Author: Marin Scott

Local Chicago news startup turns 3, with a growing list of newsletter readers and paid subscribers

When their billionaire owner abruptly closed Chicago’s DNAInfo in 2017, three former editors decided to build a different kind of news source out of the remnants. Block Club Chicago launched seven months later, with a mission to combine neighborhood reporting with public service journalism and to do it under a nonprofit business model. It was…

Neighborhood in all of us: Author Carlo Rotella on writing a journalistic memoir from the south side of Chicago

Carlo Rotella knew when he set out to write a journalistic memoir that he’d have to be conscious of the different roles he’d play as investigative reporter, writer and storyteller. Not only does his book, The World is Coming to an End, focus on the greater divide between economic and social classes all from the…