• Crain’s Chicago Business, Friday, September 14, 2012 12:40 PM

The Chicago Tribune has cut the number of its 22 TribLocal weekly print inserts by about half, Lynne Marek reports.  All the local regions are still being covered, she says, but the coverage has been consolidated – rather than a separate insert, for instance, news about Evanston now appears in a North Shore edition. The cutbacks come in the wake of the Tribune’s “indefinite” July suspension of Journatic LLC, which had produced the inserts.  Journatic, a Chicago-based startup which specializes in local coverage for newspapers around the country, has been accused of fake bylines and plagarism.  The Tribune, which had invested in Journatic in April and cut its own TribLocal staff by half, took the work in-house again in July.

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