“Good things come to those who wait,” the adage goes. Back in the summer of 2009, I found myself in Chicago as an alternative journalism fellow at Medill, and I quickly fell in love with the city, its people, culture, and greasy spoons (if I close my eyes and concentrate hard enough, I can still […]
Tag: journalism
Posted inFilm
Rewriting the rules of journalism (with fire)
“They have found their way to work within a system that’s designed to exclude them.”
Posted inReader events
Journalism and Police Accountability: Perspectives from the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Torture Justice Center
Reader co-publisher Karen Hawkins, former Reader reporter John Conroy, Aislinn Pulley, co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, and Mark Clements, an activist and police torture survivor discussed the role of journalism in uncovering police violence.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Media’s ‘utter lack of humanity’
Chicago police killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo, and some media responded by questioning Toledo’s character. Black and Brown kids deserve better.
Posted inReader
Chicago Reader announces co-publisher team as the company moves to nonprofit
Tracy Baim, publisher for the past two years, will now be co-publisher alongside Karen Hawkins, who has been co-editor in chief with Sujay Kumar since 2019.
Posted inPress releases
IRS approves Chicago Reader’s move to nonprofit model
The new Reader Institute for Community Journalism, Inc. (RICJ) has received 501(c)(3) nonprofit status from the Internal Revenue Service. On January 1, 2021, RICJ will take over the Chicago Reader newspaper from its current owners.
Posted inNews & Politics
This is my brain on local TV news
Thirteen and a half hours of broadcasts on looting leave a day of impressions without a trace.
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago Humanities Festival wants you to feel powerful
This season’s lineup focuses on harnessing the strength within.
Posted inBlogs
Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
Posted inBlogs
Reader wins five awards from the Chicago Headline Club
The paper won Peter Lisagor Awards for in-depth, feature, and education reporting, photography, and arts criticism Friday night.
Posted inNews & Politics
Edwin Eisendrath discusses the offensive Reader cover, staff diversity, and the paper’s future
Sun-Times Media CEO says, “We’re stabilizing.”
Posted inMusic
Busy drummer Ben Billington releases music from two of his bazillion bands
Busy drummer Ben Billington releases music from two of his bazillion bands, black digital media platform the TRiiBE crowdfunds new projects, and more.
Posted inBlogs
Majority of south- and west-siders feel Chicago media ‘too negative’ about their neighborhoods
But according to the results of a new survey, Chicagoans are willing to donate to news organizations and even get involved in coverage.
