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The Chicago Tribune is teaming up with CPS to form a weekly high school newspaper and website, written for and mostly by high school students. The Mash, as the new paper is tentatively titled, should eclipse the Red Eye in terms of quality and worthwhileness almost immediately.
From the press release:
"We want to redefine what a high school newspaper can be, so we put a lot of thought into how we can improve the media experience for local teens," said Scott Smith, Chicago Tribune president and publisher. "This audience represents our city's future, and the new weekly student newspaper and website will help them be better informed and engaged with their communities."Chicago Tribune will distribute 100,000 copies of the new weekly newspaper to all CPS high schools beginning in September. The newspaper will feature student-generated and student-targeted editorial content, with student contributors receiving on-the-job journalism training by Tribune editors, who will review and edit all content. The newspaper...also will contain advertisements sold to sponsors by the Tribune advertising department.
Hm...newspaper circulation is dropping, thanks at least in part to the fact that younger people don't read the newspaper as much as older people do; 46 percent of teenagers and 45 percent of young adults say they hardly ever or never read a newspaper, compared with 33 percent of older adults. Those who do read, according to a 2007 study, tend to skim more, while older people read more in-depth. Advertising is based on readership, so if the Trib could position itself as the only news outlet through which advertisers could reach teenagers, it's almost like they could try to make money off that or something.
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...should eclipse the Red Eye in terms of quality and worthwhileness almost immediately.
I thought this was the Red Eye.
Wow! The resemblance between Margaret Lyons and Andrea Zuckerman is uncanny.
I love whenever Chicagoist starts on the Red Eye hating. It never ceases to amuse me.
don't worry this aint no
rapprochement, just temporary armistice so I can say Great story Lyons!
And some how I suspect that Peteypants is one of those tan cotton docker wearing prefect square hair cut having, well scrubbed pink midwest mindset captivated persons who I see every work day morning. Just bopping along towards the el station,
clueless (as the World burns around us) making a pit stop to that bright "Free" Red Stupid Eye box to get their "news source"
so they can start off the day as yet another "well informed"
Dullmerican on all that is important to them, the Cubs, Bears, reality tv, what Britney Spears and Tom Cruise are up to, etc, etc, bla bla bland, bla bla bland
now back to the hostilities!
spook, i was agreeing with the post. i wouldn't use the red eye to wipe my ass.
and i happen to be a mexican from texas, bad dresser, shaggy-haired, and underpaid in the non-profit field...but i adore britney spears so you got that part right.
Main difference between me and Aaaaahndrea: I would *never* use a non-mechanical pencil. Yeeesh.
We get it Spook. You are not only brilliant and wise, but stylishly dressed at all times, as though you were living in the hippest part of Brooklyn instead of the Midwest. I am amazed you are not yet a rock star. Or a famous intellectual with frequent readings in Paris. Or have attracted a large following on MySpace and landed your own reality show. What are you waiting for? Certainly, you have not allowed THE MAN to keep you down, have you, son?
@matilda -- Oh snap!
Yeah, I said, "Oh snap." So what? Sew buttons on your underwear.
@frp: My grandmother used to say So what? Sew buttons. And hip that lady was not.
@xlprg -- never claimed to be hip. Just saying.
peteypants
don't worry, you know I'm all up and down with
mexican Austin Texas" solidarity thing, word. Because ya boy Spook not only rooks the coldest*( from my collection) western boots from Alcalas
but is down with the whole Zapatistas struggle, kid! So I'll turn my head on the britney spears thing, I guess we all have our "thangs".
Viva SubComandante Marcos!
Frp, word on the streets is that you've been spending most of your summer indoors. What good is a Chicagoist T shirt if you can't wear it with out fear? Mail it back to Chicagist and you can breath again!
Krill-Tilda
Unfortunately, I haven't pulled the revolution off enough where I can be stylishly dressed at ALL times, but I am a lot of the time,- pleas see the above Alcalas boots reference ;-)
spok -- Puh-leese. You scare me like a problem hemorrhoid.
"...see the above Alcalas boots reference....
Looks like someone learned how to use Google.
* yawn *
Matilda, no one in the hippest neighborhoods in Brooklyn is stylishly dressed. Ironically disheveled might be the term you're looking for.
Tower: I stand corrected.
Frp... the "...see the above Alcalas boots reference...." was a reference to my own comments. But perhaps you might want to check into Alcalas so you can have some boots to quake in
Tower18, you have a great fashion voice! Are you gonna start the Chicagoist Style Section? Perhaps like Vice Magzine's "Do's" and "Don'ts section!
Boring.
remember when the Trib has the KID NEWS section every tuesday!? that was like like a high school newspaper within the trib..
i was on the cover of that shit!