Chicago-based Johnson publishing named Kierna Mayo editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine.
The company paid $85 million for the San Diego Union-Tribune as well as nine weeklies, expanding its reach in Southern California.
Tribune Publishing is spinning off from Tribune on Aug. 4, with plans to buy yet more newspapers. It's do or die time.
Tribune Publishing Co. CEO Jack Griffin isn't selling off newspapers. He wants to acquire more of them.
The Onion is halting its print version in Chicago and its two other remaining markets with its Dec. 12 issue.
The Chicago Sun-Times and its sister suburban papers have eliminated their photography staff and will ask reporters to provide more photography and video.
Johnson Publishing, the Chicago firm that produces magazines Ebony and Jet, has gotten an investment from an arm of JP Morgan Chase & Co.