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Columns & Opinion, Opinion Apr 20, 2021
Media’s ‘utter lack of humanity’

Chicago police killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo, and some media responded by questioning Toledo’s character. Black and Brown kids deserve better.
- By Arionne Nettles
- Tags: Opinion, Adam Toledo, police brutality, Chicago Police Department, Chicago media, journalism, Laquan McDonald

Reader, Announcements Nov 12, 2020
Chicago Reader announces co-publisher team as the company moves to nonprofit

Tracy Baim, publisher for the past two years, will now be co-publisher alongside Karen Hawkins, who has been co-editor in chief with Sujay Kumar since 2019.
- Tags: Announcements, Chicago Reader, community-supported journalism, journalism, Karen Hawkins, Reader Institute for Community Journalism, RICJ, Sujay Kumar, Tracy Baim, Windy City Times

Reader, Press releases Sep 15, 2020
IRS approves Chicago Reader’s move to nonprofit model

Reader Institute for Community Journalism will take over operations from current owners on January 1
- Tags: Press releases, Chicago Reader, RICJ, Reader Institute for Community Journalism, Internal Revenue Service, 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, nonprofit media, journalism, community-supported journalism, Elzie Higginbottom, Leonard C. Goodman, Tracy Baim, President Dorothy Leavell, Eileen Rhodes, Sladjana Vuckovic

News & Politics, Feature Aug 13, 2020
This is my brain on local TV news

Thirteen and a half hours of broadcasts on looting leave a day of impressions without a trace.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Local news, TV news, looting, police shooting, police violence, theft, burglary, Magnificent Mile, Chicago looting, civil unrest, media bias, journalism, reporting, Latrell Allen, Englewood, Lincoln Park, ABC, NBC, CBS, WGN, FOX, ABC7, NBC5, CBS2, WGN9, FOX32, Dave Savini, Latricsa Allen, Father Michael Pfleger, Reverend Robin Hood, south side, west side, crime, news analysis

Reader, Announcements Nov 20, 2019
Chicago Reader to become a nonprofit newsroom

New model will launch in 2020
- Tags: Announcements, Chicago Reader, Elzie Higginbottom, Leonard Goodman, Reader Institute for Community Journalism, alternative newsmedia, alt-weeklies, Jessica Stites, Tracy Baim, Karen Hawkins, Sujay Kumar, Chicago Independent Media Alliance, CIMA, nonprofit media, journalism, community-supported journalism

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Oct 1, 2019
Recommended
Chicago Humanities Festival wants you to feel powerful

This season’s lineup focuses on harnessing the strength within.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Lit Feature, Chicago Humanities Festival, power, George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patti Smith, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rachel Maddow, Jesslyn Silva, journalism, Chicago Defender, Candyman, ravens, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2018
Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’

An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, Seymour Hersh, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Tribune, City News Bureau, CIA, Vietnam, Mai Lai, Martin Luther King, Mahalia Jackson, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, Donald Trump, Reporter, journalism, Eugene McCarthy

Blogs, Bleader May 12, 2018
Reader wins five awards from the Chicago Headline Club

The paper won Peter Lisagor Awards for in-depth, feature, and education reporting, photography, and arts criticism Friday night.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: News, Media, Behind Our Scenes, Chicago Headline Club, Peter Lisagor, journalism, Chicago Public Schools, Bill Morrison

News & Politics, Feature Feb 21, 2018
Edwin Eisendrath discusses the offensive Reader cover, staff diversity, and the paper’s future

Sun-Times Media CEO says, “We’re stabilizing.”
- By Adeshina Emmanuel
- Tags: Feature, Edwin Eisendrath, Adeshina Emmanuel, Mark Konkol, lawn jockey, J.B. Pritzker, Sun-Times Media, CEO, diversity, journalism, Chicago Reader, blackface cover, executive editor

Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 21, 2018
Busy drummer Ben Billington releases music from two of his bazillion bands

Plus: Black digital media platform the TRiiBE crowdfunds new projects, and Pivot Gang cofounder Frsh Waters headlines this month’s All Smiles.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Ben Billington, Ben Baker Billington, Ono, Quicksails, ADT, Moonrises, Tiger Hatchery, Gang of Ducks, The Bright, Insecurities, Hausu Mountain, The TRiiBE, Tiffany Walden, Morgan Elise Johnson, Block Beat, Vic Mensa, Hyde Park Records, Indiegogo, David Elutilo, fund-raiser, Another Life, journalism, documentary, multimedia, Pivot, Gang, Frsh Waters, All Smiles, Tonic Room, Rich Jones, Mr. Jackson, JBro Bugatti, DJ Elliven, Lynzie Jazzsun

Blogs, Bleader Jan 22, 2018
Majority of south- and west-siders feel Chicago media ‘too negative’ about their neighborhoods

But according to the results of a new survey, Chicagoans are willing to donate to news organizations and even get involved in coverage.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Media, News, University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Media Engagement, City Bureau, media, journalism, racial bias, Angela Ford, Chicago Defender

Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2017
Journalists will never be loved, least of all by Trump

But who cares? We're useful.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, Donald Trump, Thomas Friedman, Heather Wilhelm, National Review, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Russia, "Hamilton, " Meryl Streep, Gallup poll, journalism

Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2017
A farewell to Obama—our country’s most inclusive president

The audacious vision of a Chicago president changed politics as we knew it.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: News, Politics, Barack Obama, #ObamaFarewell, Michelle Obama, POTUS, president, politics, Chicago, Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention, media, journalism, McCormick Place, education, race, LGBT, identity

Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Jan 3, 2017
Eight political New Year’s resolutions you can actually keep

Yes, they’re about politics—because now everything is political.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Identity & Culture, News, 2017, New Year’s, 2016, new year’s resolution, social justice, people of color, women, LGBTQ, politics, Donald Trump, protest, activism, advocacy, books, volunteering, social media, journalism, news, media, books, publishing, politics, nonprofits

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2016
Video
John Oliver takes aim at Tronc

Last Week Tonight hilariously skewers the former Tribune Publishing.
- By Jake Malooley
- Tags: News, Media, Tronc, John Oliver, Tribune Publishing, Wolf Blitzer, Sam Zell, Last Week Tonight, journalism, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2016
Do only suckers pay for journalism?

A glimpse at the current state of journalism.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: News, Media, news, media, journalism, CQ, paywalls

Film, Movie Review Apr 16, 2015
Recommended
James Franco and Jonah Hill exploit each other in True Story

In this adaptation of Michael Finkel's confessional memoir, a murder suspect plays mind games with a reporter.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Rupert Goold, True Story, Jonah Hill, James Franco, journalism, New York Times Magazine, Christian Longo, Michael Finkel, Shattered Glass, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2015
Think you want to be a travel writer? A pro describes the 'not sexy' reality of the job

Freelance travel writer Elaine Glusac: "I’ve been projectile-vomited on on a plane."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: You Are Here, Chicagoans, Media, News, Elaine Glusac, travel writing, Chicagoans, You Are Here, journalism, Arctic Circle, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Departures, Afar, National Geographic Traveler, The Da Vinci Code, Michigan, Las Vegas

Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2014
Has anyone ever gone into journalism for the prestige?

As usual, the Harris Poll ranks journalists low in prestige
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Harris Poll, professions, prestige, journalism, science, doctors, real etate agents

Best of Chicago, City Life Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Reason to Stay Up Late on Twitter

@PeterNickeas
- By Jake Malooley
- Tags: City Life, Best of Chicago 2014, journalism, landscaping, Peter Nickeas, @PeterNickeas, Twitter, Green Pete's Lawn Care, Addison, Illinois, Chicago Tribune, overnight beat, crime reporting, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Jun 10, 2014
A journalist's moment of truth in a Nairobi slum

Debra Pickett writes a novel about a reporter who abandons her story
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Books, Media, News, Debra Pickett, "Reporting Lives, " Chicago Sun-Times, journalism, TV news, Kenya, Mathare, Nairobi, Global Alliance for Africa, Good Samaritan Home, Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2014
Chicago's press doesn't keep its politics honest, but it keeps Chicago Chicago

Reform in Chicago—a lovely idea
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Politics, News, Chicago, political corruption, political reform, Albert Camus, Sisyphus, journalism, WBEZ, "Afternoon Shift, " Joel Reese, Time Out Chicago, Tim Novak, Chris Fusco, Chicago Sun-Times, John Kass, Rahm Emanuel, "Grand Illusion, " James Merriner, Goo goos, "Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, "

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 22, 2014
The Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club rides again

Documentary photographer Danny Lyon's 1968 chronicle of a Chicago biker gang helped inspire Easy Rider. Now The Bikeriders revs up for a long-overdue reissue.
- By Patrick Sisson
- Tags: Lit Feature, 1960s, 1968, AMA, American Motorcycle Association, Aperture Press, Art Institute of Chicago, beer, books, BSA motorcycles, cannabis, CBS, Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, Chicago Tribune, Cicero, civil rights movement, Danny Lyon, documentary photography, DoubleTake, Easy Rider, Frank Jenner, George Plimpton, history, Hugh Edwards, Hunter S. Thompson, Hyde Park, Ida Noyes Hall, immersion journalism, interviews, John Lewis, journalism, Julian Bond, LIFE magazine, Lyons, marijuana, Martin Luther King, Jr., motorcycle gangs, motorcycles, New Journalism, New Mexico, New York, Phaidon Press, photographers, photography, photojournalism, Starved Rock, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, subcultures, The Wild One, Triumph motorcycles, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Festival of the Arts, Walker Evans

Columns & Opinion, On Media Feb 11, 2014
An 'obsessive' Sun-Times reporter is vindicated by the Vanecko case—but not content

Tim Novak and his fellow newsroom crusaders brought justice to the family of David Koschman. But former Mayor Daley’s administration got off easy in the investigation into the fatal punch thrown by Daley's nephew.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Tim Novak, journalism, investigative journalism, Patrick Daley, Robert Vanecko, R.J. Vanecko, David Koschman, Nancy Koschman, Mount Prospect, Chris Fusco, Chicago Police Department, CPD, Jody Weis, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Carol Marin, Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn, Rolando Cruz, crime, Paul Biebel, special prosecutors, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Michael Toomin, Dan Webb, justice, obsessiveness, secret partnerships, sewer inspections

Columns & Opinion, On Media Jan 2, 2014
Plenty of time to consider the Times

On figures that don't figure, and the advent of native ads
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, innumeracy, corrections, retractions, Jayson Blair, mistakes, The New York Times, newspapers, journalism, breast cancer, copy editors, cost cutting, Chicago Reader, mixed metaphors, Toledo, newspapers online, online corrections, Margaret Sullivan, statistics, literacy, Pope Francis, native advertising, digital advertising, digital media, editorial content, advertising, online advertising

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