From a Jack Shafer Fourth Estate column on politico.com headlined “Your Newspaper’s Not Making Money? Make It Permanent as a Nonprofit!”:
If you had predicted in 1970, the year of NPR’s founding, that someday a public radio station would acquire a big city daily, you would have been told to type your weird prophecy up and sell it to Amazing Stories magazine. But just such a deal went down in Chicago, where Chicago Public Media, the proprietors of NPR-affiliate WBEZ, said that it would take on the foundering Chicago Sun-Times as a nonprofit subsidiary.
