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Steve Rhodes Leaves NBCChicago.com
Steve Rhodes quits his gig writing for the NBC Chicago Web site.
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Is This the Future of Chicago Journalism?
The Chicago Community Trust is scattering half a million dollars in seed money to support 12 innovative local journalism projects. It’s a new program, Community News Matters, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ($250,000) and the John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation ($100,000) as well as CCT; spokesperson Vivian Vahlberg says […]
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Talk of the weather will do
Send not to know where the lost season went.We’ve been spared our summer of discontent. The Beachwood Reporter’s J.J. Tindall on that weather we’ve been having.
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Down the cash for clunkers chain
The Wall Street Journal has a neat piece about how the Cash For Clunkers program has created a boom market for the compound officially required to kill car engines; one local chemical company is raking it in. Via the Beachwood Reporter, where there’s a good discussion of the benefits of the government program. One data […]
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Future of Media: The Young Turk Edition
Among the conclusions at last week’s Chicago Media Future Conference: professional journalism is an anomaly, nobody’s ever really paid for news, and if you see a helicopter, you can surmise for yourself that the president’s in town.
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Chicago Media Future Conference: We mean it, man
Not so much a roundup of the Chicago Media Future Conference as a search-and-rescue mission for some of the important details.
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Zorn v. Rhodes
Eric Zorn and Steve Rhodes exchange unpleasantries about where journalism’s going, as Rhodes defends his visionary bona fides.
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Chicago’s best blog?
The Trib is asking for your best local blog votes. Here’s a cheat sheet, and my pick for the worst.
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No one here told John Conroy to lay off police torture
Contrary to published reports and bloggers’ glee, John Conroy’s police torture reporting was welcome at the Reader.
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Second City or Late Roman Empire or . . . neither
Steve Rhodes on the New Yorker on Grant Achatz.
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Around Town: A surgeon speaks, Shanahan dances, and more
A surgeon speaks, Shanahan dances, and more.
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Why ban books when you can brand them?
No matter what you read on the bus, someone will hate you for it.
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Best of Chicago blogging
Alex Kotlowitz on the Wire, Scott Gordon on the CTA, and Mike Klonsky on the 16-minute gym class.