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Posted inBlogs

Mick Dumke Is Crossing the Street

by Michael Miner July 15, 2010August 19, 2021

Mick Dumke leaves the Chicago Reader for the Chicago News Cooperative

Courtroom sketch of Jon Burge as he was convicted, Monday, June 28
Posted inNews & Politics

Conroy on Burge

by Michael Miner July 8, 2010August 19, 2021

The reporter who’s spent 20 years investigating the police torture kingpin on why the perjury verdict surprised even him.

Posted inBlogs

An Encouraging Word for Tony Journalism

by Michael Miner July 6, 2010August 19, 2021

Beware — dumbed down journalism isn’t cheap.

Posted inBlogs

True, Not True

by J.R. Jones July 1, 2010August 19, 2021

Mediabistro misreports the firing of Reader editor Alison True.

Posted inBlogs

Alison Draper on Alison True

by Michael Miner June 29, 2010August 19, 2021

Alison Draper on why she fired Alison True as editor of the Chicago Reader

Posted inBlogs

Alison True Fired as Reader Editor

by Michael Miner June 25, 2010August 19, 2021

Alison True is fired as the editor of the Reader

Chicago Sun-Times, October 3, 2006
Posted inNews & Politics

Writing About Rape

by Michael Miner June 17, 2010August 19, 2021

In the bizarre case of convicted rapist Alan Wyman there are endless angles, most of them likely to offend somebody.

Posted inBlogs

Will the Creative Loafing Managers Line Up?

by Michael Miner August 7, 2009August 19, 2021

The present owners of Creative Loafing Inc. don’t think they can win an outright bidding war for control of the company. So CEO Ben Eason and his allies hope the bankruptcy judge in Tampa—who’s held the fate of the company in her hands since CLI filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 last September—will choose the […]

Posted inBlogs

A little TLC

by Michael Miner December 10, 2007August 19, 2021

Reporting the Reader’s layoffs, the New York Times’s David Carr offers a good word for John Conroy and investigative journalism. Lee Sandlin adds one for Reader editor Alison True.

Posted inBlogs

Through muscle, into bone

by Michael Miner December 6, 2007August 19, 2021

The Reader lays off Conroy, Marlan, Henderson, and Bogira

Posted inBlogs

The Reader has new owners

by Michael Miner July 24, 2007August 19, 2021

Chicago Reader and its sister Washington City Paper sold to Creative Loafing.

Posted inMusic

Two Reasons to Ignore Bob Dole/Water Sports/Schmitsville

by Bill Wyman June 15, 1995August 20, 2021

I’m good for rock ‘n’ roll!

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