{"id":8071,"date":"2015-07-01T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2015-07-01T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T11:30:42","slug":"tribune-cuts-25-ad-sales-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/01\/tribune-cuts-25-ad-sales-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribune Media Group cuts 25 sales jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8073\" style=\"width: 687px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/01\/tribune-cuts-25-ad-sales-jobs\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8073\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8073\" alt=\"Tribune Tower\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune.jpg\" width=\"677\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune.jpg 677w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-300x184.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-150x92.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-400x245.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-200x122.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Tribune Tower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The parent company of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune <\/a>has eliminated the positions of 25 advertising managers and employees, including some who had been with the company for decades.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribunemediagroup.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune Media Group<\/a> said the cuts, which became effective last Friday, were part of a reorganization of the company\u2019s sales force.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-Media-Group2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8079\" alt=\"Chicago Tribune Media Group\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-Media-Group2-300x97.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-Media-Group2-300x97.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-Media-Group2-150x48.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-Media-Group2-400x129.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-Media-Group2-200x64.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chicago-Tribune-Media-Group2.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cTo accelerate our digital sales and marketing initiatives, we re-evaluated our go-to-market strategy and realigned our sales force,\u201d the spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday, \"These changes, which resulted in the elimination of some positions, will better position us in the marketplace, and\u00a0provide our marketing partners one-stop access to our full suite of integrated print, online and mobile solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the new structure will establish teams of sales employees focused on specific categories, such as health, real estate, finance and fashion, and will market advertising across multiple platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Media Group includes such brands as RedEye, Hoy, Chicago magazine, TribLocal and 38 suburban daily and weekly publications.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Tribune Media Group also licenses this blog, which operates independently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parent company of the Chicago Tribune has eliminated the positions of 25 advertising managers and employees, including some who had been with the company for decades. A spokesperson for Chicago Tribune Media Group said the cuts, which became effective last Friday, were part of a reorganization of the company\u2019s sales force.<\/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\/8071"}],"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=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}