About the Chicago News Cooperative

The Chicago News Cooperative produces public-interest journalism focused on Chicago, its politics and policy, culture and the arts, and the diverse communities of the metropolitan area. We publish in The New York Times on Friday and Sunday, the first outside news organization to produce entire pages for the Times. We also work in partnership with WTTW Channel 11, Chicago’s public television station.

Launched in late October of 2009, CNC is headed by James O’Shea, the former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune and editor of the Los Angeles Times. In early 2010, CNC expects to launch a Web site that will be the hub of its operation, and introduce novel ways to connect the community with our news room in a two-way exchange of information.

CNC is launched as a project of Window to the World Communications Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. It has received a major grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and support from the Chicago Community Trust. Winston & Strawn is providing pro bono legal services, and DickinsonGroup is providing pro bono public relations counsel.