{"id":1566,"date":"2013-12-08T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2013-12-09T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T14:59:56","slug":"hot-off-the-presses-dnainfo-puts-ink-to-newsprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/08\/hot-off-the-presses-dnainfo-puts-ink-to-newsprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot off the presses: DNAinfo puts ink to newsprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DNAinfo<\/a><\/a>One year after its debut as a hyperlocal news website, DNAinfo.com Chicago<\/a> has launched a print publication targeting one of the city\u2019s most affluent neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Forty thousand residents of Lincoln Park this weekend received the first edition of what is intended to be a weekly print version of DNAinfo\u2019s online coverage of the community. Delivered to every household by U.S. Postal Service, the inaugural issue is 14 color pages in a format that\u2019s slightly taller and marginally wider than a tabloid, but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet.<\/p>\n

\"Shamus<\/a>

Shamus Toomey<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cDNAinfo has enjoyed great support from that neighborhood since launching one year ago,\u201d managing editor Shamus Toomey told me Saturday. \u201cThis is another opportunity for DNAinfo to get neighborhood news to each and every person there. We are excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Toomey: \u201cWe will reach all 40,000 households between Wellington and North Avenue on a weekly basis, creating a unique, unmatched opportunity for neighborhood merchants aiming to capture the attention of Lincoln Park\u2019s highly engaged and affluent residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Billionaire Joe Ricketts, founder and CEO of DNAinfo.com, launched the Chicago franchise in November 2012 \u2014 three years after its debut in New York. \u201cChicago is a city of neighborhoods and neighborhoods are what DNAinfo.com is all about,\u201d he said at the time. In Chicago, Ricketts\u2019 family also owns 95 percent of the Cubs and Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n

Led by Toomey, a veteran of the Sun-Times, the staff of DNAinfo Chicago includes an impressive lineup of journalists,<\/a> including Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Konkol and senior editors Andrew Herrmann, Jen Sabella, Dave Newbart, Justin Breen and John O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n

Here is the letter to the readers that appeared on the front page of the first edition:<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Reader,<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t too many media companies starting print publications these days but, by the same token, there aren\u2019t too many media companies like DNAinfo.com.<\/p>\n

A year ago DNAinfo.com set out to cover news in your neighborhood like no one else.\u00a0 To accomplish this, our neighborhood reporter lives, works and is dedicated to Lincoln Park (see Paul Biasco\u2019s contact information on page 2).\u00a0 We support him with a 35-person newsroom of reporters and editors. The result is the most thorough and comprehensive coverage of Lincoln Park.\u00a0 While other media companies will cover Lincoln Park from time to time \u2014 only DNAinfo.com covers it all the time, making us the first and best source of Lincoln Park news and information.<\/p>\n

The DNAinfo.com website is updated seven days a week with everything you need to know in Lincoln Park and Chicago.\u00a0 However, we want to make it easy for you to be informed through many mediums, the web, mobile \u2013 and now print.<\/p>\n

The weekend edition of DNAinfo, will be delivered to every household in the Lincoln Park area by mail each Friday or Saturday. We will reach all 40,000 households between Wellington and North Avenue on a weekly basis, creating a unique, unmatched opportunity for neighborhood merchants aiming to capture the attention of Lincoln Park\u2019s highly engaged and affluent residents.<\/p>\n

Whether you are reading us online or off, we are confident that DNAinfo\u2019s Lincoln Park news is thorough, relevant and addictive; and we think this print publication paired with our website is an unstoppable combination for advertisers.<\/p>\n

We will print the weekend edition for the next two weeks (December 13th and 20th) and then, beginning January 10, 2014, we will publish every week.<\/p>\n

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One year after its debut as a hyperlocal news website, DNAinfo.com Chicago has launched a print publication targeting one of the city\u2019s most affluent neighborhoods. Forty thousand residents of Lincoln Park this weekend received the first edition of what is intended to be a weekly print version of DNAinfo\u2019s online coverage of the community. Delivered... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}