The
RedEye is a daily publication put out by the
Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company...
geared toward 18 to 34-year-olds.
RedEye (not to be confused with
Red Eye, or
Red-Eye, or other popular international websites and business sharing the same name) was created due in part to the loss of readership among young people of the
Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers.
Tribune CompanyThe Tribune Company is a large, employee-owned, American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Baltimore Sun...
began publishing the
RedEye in an effort to pull readers back into readership and eventually migrate them into the big edition (
Tribune).
When
RedEye appeared, it was in direct competition with another paper
Red Streak, which the
Tribune's Chicago competitor the
Sun Times began publishing at the same time.
The
RedEye is a daily publication put out by the
Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company...
geared toward 18 to 34-year-olds.
RedEye (not to be confused with
Red Eye, or
Red-Eye, or other popular international websites and business sharing the same name) was created due in part to the loss of readership among young people of the
Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers.
Tribune CompanyThe Tribune Company is a large, employee-owned, American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Baltimore Sun...
began publishing the
RedEye in an effort to pull readers back into readership and eventually migrate them into the big edition (
Tribune).
When
RedEye appeared, it was in direct competition with another paper
Red Streak, which the
Tribune's Chicago competitor the
Sun Times began publishing at the same time. Initially, both papers were handed out for free by "hawkers" on street corners, usually with one vendor from each paper directly next to each other. After about 6 months of the free papers, both companies placed vending boxes throughout the city with the papers thereafter costing 25 cents.
At the end of 2005, the
Sun Times discontinued
Red Streak. According to
Sun Times publisher John Cruickshank,
Red Streak was only launched "to stop [the
Tribune] from gaining a foothold in the paid tabloid market...". Its only purpose was to undermine
RedEyes attempt at drawing commuters, customers which have historically belonged to the Sun Times
.
At the beginning of 2006, RedEye
became a free paper once again, with vending boxes being unlocked and coin slots covered over.
In February 2007, after NewsCorp launched a late-night talk television program on Fox News entitled Red EyeRed Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld is a late-night/early morning talk show on the Fox News Channel, airing at 3:00 a.m. ET Tuesday through Saturday, with repeats on Sunday and Monday at 12:00 a.m. ET,. The show covers a variety of topics, including news, entertainment, sports, and gossip...
, the Tribune Company filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit.
Chicago native and rapper
TwistaCarl Terrell Mitchell, better known by his stage name Twista , is an American rapper who once held the title of fastest emcee in the world, according to the Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to pronounce 11.2 syllables per second. His 2004 album Kamikaze went to number-one on the U.S...
wrote a column for RedEye called "Twista's Turn", where he shares his thoughts and answers readers' questions. Other noted columnists include Kyra Kyles, Stephen Markley, Tracy Swartz and sports columnists Bag Boy and Scott Bolohan.
Content
As compared with mainstream newspapers, RedEye
strongly emphasizes pop culture and entertainment news; humorous or lighthearted rather than serious columns, and flashy graphics and large pictures. Like the Chicago Sun-Times
, RedEye
is a tabloidA tabloid is an industry term for a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed free of charge ; or to a newspaper that tends to sensationalize and emphasize or exaggerate or...
-format newspaper, oriented vertically rather than horizontally and with a front page consisting only of a large picture and a banner headline.
RedEye is published six times a week and has a circulation of 200,000 making it the largest weekday newspaper distribution in the City of Chicago.
See also
- Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company...
- Journalism
Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the mobile phone...
- Mass media
Mass media denotes a section of the media specifically designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. The term was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines. However, some forms of mass media such...
- Newspaper
A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an editorial page containing columns that express the...
- Tribune Company
The Tribune Company is a large, employee-owned, American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Baltimore Sun...
- Red Streak
The Red Streak was a tabloid format newspaper published in Chicago from October 2002 to December 2005. It was published by the Chicago Sun-Times as competitor to RedEye published by the Chicago Tribune....
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