editor Resigns Amid Cutbacks

      (AP) - Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski handed in her resignation today after 7 years in the top post at the Tribune Company's flagship paper. Lipinski's departure comes a week after the 161-year-old newspaper told its staff it would eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs amid a broad effort to cut costs as advertising and circulation revenues decline at its newspapers nationwide. More »

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      newspaper  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell  • Los Angeles Times  • Chicago Tribune  • editor  • Baltimore Sun

  • January 2008

    • 'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

      Washington Post  |  Jan 16, 08 1:25 PM CST

      'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

      (Newser) - The portrayal of battered, prize-grubbing  and unscrupulous journalists in HBO's “The Wire”—based loosely on creator David Simon’s years at the downsizing Baltimore Sun —has provoked a furious internet outcry from some former colleagues who can't help but recognize themselves, the Washington Post reports. One highly regarded top editor dragged through the maybe-not-so-fictional muck calls Simon “a very angry guy"; another resents "Simon's dishonest efforts to revise history." More »

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      HBO  • The Wire  • Baltimore Sun  • newsrooms  • David Simon

    • Critics Love Wire 's Media Turn

      Washington Post  |  Jan 6, 08 4:32 PM CST

      Critics Love Wire 's Media Turn

      (Newser) - Entering its last season, HBO's urban drama The Wire "succeeds strikingly at getting what's wrong just right," Tom Shales writes in the Washington Post . “Written and acted to the highest standards of the best TV drama,” the show has dealt with drugs, job loss, and school troubles, and now explores the trials of a major newspaper. More »

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      entertainment  • HBO  • reviews  • TV shows  • The Wire  • Baltimore Sun

  • October 2007

    • Wire's Architect Begins His Final Chapter

      New Yorker  |  Oct 15, 07 8:22 PM CDT

      Wire's Architect Begins His Final Chapter

      (Newser) - The final season of HBO critical darling The Wire lands in January, and will revolve around the newsroom—the last unscripted setting from creator David Simon’s own experience. The show has tackled drug runners, cops, dockworkers, and inner-city schoolchildren “with sociological precision,” reports New Yorker ’s Margaret Talbot, and will close with the onetime Sun reporter’s old haunts. More »

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      crime  • HBO  • Baltimore  • Baltimore Sun  • newsrooms  • David Simon

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