For online magazine The Awl, former Sun Times Network intern Sam Stecklow delivered a roundhouse of 4,000 words in an intense account of recent fiscal machinations of the properties we’ll collectively call “The Sun-Times.” While his own experience was limited to several months in a daffy miscalculation in aggregating and link-baiting gossipy stuff online, Stecklow made the acquaintance of more experienced sources, who relay blow-by-blow accounts of time, millions and careers put to waste. “People have been saying that the Sun-Times wouldn’t make it another year since time immemorial—through the ownerships of Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, and the rest—but this time, it feels real. It would be a pity if it is,” he writes. “The Sun-Times still has the strongest reporting on City Hall, the South Side, education, and crime of any daily news operation in Chicago, and there are a lot of talented people still clinging on. It just needs a rich benefactor who isn’t, in the word of a former Sun-Times employee, a ‘fuckwad.’”
Today In The Culture, October 7, 2022: RIP Sergio Mims | Second City, NYC | Sun-Times Drops Paywall DESIGN Architect Jim DeStefano Was Eighty-Four "Jim DeStefano was a prolific Chicago-based architect for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and later at his own shop, DeStefano + Partners," reports the Tribune. "He was excellent with clients. He just knew how to guide a client through a big project and work well with the contractors,” John Burcher, an architect who worked…
