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{{About|the Chicago newspaper||Red eye (disambiguation){{!}}Red eye}}
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{{Infobox newspaper
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = RedEye
| name = RedEye
| image = [[Image:RedEye front page.jpg|225px|border]]
| image = [[Image:RedEye front page.jpg|225px|border]]
| caption = The December 6, 2010 front page<br/>of ''RedEye''
| caption = The December 6, 2010 front page<br/>of ''RedEye''
| type = Daily [[newspaper]]
| type = Weekly [[newspaper]]
| format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
| format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
| foundation = {{start date|October 2002}}<ref name="ST01">{{cite web |last=Mullman |first=Jeremy |date=October 4, 2005 |title=Sun-Times may end Red Streak tabloid |url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20051004/NEWS01/200018000/sun-times-may-end-red-streak-tabloid |access-date=August 11, 2010 |work=[[Crain's Chicago Business]]}}</ref>
| foundation = {{start date|2002}}
| owners = [[Tribune Company]]
| owners = [[Tribune Publishing]]
| editor = Lauren Chval
| publisher = [[Maggie Wartik]]
| circulation = 250,000<ref name="circulation-trib">
| editor = Kristin Samuelson
{{cite news
| circulation = 250,000<ref name="circulation-trib">{{cite news |title=Chicago Tribune's RedEye to increase distribution |first=Phil |last=Rosenthal |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=December 2, 2009 |url=http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/12/chicago-tribunes-redeye-to-increase-distribution.html |accessdate=August 12, 2010}}</ref><ref name="circulation-redeye">{{cite news |title=You asked, we deliver -- Coming soon: More RedEye, more places |first=Scott |last=Kleinberg |newspaper=RedEye |date=December 2, 2009 |url=http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/2009/12/you-asked-we-deliver----coming-soon-more-redeye-more-places.html |accessdate=August 12, 2010}}</ref>
|title=Chicago Tribune's RedEye to increase distribution
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| headquarters = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]],<br/>[[United States]]
|first=Phil |last=Rosenthal
| ISSN =
|newspaper=Chicago Tribune
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| website = {{url|www.redeyechicago.com}}
|date=December 2, 2009
|url=http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/12/chicago-tribunes-redeye-to-increase-distribution.html
|access-date=August 12, 2010
}}</ref><ref name="circulation-redeye">
{{cite news
|title=You asked, we deliver -- Coming soon: More RedEye, more places
|first=Scott |last=Kleinberg
|newspaper=RedEye
|date=December 2, 2009
|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/2009/12/you-asked-we-deliver----coming-soon-more-redeye-more-places.html
|access-date=August 12, 2010}}</ref>
| ceased publication = {{end date|March 19, 2020}}
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| headquarters = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]],<br/>United States
| ISSN =
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| website = {{url|www.redeyechicago.com}}
}}
}}
'''''RedEye''''' was a publication put out by the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' geared toward 18 to 34-year-olds. It was published every weekday since its inception in 2002 until February 3, 2017. Publication was reduced to weekly starting February 9, 2017. Daily circulation was 250,000 as of December 2, 2009.<ref name="circulation-trib" /><ref name="circulation-redeye" /><ref name=Tribune2017Jan10>
{{cite web
|quote=The last daily print issue of RedEye will be Feb. 3, with the first weekly issue published on Feb. 9.
|author=Channick, Robert
|title=RedEye reboots as weekly entertainment publication
|date=January 10, 2017
|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-redeye-restructure-0111-biz-20170110-story.html
|publisher=Chicago Tribune
|access-date=June 1, 2017
}}</ref> The final issue was published March 19, 2020, a coronavirus edition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chicago Red Eye |url=https://digitaledition.chicagoredeye.com/html5/desktop/production/default.aspx?pubid=398df001-6622-4755-89e8-a88d13f18bf5 |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=digitaledition.chicagoredeye.com |language=en-US}}</ref>


==Competition==
The '''''RedEye''''' is a daily publication put out by the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' 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 Company]] began publishing the ''RedEye'' in an effort to pull readers back into readership and eventually migrate them into the big edition (''Tribune'').<ref name="ST01">{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=18000 |title=Sun-Times may end Red Streak tabloid |last=Mullman |first=Jerry |date=October 4, 2005 |work=Chicago Business |publisher=Crain's |accessdate=August 11, 2010}}</ref>
''RedEye'' was created because of the ''Chicago Tribune'' and other major newspapers' loss of readership among young people. [[Tribune Company]] began publishing the ''RedEye'' in an effort to pull readers back into readership and eventually migrate them into the big edition (''Tribune'').<ref name="ST01"/>


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.<ref name="ST01"/> After about 6 months of the free papers, both companies placed vending boxes throughout the city with the papers thereafter costing 25 cents.
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 "[[Hawker (trade)|hawkers]]" on street corners, usually with one vendor from each paper directly next to each other.<ref name="ST01"/> After about six 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 ''RedEye'''s attempt at drawing commuters, customers which have historically belonged to the ''Sun-Times''.<ref name="ST01"/> At the beginning of 2006, ''RedEye'' became a free paper once again, with vending boxes being unlocked and coin slots covered over.

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 ''RedEye'''s attempt at drawing commuters, customers which have historically belonged to the ''Sun-Times''.<ref name="ST01"/>

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 Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld|Red Eye]]'', the Tribune Company filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/business/story/3556973p-12784930c.html |title=Tribune Sues Fox News Over 'Red Eye' |work=The News Tribune}}{{Dead link|date=August 2010}}</ref>
In February 2007, after [[NewsCorp]] launched a late-night talk television program on [[Fox News]] entitled ''[[Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld|Red Eye]]'', the Tribune Company filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/business/story/3556973p-12784930c.html |title=Tribune Sues Fox News Over 'Red Eye' |work=The News Tribune}}{{Dead link|date=August 2010}}</ref>
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==Content==
==Content==
[[Image:Redeye Sailboat.jpg|thumb|200px|A ''RedEye'' sailboat on [[Labor Day]] 2007 viewed from North Avenue Beach]]
[[Image:Redeye Sailboat.jpg|thumb|200px|A ''RedEye'' sailboat on [[Labor Day]] 2007 viewed from North Avenue Beach]]
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:EN-Chicago-Logo-Newspaper-R.jpg|left]] -->As compared with mainstream newspapers, ''RedEye'' strongly emphasizes [[pop culture]] and entertainment news; humorous or lighthearted rather than serious [[newspaper column|columns]], and flashy graphics and large pictures. Like the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', ''RedEye'' is a [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]]-format newspaper, oriented vertically rather than horizontally and with a front page consisting only of a large picture and a banner headline.
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:EN-Chicago-Logo-Newspaper-R.jpg|left]] -->As compared with mainstream newspapers, ''RedEye'' strongly emphasized [[popular culture|pop culture]] and entertainment news, humorous or lighthearted rather than serious [[newspaper column|columns]], and flashy graphics and large pictures. Like the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', ''RedEye'' is a [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]]-format newspaper, oriented vertically rather than horizontally and with a front page consisting only of a large picture and a banner headline.


== Publication changes ==
''RedEye'' is published five times a week and has a circulation of 250,000 as of December 2, 2009.<ref name="circulation-trib" /><ref name="circulation-redeye" />
After 15 years of daily distribution, ''RedEye'' shifted to a weekly format in 2017<ref>{{Cite news |last=Armentrout |first=Mitchell |date=January 10, 2017 |title=RedEye cutting down to weekly format |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/1/10/18386443/redeye-cutting-down-to-weekly-format |access-date=September 12, 2017 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |language=en}}</ref> before it stopped publishing in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.


==Notes and references==
==Notes and references==
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==External links==
==External links==

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* {{official website|http://www.redeyechicago.com}}
{{Commons category|RedEye}}
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* {{official website|https://digitaledition.chicagoredeye.com}}


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Latest revision as of 17:50, 3 April 2024

For other uses, see Red eye (disambiguation).
RedEye
The December 6, 2010 front page
of RedEye
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Tribune Publishing
EditorLauren Chval
FoundedOctober 2002 (October 2002)[1]
Ceased publicationMarch 19, 2020 (March 19, 2020)
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois,
United States
Circulation250,000[2][3]
Websitewww.redeyechicago.com

RedEye was a publication put out by the Chicago Tribune geared toward 18 to 34-year-olds. It was published every weekday since its inception in 2002 until February 3, 2017. Publication was reduced to weekly starting February 9, 2017. Daily circulation was 250,000 as of December 2, 2009.[2][3][4] The final issue was published March 19, 2020, a coronavirus edition.[5]

Competition

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RedEye was created because of the Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers' loss of readership among young people. Tribune Company began publishing the RedEye in an effort to pull readers back into readership and eventually migrate them into the big edition (Tribune).[1]

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.[1] After about six 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 RedEye's attempt at drawing commuters, customers which have historically belonged to the Sun-Times.[1] 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 Eye, the Tribune Company filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit.[6]

Content

[edit]
A RedEye sailboat on Labor Day 2007 viewed from North Avenue Beach

As compared with mainstream newspapers, RedEye strongly emphasized 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 tabloid-format newspaper, oriented vertically rather than horizontally and with a front page consisting only of a large picture and a banner headline.

Publication changes

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After 15 years of daily distribution, RedEye shifted to a weekly format in 2017[7] before it stopped publishing in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b c d Mullman, Jeremy (October 4, 2005). "Sun-Times may end Red Streak tabloid". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Rosenthal, Phil (December 2, 2009). "Chicago Tribune's RedEye to increase distribution". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Kleinberg, Scott (December 2, 2009). "You asked, we deliver -- Coming soon: More RedEye, more places". RedEye. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  4. ^ Channick, Robert (January 10, 2017). "RedEye reboots as weekly entertainment publication". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 1, 2017. The last daily print issue of RedEye will be Feb. 3, with the first weekly issue published on Feb. 9.
  5. ^ "Chicago Red Eye". digitaledition.chicagoredeye.com. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  6. ^ "Tribune Sues Fox News Over 'Red Eye'". The News Tribune.[dead link‍]
  7. ^ Armentrout, Mitchell (January 10, 2017). "RedEye cutting down to weekly format". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
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