The Chicago News Cooperative is a not-for-profit, Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

-based cooperative that was created to produce news stories about Chicago for various media organizations. It was formed in November 2009, and currently distributes its content to The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

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History and mission

The Chicago News Cooperative was formed in October 2009 as the brainchild of journalist and author Peter Osnos. The cooperative's staff includes its editor and co-founder, former Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

managing editor (and former Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

editor) James O'Shea; its general manager and deputy editor, former Chicago Tribune business columnist David Greising; former Chicago Tribune city hall reporter Dan Mihalopoulos, former Omaha World-Herald

Omaha World-Herald

The Omaha World-Herald, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is the primary daily newspaper of Nebraska, as well as portions of southwest Iowa. For decades it circulated daily throughout Nebraska, and in parts of Kansas, South Dakota, Missouri, Colorado and Wyoming. In 2008, distribution was reduced to the...

reporter Katie Fretland, former Chicago Tribune feature writer Don Terry and former Chicago Tribune sports editor Dan McGrath. Its advisory board includes former Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski

Ann Marie Lipinski

Ann Marie Lipinski is a journalist and the curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She is the former editor of the Chicago Tribune and Vice President for Civic Engagement at the University of Chicago...

, while former Chicago Tribune managing editor for features James Warren

James Warren (journalist)

James C. Warren is an American journalist who served as the managing editor for features at the Chicago Tribune until he left the paper in 2008. He previously was the Tribune's Washington bureau chief from 1993 to 2001, and he appeared on CNN's "The Capitol Gang" as part of that job...

 is a regular columnist.

In November 2009, the cooperative started providing the content for a twice-a-week, two-page section in the Chicago edition of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

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The cooperative currently is funded primarily by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The Chicago News Cooperative operates out of the offices of WTTW

WTTW

WTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...

-TV in Chicago.