Sun-Times group latest US publisher to file for bankruptcy

Apr. 1, 2009
THE SUN-TIMES Media Group, publisher of the and 58 smaller newspapers in the Chicago suburbs, yesterday became the fifth US newspaper publisher in the last four months to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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