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...issue of the magazine went to press March 6, well before Huntley's death, although an item in that same day's Tribune about the newsman's failing health might have alerted editors to the risk that the story posed. After Huntley's death the Trib decided not to cut the piece out of the already printed copies or yank the magazine entirely-at an estimated cost of $100,000 in production fees and lost advertising. Magazine Editor John Fink defends the decision to print and then stick by the article: "It was basically a story...
...Trib has always excelled at local investigative reporting-for which Chicago provides ample raw material -and it keeps bearing down hard. Under the direction of George Bliss, 55, muckraking teams have scored an impressive number of exclusives, including the Pulitzer- prizewinning exposé of 1972 Cook County vote frauds and an eight-part series on police brutality that resulted in several indictments...
Major credit for the paper's new orientation goes to Clayton Kirkpatrick, 59, a 34-year veteran of the paper who became editor in 1969. Kirkpatrick toned down the Trib's Republican war cries, which were sometimes as audible in news columns as in editorials, and balanced them with other viewpoints. The paper supported Nixon in 1972 but gave regular front-page coverage to McGovern. The Trib has occasionally endorsed Democrats for local and state offices. "We are no longer backing a particular point of view all the time," says Kirkpatrick. "We are using balance...
When a grand jury indicted three Chicago policemen last week for assaults on civilians, not a peep of protest emerged from the Chicago Tribune, a longtime champion of the city's 13,000 men in blue. Reason: the Trib 's own reporting had prompted the indictments, as well as continuing investigations of five other patrolmen. Five months of relentless digging had produced an eight-part series that is probably the most thorough examination of police brutality ever published in a U.S. newspaper...
...accusations coming from blacks were true. He also suspected that police violence was not limited to the ghetto. Tribune City Editor Bill Jones agreed that the subject deserved full investigation and assigned Bliss three young reporters: Pamela Zekman, 29, a former social worker with four years experience on the Trib; William Mullen, 29, a rewrite man for most of his six years at the Trib; and Emmett George, 25, a black reporter who had joined the paper only a few weeks earlier after stints with U.P.I, and Jet magazine...