Award-winning journalist Jim O'Shea is former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune and past editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times, the US's largest metropolitan daily. He is the founder and editor of the Chicago Newspaper Cooperative, and serves on the board of Creative Loafing, an alternative newspaper chain with publications in six U.S. cities.
<p> Kirkus, June 1, 2011<br> Numerous books have covered endangered daily newspapers, but few relate the sad saga from the perspective of a top editor with investigative reporting experience... Given O'Shea's level of detail and candor, some journalism icons will almost surely lose respect within their field...A spirited, fascinating insider's account of a troubled realm. <p> New Statesman, January 7, 2011<br> This book is a passionate and heavily researched account of the case against the cyber-utopians. The Chicago Reader, Michael Miner, June 17, 2011<br> The insider's tale O'Shea tells is that of an epic business disaster, placed in the context of the whole industry driving itself off a cliff...I'm 50 pages in and riveted. I expect to stay that way The Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Sneed, June 19, 2011<br> Loaded with Tribune Tower mayhem and monkeyshines, bankruptcy testimony, sexual innuendo, triggered security alarms, and a hysterical Tribune terrace escapade involving