Younger reporters seem excited, while the older generation is mostly keeping its head down.
Tag: Gerould Kern
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Future of Lucas Museum in jeopardy, missing man found dead in Avalon Park, and other Chicago news
Also, the history of Chicago Public Schools’ financial mismanagement, and Sandra Bland’s mother introduces Hillary Clinton at a Bronzeville campaign rally.
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Defining ‘newsworthy’
At the Tribune, the news is whatever it reports, whenever it feels like it
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Cellini goes fishing
How will the Tribune respond to Judge Zagel’s order to hand over notes on a brief encounter with a Cellini juror?
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James O’Shea narrates the Tribune Company’s epic collapse
Days before my review copy of James O’Shea’s The Deal From Hell came in the mail, a friend who’d read an excerpt of O’Shea’s account of the Tribune Company-Times Mirror merger and its calamitous aftermath e-mailed me to rip the author. At issue: O’Shea’s failure to be up-front about the friendship between his ex-boss Ann […]
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Gerould Kern: Still There
Thoughts on Tribune editor Gerould Kern, as the frat rats he worked for exit.
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The Tribune’s Editor to His Troops at the End of a Difficult Week
Tribune editor Gerould Kern rallies his troops
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Bonuses Yes, Raises No
Tribune Company awards big executive bonuses but withholds staff raises.
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The Reader’s New Publisher Is an Edit Guy
A former features editor of the Chicago Tribune is hired as publisher of the Chicago Reader.
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The Tribune finally plugs its cartoonist hole with Scott Stantis
Out-of-towner plans to go native.
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The IFC TV media town hall
Gerould Kern, Don Hayner, Carol Marin, and Carl Bernstein, are among the panelists at a discussion of one of the hot topics of the moment staged by IFC TV: journalism and its troubles.
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Marketing and packaging the news at the Tribune
Chicago Tribune staff declares that asking readers what they think of stories that haven’t been written yet is going too far — and editor Gerould Kern agrees.