ChicagoNow
ChicagoNow logo
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| Web address | www |
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| Slogan | Where Chicago blogs. |
| Commercial? | yes |
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Type of site
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Blogging site |
| Registration | optional |
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Tribune Publishing |
| Launched | August 2009 |
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Alexa rank
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17,834 (as of May 2013)[1] |
ChicagoNow is a blogging site managed by Tribune Publishing, owner of the print Chicago Tribune newspaper. It features a network of blogs of mainly local interest on a variety of topics ranging from crime to public schools to local politics.[2]
Notable ChicagoNow contributors include the staff of the Chicago Reporter,[3] and Shimer College president Susan Henking.[4]
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History
ChicagoNow was launched in August 2009.[5][6] Its launch coincided with the Tribune company's bankruptcy.[7] 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".[7]
ChicagoNow utilized Movable Type as its blogging platform when it first launched but switched to WordPress in 2011.[8]
The website of the Tribune daily RedEye, which later moved to its own domain, was initially hosted on ChicagoNow.[9]
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."[10]
In September 2010, Time Out Chicago criticized ChicagoNow for hosting an unidentified police officer in what they called "a hate-filled, racist rant by blogger Joe the Cop, entitled The ghetto shooting template, for three days and counting now."[11] ChicagoNow removed the posts in question, stating that while they don't edit posts, they reserve the right to remove them.[12]
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External links
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- Tribune Media Group's ChicagoNow 2009 introduction
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