{"id":7574,"date":"2015-05-03T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7574"},"modified":"2015-05-03T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T20:03:42","slug":"sun-times-trims-prep-sports-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/05\/03\/sun-times-trims-prep-sports-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun-Times trims prep sports coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Chicago Sun-Times<\/p><\/div>\n

In his headier days as chairman of Wrapports LLC, <\/a>Michael Ferro often touted the delivery of high school sports content as a potential billion-dollar business. Now his company\u2019s one remaining daily newspaper is shrinking its coverage of high school sports \u2014 and Ferro has disappeared<\/a> from the masthead to boot.<\/p>\n

Free-lance reporters were notified last week that the Sun-Times<\/a>\u00a0no longer would cover prep sports as extensively as in the past, starting with softball and other spring athletics.<\/p>\n

Jim Kirk, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Sun-Times, acknowledged that the cutbacks were tied to Wrapports' recent sale<\/a> of 38 suburban publications to Tribune Publishing. Most of the stories and stats were shared among the suburban newspapers and their websites.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike all news organizations, we continually evaluate our content needs,\u201d Kirk said in a statement. \u201cWe continue to cover high school athletics and will do so in the future. We have scaled back in some areas in the wake of the sale of our suburban newspapers, which carried the majority of our preps coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coverage of Chicago area high school football and basketball appears to have been spared, but could be subject to cutbacks as well.<\/p>\n

Sports isn\u2019t the only area under review. As part of cost-reduction efforts, sources said, the Sun-Times also reduced the free-lance budget for arts and entertainment coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his headier days as chairman of Wrapports LLC, Michael Ferro often touted the delivery of high school sports content as a potential billion-dollar business. Now his company\u2019s one remaining daily newspaper is shrinking its coverage of high school sports \u2014 and Ferro has disappeared from the masthead to boot. Free-lance reporters were notified last... 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\/7574"}],"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=7574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}