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Chicago Tribune Names Editor of Its Newspaper for Teens

Thursday 26. June 2008 - RedEye weekend editor, Tran Ha, takes top editorial job at Tribune's upcoming high school weekly

Chicago Tribune today announced that it has named Tran Ha the editor of a weekly high school newspaper and Web site that will debut this fall. The publication and Web site will feature content and images created by Chicago Public Schools high school students and edited by professional journalists. Previously Ha served as the weekend editor of RedEye, Chicago’s free daily newspaper.

“Teens in Chicago are unique and deserve a paper and Web site that speaks to them,” Ha said. “I’m looking forward to working with Chicago public high school students to bring the city a new, ground-breaking paper — one that gets students more interested in reading and writing.”

Ha joined the Chicago Tribune in 2003 as a copy editor for RedEye before moving to the Chicago Tribune’s features department as an assistant editor in October 2005. She returned to RedEye in April 2007 to launch RedEye’s weekend edition, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in May with over 100,000 subscribers.

Earlier this month, Chicago Tribune Media Group and Chicago Public Schools announced that this fall they will introduce a new weekly newspaper and Web site — currently using the working title, TheMash — that is aimed toward and largely written by CPS high school students. The newspaper will feature student-generated and student-targeted editorial content, with student contributors receiving on-the-job journalism training by Tribune editors, who will review and edit all content.