A Leaner Meaner Sun-Times?
Last month Nigel Wade, deputy editor of the Telegraph of London, came to Chicago to study the Sun-Times operation. The Telegraph is owned by Hollinger, Inc., parent company of American Publishing, and Wade submitted his report to David Radler, president of Hollinger and chairman of APC. Wade focused on the editorial product; he’s due back in Chicago this week, and this time he’ll presumably focus on the people who create the product. Changes of some sort are probably inevitable.
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Because Wade impressed so many people as a personable and canny newspaperman, and because his wife checked out Chicago while he checked out the Sun-Times, rumors bred like bacilli in a petri dish. Reporters are never more spellbinding than when they ponder the mysteries within their own walls, even if they are never less accurate. So Britton would be out. Nadler–the one top editor who got into it with Wade instead of getting along–would be out; Nadler, it was being said this week, would soon leave to join his old Wall Street Journal buddy Norman Pearlstine, the new editor in chief at Time Warner. (Nadler denies this.) Wallace would be out. (Yet Wallace was house hunting.) Radler was coming to town to clean house, and Wade would take over as editor.
But are there too many editors? we asked.
“Well, OK,” said Radler.
What did Wade do while he was here?
But you’re more confident they won’t?
