Chicago Sun-Times Releases 24-Hour News Wire
The Chicago Sun-Times is releasing a 24-hour news wire slated to begin on Monday.
Editor-in-chief of the Sun-Times said that the STNG Wire (acronym of Sun-Times news Group), “will be a service very much like the City News Service of old.”
About 10 people have been hired to run the service, including some staffers from both recent and older incarnations of City News, Barron said.
STNG also will rely on help from Sun-Times staffers and from its sister newspapers. The Sun-Times News Group publishes about 100 papers in the Chicago area.
City News sent out its final dispatch at 11:29 p.m. on Dec. 31. The Chicago Tribune, which owned City News since 1999, eliminated the service and its 19 jobs to cut costs and to stop serving up news to the Tribune’s online and broadcast competitors.
City News’ predecessor, the City News Bureau, was founded in 1890 and was a training ground for generations of journalists, including Mike Royko, author Kurt Vonnegut and investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.
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