Posted by chicagomedia.org on November 03, 2009 at 16:24:35:
Chicago Sun-Times sports boss Stu Courtney jumps to Tribune Web site
Stu Courtney is leaving the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has run the sports department for more than seven years, to join the rival Chicago Tribune as editor of its recently launched Chicago Breaking Sports Web site.
"Stu is the editor who'll help us make chicagobreakingsports.com the success we all envision," Mike Kellams, the Tribune's associate managing editor for sports, noted in a Tuesday announcement to the paper's staff.
At the Sun-Times, where Courtney worked 22 years, he was the obvious in-house choice to succeed Bill Adee as sports editor after Adee (now the Chicago Tribune's digital editor) abruptly left for the Tribune in May 2002. Courtney immediately took over on an interim basis and officially got the job about three months later.
Courtney is scheduled to assume his new post Wednesday. He will report to Kellams, who called him "a steady hand and true professional."
A graduate of Indiana University and a Chicago-area resident for 30 years, Courtney is leaving the Sun-Times a little more than a week after it and its suburban sister publications were saved from liquidation. An investor group led by Chicago businessman Jim Tyree -- and including Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz -- completed its acquisition of the papers on Oct. 26.
The Tribune earlier that day rebranded its sports section Chicago Sports and officially launched chicagobreakingsports.com. The new Chicago Breaking Sports site was conceived as an online source for sports news as it occurs in much the same way as the Tribune's chicagobreakingnews.com site does with real-time headlines and oft-updated dispatches.
Posted at 11:59:01 AM by Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune