Gurnee Office of News-Sun, Pioneer Press to Close as Sun-Times Targets 'Inefficiencies'

Editing staff would leave Gurnee for downtown Chicago under a new plan to restructure news operations and consolidate suburban newsrooms. Reporters would be mobile, filing stories remotely.

The Lake County News-Sun and Pioneer Press office in Gurnee is one of the Sun-Times Media offices to close under a new plan to "eliminate inefficiencies" in the company. Sun-Times Media has become "too small" to continue to operate as it is now, according to Jim Kirk, its editor-in-chief, who is proposing to move the newspaper's editors to the Chicago Sun-Times newsroom downtown and consolidate all editing and production there. Offices in Aurora, Glenview, Gurnee, Joliet, Tinley Park and Merrillville, Indiana, will be closed, said Kirk in an article posted on Time Out Chicago. Editors and production will move to the Sun-Times headquarters in Chicago while reporters would be mobile and able to file stories remotely from the field. The …

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