John Lavine announces he’ll leave Medill next year
Tag: Media
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Adios, Radio Arte?
The National Museum of Mexican Art has decided to sell its award-winning youth-run bilingual radio station, Radio Arte, and the two-story building on the corner of 18th and Blue Island that’s home to both the station and Yollocalli Arts Reach, the museum’s youth art training program. That’s disturbing news to residents of the rapidly gentrifying […]
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1984
Forty Years: A weekly series in which we take a look at a specific year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader.
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Rahm’s Ballot Return: The World Reacts
The whole world’s watching Rahm Emanuel, and Dick Morris is asking for money.
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The Human Souls of Engineers
It is the nature of engineers to use physics to solve problems.
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Yet Another Tribute to Carlos Hernandez Gomez Because There Just Can’t Be Too Many
Carlos Hernandez Gomez, RIP
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Requiem for Reader’s Digest?
Oh, no: Reader’s Digest has filed for Chapter 11 (h/t Mike Riggs). It may surprise you, but that hits close to home for this liberal hippie type. I know it’s not true, but I tend to assume that 99% of Americans my age grew up reading Reader’s Digest (and Guideposts, which we had two subscriptions […]
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Who’s the Man? And Who’s the Dog He Bit?
Mark Brown: “Some readers, viewers and listeners, however, believe they have detected a pattern all right: that all it takes to make news on the North Side is a mugging while on the South Side it pretty much requires somebody getting killed, and even then, there has to be a sympathetic victim or other extenuating […]
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What Kashmir Hill said
Above the Law blogger Kashmir Hill has a great piece in response to Ian Shapira’s Gawker-is-killing-teh-journalism story. Worth reading for her delivery of just desserts to big news orgs (are dailies killing the blogs?!?), but this jumped out:
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Today in logical flaws
Browsing the latest developments in the Creative Loafing bankruptcy case, this jumped out at me. I don’t intend to kick a man when he’s down, but it is, as they say, a Teaching Moment:
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But did he call it Public Enemy #1?
If the Internet had existed when John Dillinger died, this would have shut down TMZ.
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Walter Cronkite, Jon Stewart, and trust
A meaningless – and not just meaningless but bad – Time.com poll that “found” Jon Stewart is the most trusted news anchor is worrying journalist types; a heated but shallow discussion on Facebook set me off, and now it’s on the Trib and HuffPo and you’re just going to have to indulge me for a […]
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One more thing about the TribCo bonuses
“We must continue motivating our people to overcome obstacles, achieve our performance goals and take the company to the next level.” Where I come from, that’s called DOING YOUR JOB.
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Freedom of sex taping?
I was hoping to be able to pretend that the Erin Andrews voyeur tape didn’t exist after the Sun-Times alerted me to its fetid existence this morning–can’t find the link, but the gist was that if you try to download the video you’ll get whatever horrible computer virus you deserve–but this post by Creative Loafing […]
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Steroids: Black Mark or Gray Area?
Baseball scribes would rather moralize about performance-enhancing drugs than make hard decisions about whether their use should keep players out of the Hall of Fame.