ChicagoNow
ChicagoNow is a blogging site managed by Tribune Media Group, a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune. It features a network of blogs of mainly local interest on a variety of topics ranging from crime to public schools to local politics.
Notable ChicagoNow contributors include the staff of the Chicago Reporter, and Shimer College president Susan Henking.
History
ChicagoNow was launched in August 2009. Its launch coincided with the Tribune company's bankruptcy. As a newspaper-run blogging community, with the initial tagline "a blog by and for locals", it represented what one observer called "a new value proposition for newspapers".
ChicagoNow utilized Movable Type as its blogging platform when it first launched but switched to WordPress in 2011.
The website of the Tribune daily RedEye, which later moved to its own domain, was initially hosted on ChicagoNow.
Reception
In April 2010, the World Editors Forum described ChicagoNow as a "hyperlocal blog network" that has "a personal quality that many larger newspapers lack."
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