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Before joining the Chicago News Cooperative, Bill Parker spent more than three decades at the Chicago Tribune, where he headed two departments. From 2004 to 2008, he served as associate managing editor for the news desk after four years as associate managing editor for photography. Bill also was a sportswriter, assistant sports editor, metro reporter, assistant metro editor, chief picture editor, Page One news editor, senior news editor and Perspective editor. He spearheaded two major redesigns and co-managed two projects that produced multimedia CD-ROMs for the Tribune. The first, an anniversary report about the 9/11 attacks, brought the newspaper an unprecedented spike in circulation. The second, a biography of Pope John Paul II, included both hardcover and paperback books. While with the Tribune, Bill organized the production of a dozen other books for the paper. Bill has won awards from the Tribune and other organizations for design, editing and photo editing.