Article: Chicago Tribune, Magazine Unlikely to Work Together Despite Merger.

Byline: Jim Kirk

Aug. 1--The biggest surprise in the Chicago Tribune's purchase of Chicago magazine isn't that two of the city's best-known publications came together.

It's that they won't go out of their way to work together.

For years, the newspaper and its parent, Tribune Co., have preached a steady strategy to Wall Street and virtually anyone who would listen: Success in a converging media world would be largely dependent on synergy, or cooperation between business units and across media platforms--publishing, broadcasting and the Internet.

That meant sharing content, jointly selling advertising and cross-promoting products.

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