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Hoffman brings more than 20 years of media sales success to her role leading the Sun-Times’ the role and is charged with growing advertising accounts and developing new business channels for the organization.
SNEED: As the Sun-Times morphs into a non-profit and merges with WBEZ, I’m reminded that so much has changed about the news business since my career began. But not the competitive spirit to get the news first.
The donors include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and the Joyce Foundation.
Executives said the philanthropy is pledged over five years to help the paper improve its journalism, expand digitally and continue the print edition.
The Chicago Public Media board voted Tuesday evening to move forward with its acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times, combining the long-struggling daily newspaper with resurgent public radio station WBEZ-FM as one nonprofit multimedia newsroom.