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Posted inNews & Politics

Why Would a Pro Write for HuffPo?

by Michael Miner January 15, 2009August 19, 2021

One freelancer explains why she’ll work gratis for a $200 million company

Posted inNews & Politics

Send In the Clowns

by Michael Miner January 8, 2009August 19, 2021

Everybody’s got something to say about Illinois politics, but nobody’s saying it funny enough.

Posted inBlogs

The Chi-Town Daily News gets $150,000 in new grants.

by Michael Miner December 19, 2008August 19, 2021

The online Chi-Town Daily News gets $150,000 more in grants to add four reporters

Posted inNews & Politics

Fitzgerald’s Timing

by Michael Miner December 18, 2008August 19, 2021

Did he compromise his own investigation to sound the alarm on Blago? Or did the Tribune do it for him?

Posted inNews & Politics

Chicago Needs a New News Model

by Michael Miner December 11, 2008August 19, 2021

And here are a couple ideas—just add money.

Posted inNews & Politics

War Crimes and Other Misdemeanors

by Michael Miner November 27, 2008August 19, 2021

Deborah Nelson’s new book documents Vietnam atrocities the army did nothing to stop

Posted inNews & Politics

Let the Finger-Pointing Begin

by Michael Miner November 20, 2008August 19, 2021

As the fourth estate founders, journalists and their readers alike ask: who can we blame?

Posted inNews & Politics

Defusing the F-Bomb

by Michael Miner November 13, 2008August 19, 2021

Do we really want the courts to take all the fun out of swearing?

Posted inNews & Politics

Defusing the F-Bomb

by Michael Miner November 13, 2008August 19, 2021

Do we really want the courts to take all the fun out of swearing?

Posted inNews & Politics

Death by a Thousand Cuts

by Michael Miner November 6, 2008August 19, 2021

A blue view of newspapering from an industry veteran

Posted inNews & Politics

Mañana

by Michael Miner October 23, 2008August 19, 2021

A former general manager of Hoy bets on a new magazine for next-generation Chicago Latinos.

Posted inNews & Politics

To Serve and Project

by Michael Miner October 16, 2008August 19, 2021

A newspaper’s voice should be more than the expression of its readers’ collective thoughts.

Posted inNews & Politics

Colonel McCormick, Get Ready to Roll Over

by Michael Miner September 25, 2008August 19, 2021

Is this the year the Tribune will endorse its first Democrat for president?

Posted inNews & Politics

Fact and Opinion

by Michael Miner September 18, 2008August 19, 2021

It’s all just content now.

Posted inNews & Politics

A Pioneering Flop

by Michael Miner September 4, 2008August 19, 2021

Author Ron Rapoport, a former Sun-Times sportswriter, on Tim & Tom, the book excerpted on our cover this week.

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