Sports columnist Rick Morrissey leaving Chicago Tribune for Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune |
Dec. 4, 2009 11:32 p.m.
Sports columnist Rick Morrissey is leaving the Chicago Tribune for the rival Sun-Times, Phil Rosenthal writes. Word of Morrissey’s exit reached the Tribune staff Friday evening in a note from Mike Kellams, the paper’s associate managing editor for sports. "Only a couple months ago, the Sun-Times and its sister papers teetered on the brink of liquidation but were rescued by a new ownership group led by businessman Jim Tyree and other local investors including Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz," Rosenthal writes. "The new owners obviously are looking to make a splash. Hiring Morrissey does that because the flow of the city’s best-known journalists in recent decades has primarily been from the Sun-Times to the Tribune, not the reverse."
