Paul Zimbrakos influenced and trained countless young reporters at Chicago’s City News Bureau during more than four decades as an editor at the now-shuttered 24-7 wire service.
City Editor Heywood Hoffman, left, and Bureau Chief Paul Zimbrakos clean out the City News Bureau office on Dec. 30, 2005.
Zimbrakos originally had hoped to be a boxer, but he ultimately attended Roosevelt University before a stint in the Army, his brother George said. He returned to Roosevelt for his bachelor’s degree, and while at Roosevelt, he began working as a copy boy for the Chicago Daily News. As an editor, Zimbrakos took young reporters and “made us better in so many ways,” said former Tribune foreign correspondent and national editor Storer H. “Bob” Rowley, who worked for Zimbrakos from 1976 until 1979.
Another City News Bureau alumnus, Abdon M. Pallasch, later a Sun-Times reporter and now director of communications for the state comptroller’s office, said Zimbrakos was “old-school — a real gentleman.” “I really feel sorry for the young people who won’t get to come here,” Zimbrakos told the Tribune in October 1998. “I think there’s still a place for a training ground for reporters in this business.”
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