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.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 15, 2012
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The nation's future, dimly seen
Stand by for change that won't be, actually
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Nov 14, 2012
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CPS's bizarre communication triangle
What led to former CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard's failure to communicate? Depends on who you ask.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 14, 2012
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Corruption is relative—the Tribune's Hastert scandal suffers by comparison
How the balance of a news section undercuts a story's revelations
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 14, 2012
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Blisters benefit for Santa helper
Blisters doing benefit for Santa's ally
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 13, 2012
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America—a constitutional theocracy
De Tocqueville's idea of religion's place in America is analogous to my idea of the place of the monarchy in Britain
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 8, 2012
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The dwindling minority of white male voters
The GOP's old dependables
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 7, 2012
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Sure and certain doom ahead for America
Pray for your country
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 6, 2012
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My vote—public knowledge
A troubling Election Day experience
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 6, 2012
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On the death of a young scientist, Allison Tovo-Dwyer
On science and the death of a young scientist
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 2, 2012
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Remembrances of elections past—the throbbing heart of freedom
Previous elections are recalled
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 1, 2012
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Newspaper circulation as simple as ABC
Under the ABC's revised counting system, the Sun-Times leads Chicago in circulation
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 31, 2012
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Undercover reporting—not as dead as you've heard
Brooke Kroeger's new book defends undercover journalism
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 29, 2012
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On criminalizing a failure to communicate
The Italian earthquake verdict and its lesson for journalists.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 25, 2012
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Obama versus the GOP—why isn't it on the fight card?
Why doesn't Obama run against the Republican Party?
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 23, 2012
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Steve Huntley says Romney won the foreign policy debate
The only person at the Sun-Times to pick Romney
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 23, 2012
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You Were Never in Chicago: Neil Steinberg comes of age
Neil Steinberg writes a memoir
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 23, 2012
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A glimpse of George McGovern in 1971
Compliments of Media Burn
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 22, 2012
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Murdoch, McCarthy—who's the greater menace to the dignity of Chicago journalism?
Trouble in Chicago: Sun-Times adds Jenny McCarthy while Murdoch reported kicking tires of Tribune
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 22, 2012
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Doing right by Studs Terkel
The author and columnist had a handle on war's unpleasantness some time ago
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 19, 2012
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Jeanne Gang tackles Prentice
The pictures of Jeanne Gang's proposed Prentice redo are sensational
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