The board of directors of the Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), publishers of the Chicago Reader, has announced that Tracy Baim is stepping down as president and publisher at the end of 2022.
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Chicago Reader hires social justice reporter
Writer Debbie-Marie Brown hired for this position, made possible in part by grant funding from the Field Foundation.
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The Reader is available free of charge at more than 1,100 Chicago area locations. Issues are dated Thursday, and distributed Wednesday morning through Thursday night of the issue date. Some locations are restocked the following Wednesday.
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[PRESS RELEASE] Lawyers for Social Justice Reception
CHICAGO — The Reader Institute for Community Journalism is hosting the Lawyers for Social Justice reception on Thursday, July 28, at City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, at 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., with program at 6:00 p.m. Speakers: Jill Wine-Banks, Author, The Watergate Girl; MSNBC analyst; co-host, #SistersInLaw and iGenPolitics Podcasts, Jason DeSanto, Senior Lecturer at Northwestern […]
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Lawyers for Social Justice Reception
At City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, ChicagoThursday, July 28, 20225:30 – 7:30 p.m., with program at 6:00 p.m. The Reader Institute for Community Journalism highlights the intersections of law and journalism at the Lawyers for Social Justice reception. Speakers: Jill Wine-Banks, Author, The Watergate Girl; MSNBC analyst; co-host, #SistersInLaw and iGenPolitics Podcasts, Jason DeSanto, Senior Lecturer at […]
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Reader co-publisher Karen Hawkins to move to The 19th*
Karen Hawkins, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Reader, is leaving the organization to become story editor with The 19th*, an independent, national nonprofit newsroom reporting on the intersection of gender, politics, and policy
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Chicago Reader formally completes transition to nonprofit
Sale documents were signed May 16, 2022, to transfer ownership of the Chicago Reader to the Reader Institute for Community Journalism, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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The Chicago Reader will be fully nonprofit
It is with excitement that we are able to (finally) announce that the Chicago Reader is transitioning fully to its nonprofit status under the Reader Institute for Community Journalism!
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The Chicago Reader is free—again—and still freaky
Reader co-owner Leonard C. Goodman has reportedly dropped his opposition to the newspaper’s transition to a full nonprofit.
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How has becoming the owner of one of Illinois’s first cannabis cultivations contributed to your family’s agricultural legacy? My husband’s family has farmed in Fulton and McDonough County for six generations. This in itself is the legacy and something to be proud of. It has been generations of hard work and family effort that made […]
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Panel weighs problems and solutions at Cook County domestic violence court
The Chicago Reader and Injustice Watch hosted a panel discussion Tuesday about the challenges that survivors of domestic violence face navigating the Cook County court system. The event came on the heels of an investigation that the two journalism organizations published in January that highlighted allegations of misogyny against the former presiding judge of the […]