Chicago Tribune Managing Editor Jane Hirt will leave “to pursue personal interests,” Robert Channick reports in the Tribune.
“I’m grateful to the Chicago Tribune for so many years of opportunities. Never a dull moment,” Hirt tweeted Wednesday.
Hirt began her career at the Tribune as an intern. She was named managing editor in 2008. She helped launch the paper’s free paper RedEye and guided the Tribune’s transition toward digital newsgathering and publishing. She plans to “take an extended break from the daily grind of journalism, with relaxing, travel, volunteer work and perhaps learning a new language on her relatively short to-do list,” Channick writes.
“Jane Hirt is an accomplished managing editor, newsroom mentor, and exceptional leader whose 25 years of contributions to Chicago Tribune are well documented,” a Chicago Tribune Media Group spokesperson told Poynter in an email. “While her departure leaves a void in our newsroom and, more importantly, our hearts, we support her decision to begin a new chapter in her life and wish her the very best.”
It’s been an honor and a privilege working alongside the courageous and dedicated journalists of the Chicago Tribune.
— JaneHirt (@JaneHirt) November 12, 2014
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