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Hard times abound for many print media publication and The Chicago Tribune is the latest victim. Following up on Tribune Co. chairman and CEO Sam Zell's warning from earlier this year of more layoffs, the Trib announced today it plans to eliminate 80 positions in its newsroom. It's the fourth round of layoffs since 2005. At that time, the newsroom had 670 positions; this round of cuts will leave it around 500. Of the 80 positions being cut, roughly a dozen remain unfilled so the number of actual newsroom workers losing their jobs will be in the mid-50s. More jobs will be cut during this current round, but those are unknown at this time. In addition to the job cuts, the Trib will also reduce the pages it produces by 13 to 14 percent. A similar reduction in jobs and pages was announced last week at The Los Angeles Times, another Tribune Co. paper.

Funny Ha-Ha is a guaranteed good time. Tonight's edition at The Hideout features a host of writers, but seems to be "headlined" by Eric Zorn. We love Zorn, but find it kind of funny his credit is "Chicago Tribune Columnist & Blogger" while Claire Zulkey's is "Blogger & TV Critic for The Onion & Los Angeles Times."

Today's the big day. Along with 24 other states, we're voting in Super Duper Tuesday. Up for grabs are 1688 pledged Democratic delegates, and 900 Republican delegates. Delegate-heavy states such as California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois and Georgia could play a deciding role in the outcome of both races. But with polling showing a tight Democratic race, and Obama working overtime to split votes in odd-numbered districts, tonight's results won't produce a nominee for the Democrats.

Today's finally the day for the Chicago Tribune. ... Well, most likely. After deliberations Saturday bore little fruit, the Trib's full board of directors is scheduled to meet today to decide on a buyer of the internationally-renowned media outlet. You may recall that as recently as a couple months ago, investors expressed little interest in becoming owners of the Trib, the Los Angeles Times, WGN and the Chicago Cubs, among other subsidiaries. But now, the...

While Chicagoist was vacationing out west this long holiday weekend, our thoughts turned back briefly to our favorite obsession, politics. When we were hanging out around one of our favorite coffee shops west of the Mississippi, we picked up a copy of the local rag, and read up on all the important news facing readers of that other -Ist. But one story caught our eye, one that has both local and national significance. The Los...

We love stories of people donning an outfit and going into the world undercover. Remember when Tyra put on a fat suit? Maybe Tyra should put on a “normal person” suit and see what that’s like? Just an idea. Piggybacking off of John Howard Griffin and more recently, Barbara Ehrenreich, former Los Angeles Times columnist, Norah Vincent, left her job and went undercover as a man for a year and a half. For her book,...

Scott C. Smith, Tribune Co.’s president of publishing, has been quite the firecracker this week. Los Angeles Times publisher Jeffrey Johnson refused Smith’s orders to eliminate as many as 100 newsroom positions; Smith flew to LA on Thursday and forced Johnson’s resignation (some would call that being fired). The Los Angeles Times, along with 10 other papers including the Chicago Tribune, are owned by the Tribune Co. Oh, they also own 23 TV stations and...

Chicagoist worries that one day when we kick the bucket, all they'll be able to put on our tombstone is, "He read a lot of stuff on the internet." It's frightening how much time we spend on the internet, and yet, like a drunk convincing himself he can learn to have "just a few," every time we question our overconsumption, we end up falling off the wagon again and looking for answers at the bottom...