Michael Miner
Bio:
Michael Miner has been a Chicago journalist since 1970. After eight years as a Sun-Times reporter and several months traveling in Europe, he joined the Reader as a writer and editor in 1979, yet his connection with this paper goes back to 1971, when he contributed an article to its first issue. At the Reader, Miner has won three Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club for his media criticism. One column close to his heart, though appropriately unrewarded, reflected on the nature of column writing and concluded that admiring readers are the scourge of the upright pundit. Another noteworthy article was a personal history of the Reader written for last October's 40th anniversary issue.
Michael Miner has been a Chicago journalist since 1970. After eight years as a Sun-Times reporter and several months traveling in Europe, he joined the Reader as a writer and editor in 1979, yet his connection with this paper goes back to 1971, when he contributed an article to its first issue. At the Reader, Miner has won three Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club for his media criticism. One column close to his heart, though appropriately unrewarded, reflected on the nature of column writing and concluded that admiring readers are the scourge of the upright pundit. Another noteworthy article was a personal history of the Reader written for last October's 40th anniversary issue.
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 12, 2009
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Window on a Lost World
The city as its first photojournalists saw it.
- News & Features, Feature, Jan 15, 2009
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Harold and Barack
Did personal dynamism—and not social or political movements—propel our highest-profile black leaders to power?
- News & Features, Feature, Jan 15, 2009
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Being Obama
You didn't have to drink the Kool-Aid to see that the country was transformed just by choosing him.
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 6, 2008
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We Knew It Would End This Way
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 9, 2008
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2 Good 2 B True
Paula met the man of her dreams on a Deadwood message board. She got to know his family and friends, even sent them Christmas presents sight unseen. Now she says a friend made them all up—and she's striking back.
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 21, 2008
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Barely on the Radar
Why are we getting big news about a U.S.-Israel defense deal from a North Shore synagogue's newsletter?
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 7, 2008
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Grant Pick’s People
Rag man, rug salesman, drag queen, neo-Nazi—if you lived in Chicago, Grant Pick wanted to hear your story.
- News & Features, Feature, Jan 12, 2006
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They Need It. We Waste It.
The powers that control the Great Lakes are fortifying the ramparts for the day the west runs out of water. The Chicago River is the chink in our armor.
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