chicagotribune.com <\/a>report.<\/p>\nIn response to inquiries, a spokesman for Chicago Tribune Media Group released a statement emphasizing newsroom efficiencies and ongoing initiatives \u201cto support\u00a0our expanding content portfolio and digital efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here is the text of the statement:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe newsroom continues to evolve\u00a0to support\u00a0our expanding content portfolio and digital efforts.\u00a0We continue to add and invest in staff in key areas such as investigative reporting, digital programming, local news, opinion leadership and commentary. At the same time, we have become\u00a0more efficient across the entire newsroom: In fact, we are now publishing more stories across more screens than ever before in the organization\u2019s history and we are publishing more news pages in the printed edition than before the Great Recession. The acquisition of suburban news and information brands last fall further enhances and deepens our coverage of the region. And we continue to invest in highly attractive\u00a0digital\u00a0verticals, including\u00a0Blue Sky, Theater Loop, Printers Row and Dining.<\/em>
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\nSince 2011, we have published an additional 10,000\u00a0pages of news for our readers and additionally added nearly 50 full news pages per week this year alone.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten editorial staffers were among 25 Chicago Tribune employees whose positions were eliminated Wednesday in a sweeping move to cut costs and shift resources to digital operations. The company did not specify the jobs affected, but sources said the newsroom layoffs included photo editor Chuck Berman, sports digital editor Stu Courtney, photo imager Eric Davis,... 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\/7813"}],"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=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}