The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media and, after the Chicago Tribune, has the second-highest circulation among Chicago newspapers. The modern newspaper arose from the merger of the Chicago Sun and the Chicago Daily Times in 1948. The paper’s journalists have won eight Pulitzer prizes, mostly in the 1970s; one of them was film critic Roger Ebert (1975), who worked for the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013. Long owned by the Marshall Field family, ownership of the paper has changed hands several times since the 1980s, including twice in the late 2010s.
The Chicago Sun-Times bills itself as the city’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the Chicago Daily Journal, which was also the first newspaper to publish the now-debunked rumor that Catherine O’Leary’s cow was to blame for the Chicago fire. The Evening Journal, whose WestSide building at 17-19 S. Canal was unharmed, provided a temporary home for the Chicago Tribune until it could be rebuilt. Though the Journal’s assets were sold to the Chicago Daily News in 1929, its last owner, Samuel Emory Thomason, also launched the tabloid Chicago Daily Illustrated Times that same year.
The modern newspaper arose from the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded on December 4, 1941, by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, owned the Chicago Daily News in the afternoon in 1959 and launched WFLD television in 1966. When the Daily News folded in 1978, many of its employees, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were transferred to the Sun-Times. During the Field era, the newspaper was populist and progressive, leaning Democratic but remaining independent of the city’s Democratic establishment. Despite the urban tabloid graphic style, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. It usually ran wire service articles from The Washington Post/Los Angeles Times.
The Sun-Times formally merged into the nonprofit Chicago Public Media, longtime owner of the city’s National Public Radio affiliate WBEZ, on January 30, 2022. The deal was announced in September 2021 as a nonbinding agreement, and the board of Chicago Public Media approved it on January 18, 2022. The final agreement was backed by $61 million in donations from various philanthropic organizations.
Jennifer Kho was named executive editor in 2022. She took over for veteran investigative reporter Steve Warmbir, who had served as interim editor during the Covid pandemic, ownership changes, and the newsroom alliance with Chicago Public Radio.
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