Feder: With no savior in sight, Tribune loses reporter David Jackson
Posted July 01, 2020 1:00 am
David Jackson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who spearheaded a valiant effort to find a benevolent owner for the Chicago Tribune, has resigned after 29 years at the newspaper, Robert Feder writes.
Earlier this year Jackson and colleague Gary Marx wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in which they pleaded for "a civic-minded local owner or group of owners" to rescue the Tribune from what they called "avaricious destruction" by New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital. Jackson's departure comes as Alden is poised to become majority stockholder of Tribune Publishing.
Get the full report, and more Chicago media news, at robertfeder.com.
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