The Chicago Tribune this weekend raised the newsstand price of its Sunday edition by 50 percent — to $2.99 for a single copy. The Sunday Tribune has been $1.99 since 2008. Continue reading →

Michael Miner (Photo: Andrea Bauer)

Michael Miner, the longtime media critic and senior editor of the Chicago Reader, is home recovering after receiving a liver transplant last month.

Miner, 70, disclosed in December that he has had primary sclerosing cholangitis, an inflammation of the bile ducts, since 2001. His condition recently worsened, requiring a new liver. Continue reading →

Hank Sartin

Veteran movie critic Hank Sartin, managing editor of RogerEbert.com and former film editor of Time Out Chicago, is returning to the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate in film studies.

Starting April 14, he’ll join the Department of Cinema and Media Studies as department coordinator. Continue reading →

Steve Cochran

After seven months as morning personality on WGN AM 720, Steve Cochran is ready for his close-up.

Starting Tuesday, the Tribune Broadcasting news/talk station will add a live video stream of Cochran’s show to its website at wgnradio.com. From 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays, multiple cameras in WGN’s showcase studio will allow listeners to see what they’re hearing in real time. Continue reading →

Bill Kurtis

Veteran Chicago journalists Bill Kurtis, Karen Meyer and Tracy Baim will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Chicago Headline Club at its 37th annual Peter Lisagor Awards ceremony May 2. Continue reading →

Terrance Noland

Terrance Noland, a former editor at Men’s Journal, Esquire and SmartMoney, has been named executive editor of Chicago magazine.

His appointment, effective April 14, was announced Thursday by editor in chief Beth Fenner.

As No. 2 editor at the Tribune Co.-owned monthly, Noland succeeds Cassie Walker Burke, a 12-year veteran who resigned last month to join Crain’s Chicago Business as an assistant managing editor. Continue reading →

A recent Sun-Times business blog post acknowledged that bitcoin had been “battered by news of theft and volatility” lately. But that’s not stopping parent company Wrapports LLC from doubling down on the controversial digital currency.

On Thursday, the Sun-Times announced it was becoming “the first major newspaper” to accept bitcoin as payment. Customers in the Chicago area can now use bitcoin to pay for the subscriptions at bitcoin.suntimes.com. Continue reading →

Jay Levine

A live report by WBBM-Channel 2’s Jay Levine on President Obama’s fundraising visit to Chicago Wednesday was disrupted by a protester shouting: “Obama is a war criminal.”

Levine, chief correspondent for the CBS-owned station, had just begun his report from River North on the 5 p.m. newscast when an unidentified man lunged for his microphone. A second view of the incident was captured by WMAQ-Channel 5’s Mary Ann Ahern, who was reporting live for the NBC-owned station nearby. Continue reading →

Linda Yu

Linda Yu, the Chicago television treasure whose amazing longevity is exceeded only by her popularity, marked her 30th anniversary at WLS-Channel 7 Wednesday by doing what she’s always done — anchoring a top-rated newscast on the ABC-owned station.

“It’s been a lucky, fascinating, learning, productive, wonderful time,” she told Facebook fans. “I’m grateful and humbled by your support all these years!” Continue reading →

Goli Sheikholeslami

“Chicago” may be the company’s first name, but when it came to choosing a new chief executive officer, Chicago Public Media had no qualms about going out of town.

In naming Goli Sheikholeslami to oversee public radio WBEZ FM 91.5 and its related enterprises Tuesday, the board of Chicago Public Media chose a veteran of New York and Washington media suites with no prior connection to Chicago — and no experience in radio for that matter. Continue reading →