- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, May 22, 2013
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When push comes to shove, should laid-off journalists sue?
Terminations of newspaper employees aren't what they used to be—just ask labor lawyer Sheribel Rothenberg.
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Apr 3, 2013
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Are baseball predictions—and by extension our annual Golden BAT awards—falling out of fashion?
The Tribune's Mark Gonzales is the winner of our 33rd annual Baseball Acumen Test. But the playing field is smaller.
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Feb 20, 2013
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Al Jazeera America is hiring
And it's a sign of the times that 12,000 resumés are awaiting review.
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Feb 6, 2013
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Son of the Sun-Times
In his new memoir, After Visiting Friends, Michael Hainey solves the mystery of his father's death.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 30, 2012
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A short defense of TL;DR, or Desperately seeking e-newsstands
As long as there isn't one newspaper for the Web, we'll be skimming just to find what we want to read. That's where TL;DR helps.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Leopold 'Lee' Froehlich, the editor
'Print isn't going to die; it's going to change. Railroads aren't dead and radio's not dead—they just changed.'
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 24, 2011
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Sex and the city edition
Take our news quiz today and get lucky tonight.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2011
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A new interest in the economy
On Obama's coming jobs speech, another stimulus, and the need to bone up on economics.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Apr 21, 2011
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TimeLine Theatre Company Brings Back the Golden Age of Ink
Chicago’s an eight-newspaper town in Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page.
- News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, Apr 7, 2011
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1984
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2010
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Introducing Chicago's Newest Women's Publication, the Tribune
The Trib discovers its feminine side.
- News & Features, Media, Aug 13, 2009
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The News Wars Are Coming
If it's fight or die on the new media landscape, does anyone think traditional media won't fight?
- News & Features, Media, Jul 30, 2009
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Good Journalism Good for the Journalism Business
University of Missouri researcher Esther Thorson says she's got the numbers to prove what every journalist knows.
- News & Features, Media, Jul 16, 2009
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As the Sun-Times Media Group Prepares to Sell, Employees at Indiana's Post-Tribune Try Once Again to Buy
Who wants to be a newspaper owner? They do.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 16, 2009
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No news would have been better news than this
The annual media survey by the Pew Research Center reports chilling numbers from an industry in crisis.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 1, 2008
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And around we go ...
What a sight -- death spirals as far as the eye can see!
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2007
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The best thing I read all week
'Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors.'
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 28, 2007
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What newspapers don't tell you about the newspaper business
What newspapers don't tell you about the newspaper business.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 8, 2006
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Are you a valued reader, or are you “waste� Just check your pay stub
The print media’s real elitism--not what the talking heads yammer about.
- News & Features, Media, Sep 29, 1972
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"What kind of paper is this, anyway?"
Questions we've heard over and over in the last year.
