Naperville Sun, Beacon News Office to Close as Sun-Times Targets 'Inefficiencies'
Editing staff would leave Aurora for downtown Chicago under a new plan to restructure news operations and consolidate suburban newsrooms.
The Naperville Sun and Beacon News newspaper office in Aurora will be closed under a new plan to "eliminate inefficiencies" in Sun-Times Media. Get news in your inbox. Sign up for the Patch newsletter. Like Naperville Patch on Facebook. The company has become "too small" to continue to operate as it is now, according to Jim Kirk, its editor-in-chief, who is proposing to move the newspaper's editors to the Chicago Sun-Times newsroom downtown and consolidate all editing and production there. The company, as it downsized, sold all of its suburban newspaper buildings in Joliet, Aurora, Elgin, Glenview and Naperville and moved staff into leased office space. The Naperville Sun and Beacon News office is currently located at 495 N. Commons Drive…
Jim Smith
11:41 am on Sunday, December 23, 2012
We discontinued our subscription to the Naperville Sun when their editorial staff went ballistic over charges of plagiarism concerning a speech given by the principal of Naperville Central High School. Their low-brow populist position was irresponsible. more ›