Author: Jenny Gathright / Source: NPR.org
Jeff Light, editor and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, began Saturday morning by issuing an apology. “Most Union-Tribune subscribers were without a newspaper this morning as a computer virus infected the company’s business systems and hobbled the ability to publish,” Light wrote.
In a note posted on the Union-Tribune‘s website, Light described a computer virus that affected the computer systems for Tribune Publishing, the media company that used to own the Union-Tribune and currently owns multiple newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun and the Orlando Sentinel. Even though the Union-Tribune is no longer owned by Tribune Publishing, Light said it is “still transitioning away from the Tribune systems.”
Marisa Kollias, spokesperson for Tribune Publishing, wrote in a statement to NPR’s David Folkenflik: “On Friday, some of the print production systems at Tribune Publishing were interfered with, causing a delay in our production schedule.” Kollias said…
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