Yet more woes for the Tribune Co. Earlier this year, an upgrade to CCI, their publishing system, left the Chicago Tribune without the ability to publish, and nearly caused the paper to miss an entire day. Now, they’re in trouble for an inappropriate headline in a story that appeared in Wednesday’s paper:
The scramble to prevent the story from reaching the street — common in Hollywood’s depiction of the newspaper business, but highly unusual in actual practice, especially at a major publication — wasn’t fully successful. Hundreds of the Tribune’s 500,000 or so subscribers received the article, penned by a freelance writer on the cover of the paper’s WomanNews section. Tribune editors said Teamster employees eventually forced them to stop pulling the section late last night because they needed to start printing another newspaper.
The Trib ran an apology in today’s paper — subscription required, naturally. See what you miss out on by not reading Howard Kurtz’s daily column in the Post?
On an unrelated note, I am somewhat amused to note that the Sun-Sentinel is in fact powered by Sun Microsystems hardware and software; they haven’t even bothered to change the default favicon.ico file.
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