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When Chi-Town Daily News announced last week they were shifting models from non-profit to profit, that left a lot of questions out in the open. What did it mean? Who was laid off? What's in store for the CTDN in the future? The CTDN's Ed-in-Chief, Geoff Dougherty took to his site for a little Q&A in which he answered some, but not all, of the questions floating around out there.

Tomorrow is the Chicago Media Future Conference (register to go if you haven't yet!). In preparation, one of the conference's organizers and former Chicagoisto Scott Smith - who talked to Karl in this week's podcast - stopped by WBEZ to check out the situation at Chicago Public Radio. What he found was not quite what he expected.

We looked out the window Saturday morning and thought to ourselves, "Where, where ever shall we spend this glorious spring day?" The answer, naturally, was in a windowless, florescent-lit conference room in Trib Tower. Why? Because the Society for News Design was having a regional meetup to examine the state of our industry - and explore cool stuff going on in and around the Windy City's journalism scene. The best part: intros to a variety of new and growing news projects around the city. Oh, and that keg on the 22nd floor balcony...