Staffers picketed Reader co-owner Leonard C. Goodman’s Lakeview home in support of the city’s oldest free alt-weekly.
Tag: Media
Posted inNews
A farewell to the A.V. Club
The Chicago-based pop culture site moves to Los Angeles, leaving many worried about its fate.
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Interview with podcaster Aaron Smith: ‘Get to the root of the person’
Season three of Escaping the Odds, a podcast about entrepreneurship for the formerly incarcerated, dropped Tuesday.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Why the Reader is worth saving
The paper has provided a home to a long list of truth tellers.
Posted inBlogs
Alec Klein, Northwestern professor accused of sexual misconduct, resigns
Six months after former students accused him of sexual harassment and bullying, the award-winning journalist, a director at the Medill Justice Project, resigns.
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19 more women accuse Northwestern professor Alec Klein of misconduct, group says
Medill Me Too publishes a new letter with additional claims the group has received about Klein’s behavior since ten women came forward initially.
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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.
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One question for Ira Glass
After his talk at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, the Reader asked the godfather of audio storytelling one simple question
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The FOP’s new spokesman believes in a vast left-wing media conspiracy
Martin Preib has accused Chicago journalists of being in cahoots with Northwestern University and others to vilify cops.
Posted inBlogs
The media is itching for a fight with Trump
Journalists preparing to enter the age of Trump are rolling up their sleeves.
Posted inBlogs
A farewell to Obama—our country’s most inclusive president
The audacious vision of a Chicago president changed politics as we knew it.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Eight political New Year’s resolutions you can actually keep
Yes, they’re about politics—because now everything is political.
Posted inBlogs
The Chicago Police Department once published a magazine featuring crime-fighting tactics—and casserole recipes
CPD printed the glossy lifestyle magazine Main 13 between 1921 and ’23.
Posted inBlogs
Tronc seeks automatons to work on ‘news content harvesting robots’
The former Tribune Publishing trots out still more digital-media buzzwords.
