EveryBlock, the hyper-local news mapping site brainchild of Adrian Holovaty, has teamed up with the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. The Tribune launched Tuesday; the Sun-Times launched today. Both papers publish a map and list of their local news stories from the past 48 hours, then link to those stories. Both papers are having iframe [...]

Los Angeles Times Publisher David Hiller announced his resignation today. The official memo: I want to let you know that David Hiller has decided to step down as publisher of The Los Angeles Times, effective immediately. David took over as publisher in October 2006, during a difficult period for the newspaper and has performed with [...]

Friday’s earthquake shook up a few people, for sure. Did you see the Chicago Tribune’s map mashup? It was fantastic! I created a user-enabled map for the Post-Dispatch — no coding necessarily thanks to Zee Maps. But it doesn’t have the same fanciness that the Trib’s map has — next time, I need to figure [...]

Sam Zell has, indeed, bought Tribune Co. Shareholders still have to accept the deal, but: “If Tribune decides to accept another buyout offer before its shareholders approve the deal, the company will have to pay Zell a $25 million breakup fee.” (Why hasn’t anyone else thought of a break-up fee?) Part of the deal means [...]