City News Bureau of Chicago

City News Bureau of Chicago (CNB), or City Press (1890–2005), was a news bureau that served as one of the first cooperative news agencies in the United States. It was founded in 1890 by the newspapers of Chicago to provide a common source of local and breaking news and also used by them as a training ground for new reporters, described variously as "journalism's school of hard knocks" or "the reporter's boot camp." Hundreds of reporters "graduated" from the City News Bureau into newspaper dailies—both local and national—or other avenues of writing.

This article is about the former news bureau. For the newer civic journalism non-profit, see City Bureau.

City News Bureau of Chicago
IndustryNews agency
Founded1890
Defunct2005
HeadquartersChicago
Key people
Walter Spirko
Arnold Dornfeld
Melvyn Douglas
Susan Kuczka
Paul Zimbrakos
Milton Golin
Bernard Judge
Isaac Gershman
Joseph Reilly
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