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Sun-Times Media

About Sun-Times Media

Sun-Times Media is dedicated to being the premier source of local news and information for the greater Chicago area. Its media properties serve more than 300 communities across the region. We own eight daily newspapers, including our flagship, the Chicago Sun-Times and suntimes.com and seven suburban daily newspapers: The Beacon-News (Aurora), The Courier-News (Elgin), The Herald-News (Joliet), Lake County News-Sun, Naperville Sun, Post-Tribune (Merrillville, Ind.) and the SouthtownStar. Sun-Times Media owns 39 weekly newspapers published by the Pioneer Press and 11 weekly Sun newspapers, as well as Web sites for those newspapers, centerstagechicago.com, RogerEbert.com, SearchChicago.com and YourSeason.com.

 

Our Management

Jeremy L. Halbreich
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Rick Surkamer
President and Chief Operating Officer

Brian Linscott
Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer

James D. McDonough
Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel

John Barron
Group Publisher and Senior Vice President--News/Editorial for Sun-Times Media; Publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Pioneer Press

Fred Lebolt
Senior Vice President—News Operations, Sun-Times Media

Lisa Tatina
Publisher of the SouthtownStar, Publisher of Post-Tribune, and Sun-Times Media Vice President, Advertising, South Region

Jeff Kane
Vice President, Technology

Kevin King
Vice President, Operations

Courtney Price
Vice President, Circulation, Sales and Service

Ted Rilea
Vice President, Human Resources

Matthew Saleski
Vice President, Marketing

Paul Davia
Vice President, Major Retail and National

Anthony Triner
Vice President, Production

Jerry Alger
Publisher of Sun-Times Media—West Region and Sun-Times Media Vice President, Advertising, West Region

Our Mission

Sun-Times Media is committed to meeting the information and communication needs of consumers and advertisers in local community markets across the greater Chicago area through the publication of quality, market-leading, local community publications and digital products.

We will attract, engage, inform, entertain and retain our readers and viewers.

We will become and remain an integral part of each community we serve.

We will deliver innovation, service and value to each of our advertisers.

We will attract, recruit and retain engaged, customer-focused employees by providing an environment that allows personal and professional growth.

We will provide a competitive, market-driven return on investment to our owners.

Our Strategy

Adherence to the highest standards of integrity, ethics and business conduct.

Focus on comprehensive local news coverage and content, watchdog journalism and setting the civic agenda in each community we serve.

Establish local, flexible and entrepreneurial operating units that place an emphasis on simplifying structures and procedures.

Pursue growth through the expansion of existing print and digital products supported by creativity, innovation and the development of new products and services.

Exercise sound, centralized financial management and fiscal responsibility.

Commitment to internal capital investments and new technologies to improve quality, efficiency and market leadership.

Commitment to a continuous process of strategic planning, adaptation and improvement.

Our Tactics

Build and maintain a Company culture based on trust, respect, integrity, commitment to excellence, fairness and open communications.

Offer resources to local operating units to pursue growth, quality, innovation and service.

Attract and retain strong, talented professional employees through competitive compensation programs while providing an environment that recognizes innovation, customer focus and results.

  • Focus on Quality:
  • Our People
  • Our Products
  • Customer Service
  • Community Service