The articles received considerable publicity and acclaim, but a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize met resistance from some who believed the Mirage series represented a form of entrapment. Ī 25-part series on the Mirage Tavern, a saloon on Wells Street bought and operated by the Sun-Times in 1977, exposed a pattern of civic corruption and bribery, as city officials were investigated and photographed without their knowledge. With that, the editorial employees union intervened, a federal arbitrator ruled for Banks, and 13 months later he got his job back. After the friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. Banks and took away a column Banks had been writing, prompting Banks to tell a friend at the Chicago Defender that Grizzard was a racist. In 1975, a new sports editor at the Sun-Times, Lewis Grizzard, spiked some columns written by sportswriter Lacy J. He continued in this role for the remainder of his life. Two years out of college, Roger Ebert became a staff writer in 1966, and a year later was named Sun-Times 's film critic. The following year, Mauldin drew one of his most renowned illustrations, depicting a mourning statue of Abraham Lincoln after the November 1963 assassination of John F. He and Edgar Munzel, another longtime sportswriter for the paper, both would end up honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame.įamed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the Sun-Times his home base in 1962. Jerome Holtzman became a member of the Chicago Sun sports department after first being a copy boy for the Daily News in the 1940s. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris, who also covered the civil-rights movement for the Sun-Times. Jack Olsen joined the Sun-Times as editor-in-chief in 1954, before moving on to Time and Sports Illustrated magazines and authoring true-crime books. "Kup's Column", written by Irv Kupcinet, also made its first appearance in 1943. Eppie Lederer, sister of " Dear Abby" columnist Abigail van Buren, assumed the role thereafter as Ann Landers. Ann Landers was the pseudonym of staff writer Ruth Crowley, who answered readers' letters until 1955. The advice column "Ask Ann Landers" debuted in 1943. ( January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īmong the most prominent members of the newspaper's staff was cartoonist Jacob Burck, who was hired by the Chicago Times in 1938, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 and continued with the paper after it became the Sun-Times, drawing nearly 10,000 cartoons over a 44-year career. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. It typically ran articles from The Washington Post/ Los Angeles Times wire service. Although the graphic style was urban tabloid, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of the city's Democratic establishment. When the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were moved to the Sun-Times. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, which acquired the afternoon Chicago Daily News in 1959 and launched WFLD television in 1966. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded by Marshall Field III on December 4, 1941, and the Chicago Daily Times (which had dropped the "Illustrated" from its title) published from 1929 to 1948. Though the assets of the Journal were sold to the Chicago Daily News in 1929, its last owner Samuel Emory Thomason also immediately launched the tabloid Chicago Daily Illustrated Times. Canal was undamaged, gave the Chicago Tribune a temporary home until it could rebuild. The Evening Journal, whose West Side building at 17–19 S. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the Chicago Daily Journal, which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire. The Chicago Sun-Times claims to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. Long owned by the Marshall Field family, since the 1980s ownership of the paper has changed hands numerous times, including twice in the late 2010s. Journalists at the paper have received eight Pulitzer prizes, mostly in the 1970s one recipient was film critic Roger Ebert (1975), who worked at the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun and the Chicago Daily Times. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media, and has the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
0 kommentar(er)
