{"id":9047,"date":"2015-10-05T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2015-10-05T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:43:23","slug":"sun-times-ceo-timothy-knight-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/10\/05\/sun-times-ceo-timothy-knight-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun-Times CEO Timothy Knight exits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Timothy Knight<\/p><\/div>\n

The future of the Sun-Times<\/a> appeared more cloudy than ever Monday with the resignation of Timothy Knight as chief executive officer of parent company Wrapports LLC.<\/p>\n

Knight, 50, is leaving to become president of the Cleveland-based Northeast Ohio Media Group, which operates cleveland.com<\/a>\u00a0and the Sun News, and is responsible for all advertising and marketing for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"I am honored to join NEOMG and work with their talented team of journalists and sales and marketing professionals,\" Knight was quoted<\/a> as telling the Plain Dealer. \"The opportunities for growth here, especially in the digital arena, are tremendous.\"<\/p>\n

Along with chairman Michael Ferro, Knight launched Wrapports in December 2011 after an investment group acquired the assets of Sun-Times Media Group for about $20 million. A former publisher, president and CEO of Newsday,<\/a> Knight had ties to Chicago, where he started as a corporate lawyer for Skadden Arps. He later joined the legal department of Tribune Co., where he rose through the executive ranks and helped develop the cars.com<\/a> and apartments.com<\/a> websites for the company.<\/p>\n

Knight never achieved his stated goal of making Wrapports profitable by introducing \u201ccutting-edge technologies, new content portals and other tools that will expand and drive richer and more satisfying content to readers, while providing more targeted and measurable promotion options for our advertising partners.\u201d Mostly, it seemed, the company failed with a series of half-hearted initiatives while cutting staff and selling off assets.<\/p>\n

As it jettisoned its portfolio of suburban daily and weekly publications and websites \u2014 nearly 40 in all \u2014 Wrapports invested in a hyperlocal news-aggregation startup called Aggrego, and created the Sun-Times Network,<\/a> an array of clumsy and useless digital sites targeting cities across the country. In 2012 the company acquired the Chicago Reader, <\/a>the alternative weekly, which remains its only other print product along with the daily Sun-Times.<\/p>\n

Knight was instrumental in some of the most controversial and unpopular moves at the Sun-Times, including the firing of the newspaper\u2019s entire photography staff and the elimination of all endorsements of political candidates by the editorial board. Under pressure, both moves later were scaled back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The future of the Sun-Times appeared more cloudy than ever Monday with the resignation of Timothy Knight as chief executive officer of parent company Wrapports LLC. Knight, 50, is leaving to become president of the Cleveland-based Northeast Ohio Media Group, which operates cleveland.com\u00a0and the Sun News, and is responsible for all advertising and marketing for... 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\/9047"}],"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=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9052,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}