by: Jim Romenesko | JimRomenesko.com

The Chicago Tribune is hiring 44-year newsroom veteran Randy Weissman as a consultant to help develop and implement appropriate changes at embattled Journatic and the Chicago Tribune, which has invested in the hyper-local content provider. The paper announced a week ago that it was suspending use of Journatic after discovering that a TribLocal sports story was plagiarized and had a fabricated quote.