The new publisher of the Reader is Tracy Baim, founder and longtime executive editor of the Windy City Times.
Tag: Associated Press
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As Trump kicks out reporters, the Washington Post declares war on ‘darkness’
As Trump bars reporters from press briefing, his media war heats up.
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Here’s what’s missing from the Police Accountability Task Force report
Poverty and segregation underlie many of our policing problems, but don’t expect a task force to address them.
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Propped-together dailies make a melancholy sight
“Our local papers make a melancholy sight leaning against each other for support.” Media critic Mike Miner looks at the new Sun-Times/Daily Herald content-sharing agreement.
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A second printing for Reader film critic J.R. Jones’s book on Robert Ryan
Having nearly sold out, The Lives of Robert Ryan gets a second pressing.
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Does ‘objective’ reporting distort the truth?
Recent instances of social injustice—like Eric Garner’s death—highlight the pitfalls of blind objectivity in the media.
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Notre Dame’s Father Hesburgh liked going to the office
Father Hesburgh worked to the end.
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The AP—how will it ever learn without its director of training?
Professional training at the AP hangs in the balance after the exec who ran it is fired.
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How press photographers got Pulitzer-winning pictures
Great pictures photographers got by doing what photographers do
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In Generation War, the kids are all Reich
Music Box presents the controversial German miniseries Generation War.
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The world according to the Trib’s Rex Huppke
The world according to the Trib’s Rex Huppke
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The undoing of a president’s mystique
What would have happened to JFK if he’d been scrutinized in the same way as Obama?
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Breaking: dispatches from a copy editors’ convention
The American Copy Editors Society gathers in New Orleans