{"id":2956,"date":"2014-04-06T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2014-04-06T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T16:40:03","slug":"sunday-tribune-hikes-price-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/04\/06\/sunday-tribune-hikes-price-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Tribune hikes price 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Newspapers.png\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/04\/06\/sunday-tribune-hikes-price-50\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2957\" alt=\"Newspapers\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Newspapers.png\" width=\"811\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Newspapers.png 811w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Newspapers-300x152.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Newspapers-150x76.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Newspapers-400x202.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Newspapers-800x405.png 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Newspapers-200x101.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/a><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/breaking\/chi-tribune-publishing-reorganization-20131120,0,3963235.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> this weekend raised the newsstand price of its Sunday edition by 50 percent \u2014 to $2.99 for a single copy. The Sunday Tribune has been $1.99 since 2008.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SundayTribune.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2961\" alt=\"SundayTribune\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SundayTribune-152x300.png\" width=\"152\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The only notification came in a two-sentence \u201cNote to Readers\u201d on Page 2: \u201cEffective with this edition, the retail price of a copy of the Sunday Chicago Tribune has been increased to $2.99. The regular Sunday-only subscription rate will remain unchanged at $1.99.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tribune Co. officials declined to comment on how the increase may affect single-copy sales, but a spokeswoman released the following statement after the fact: \u201cFor the first time in six years, the Chicago Tribune will raise the newsstand price of its Sunday single-copy edition from $1.99 to $2.99, effective\u00a0April 6.\u00a0In terms of home delivery, the regular subscription rate will remain unchanged at $1.99.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, the Tribune raised its Monday-through-Saturday newsstand price from $1.00 to $1.50.\u00a0At that time, the company said: \u201cWe assess pricing in our marketplace and in relation to our counterparts nationwide.\"<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sun-Times<\/a> newsstand price is $1 on weekdays and $1.75 on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Tribune this weekend raised the newsstand price of its Sunday edition by 50 percent \u2014 to $2.99 for a single copy. The Sunday Tribune has been $1.99 since 2008.<\/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\/2956"}],"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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}