Author: Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin

The elephant in the room: Chicago journalists grapple with future of news

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NEWS ANALYSIS The Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020 was, in some ways, a tale of 300 journalists enacting the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Held late last month in the Walnut Room of the Kimpton Allegro Hotel–famously the first place to serve alcohol in the minutes after Prohibition was repealed–the event was…

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Growing community media: After four decades, a local newspaper company turns the page

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For the past 39 years, Wednesday Journal, Inc. has served up weekly community newspapers, starting with its home base in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, and expanding to cover neighboring River Forest, Forest Park, Riverside, Brookfield and the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s west side. But for the past 10 of those years, advertising…

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