named <\/a>editor of Tribune Content Agency last October.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m excited to have Zach on board as the first addition to our newly configured business,\u201d Barron told me. \u201cAs a longtime colleague, I know him to be a great, smart and calm editor who knows what readers want. And he's as good with breaking news as he is with taking the longer view on creative, content strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Finken\u2019s new role as associate editor, Barron said, he will help lead and manage Tribune Content Agency\u2019s expanding team in Chicago and work with both the TCA News Service as it transitions editorial operations from Washington, D.C., to Chicago and with TCA's syndicated content portfolio.<\/p>\n
A graduate of Glenwood High School and Northwestern University, Finken joined the Sun-Times after seven years as a copy editor at the Daily Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zach Finken, a 20-year Chicago newspaperman who ran the copy desk and layout desk for the Sun-Times, has been hired as associate editor of Tribune Content Agency, the syndication and licensing arm of Tribune Publishing. No word yet on Finken\u2019s replacement as assistant managing editor for news at the Sun-Times, where he had worked since... 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\/3363"}],"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=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}