but will they keep the food section?

Tribune Co files bankruptcy

They are the parent company of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune.
They need to get out from under the debt they took on after a spree of mergers and acquisitions, apparently after being unable to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team...

Maybe they can also cut their science reporting sub-departments.

h/t CR

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