A severe storm Monday night that brought tornadoes across a wide swath of the Chicago-area didn’t just leave thousands of residents without power — it also left some without access to print newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times. Readers with home delivery service did not receive their Tuesday paper because of “production issues caused by severe weather,” according to the Chicago Tribune’s website. The Chicago Tribune Co.
prints the Sun-Times newspaper as well as the Tribune, Daily Herald, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other papers. Several newsstands in Chicago said they did not receive copies of either the Sun-Times or the Tribune on Tuesday. City Newsstand, which has a location in Portage Park and Evanston, said it received The New York Times but not the Wall Street Journal.
The companies said they expect delivery to resume Wednesday. The Sun-Times, as well as the Tribune, also told readers that home deliveries will and include Tuesday’s issue. Businesses like Millennium News and Views in the Loop said customers took notice and inquired about the lack of Chicago papers — something media business analyst Rick Edmonds described as a historic day for Chicago print media and just one of the impacts to the news business.
Edmonds, leader of news transformation at the Poynter Institute, said single-copy sales are already down nationally and days like Tuesday put commuters and readers out. “If we’re talking about some readers who are used to bu.
