Chicago Sun-Times
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The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. Although its circulation (particularly home-delivery) and advertising revenue are smaller than the rival Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Times makes more money on the newsstand. The Sun-Times is an urban tabloid, designed with hard-to-ignore front pages in an easily-carried format ideal for commuters on the 'L', Chicago's rapid transit. The paper has traditionally been liberal in its editorial outlook, although it has adopted a more centrist stance in recent years.
In 1978, the newspaper conducted the controversial Mirage Tavern investigation, in which undercover reporters operated a bar and caught city officials taking bribes on camera. In 2005 Editor & Publisher named the Sun-Times as one of the "10 That Do It Right." "(The Sun-Times) deserved a Pulitzer Prize this year: No winner actually accomplished as much for its hometown as the continuing "Clout on Wheels" series."
It is best known internationally as the employer of the influential film critic Roger Ebert. The newspaper gave a start in journalism to now disgraced Bob Greene. From 1978 to 1984, when the paper was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, it published legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko (previously of the defunct Chicago Daily News), and Irv Kupcinet's daily column was a fixture from 1943 until his death in 2003. Current Sun-Times writers of note include Richard Roeper, Mary Mitchell, Zay N. Smith, Jay Mariotti, Neil Steinberg, Rick Telander, and Jim DeRogatis.
The paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun and the Chicago Daily Times. Before Murdoch, the newspaper was for a time owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family. The Sun-Times is owned today by Chicago based Hollinger International. It is controlled, indirectly, through a complex corporate structure, by controversial Canadian born businessman Conrad Black.
In the television series Early Edition, the main character mysteriously receives a copy of the Chicago Sun-Times that will be published tomorrow, making him aware of the immediate future.
According to the 2005 World Almanac, the Chicago Sun-Times is the 13th most widely distributed newspaper in the US.
