Feder: Sun-Times editor Chris Fusco leaving for California news startup

Chris Fusco, the veteran Chicago journalist who rose from reporter to executive editor in 20 years at the Sun-Times, is leaving to help launch an ambitious news startup in central California.

Fusco, 47, has been named founding executive editor of Lookout Santa Cruz, which will launch this fall as the first of a network of local news and information sites. He will lead an initial editorial team of 10, with plans for expansion to follow.

Fusco joined the Sun-Times in 2000 after working as a reporter for the Daily Herald and the Northwest Herald.

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