By Olivia Cohen In an increasingly rare move for a print publication, especially with the abrupt closure of The Riverfront Times, Chicago’s alt-weekly is expanding its print operations. The Reader will print weekly editions of the paper again starting this week after reducing its paper distribution to a biweekly in June 2020 because of the
By Olivia Cohen Allan Lengel, a veteran journalist who co-founded Deadline Detroit, was at the Detroit News in 1995 when six labor unions representing employees of his paper and the Detroit Free Press went on strike for 18 months. The striking workers traveled the country to get the word out about the conflict, sharing updates
By Jackie Spinner The part-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago, where I teach journalism, was on strike for seven weeks, protesting cost-cutting decisions that will result in fewer teaching opportunities for instructors. It was the longest adjunct strike in US history before a tentative deal was reached on Dec. 18. The student newspaper, the Columbia
When Alden Global Capital bought Tribune Publishing in May 2021 and slashed Chicago Tribune newsroom staff to bare bones, few media experts and Chicago journalists were surprised. “Years of poor management” at Tribune Publishing paved the way for Alden, said Brant Houston, professor and Knight chair in investigative and enterprise reporting at the University of
Baffled travelers stepping off buses into an unknown city and life. Families huddled on police stations’ floors. Painful accounts of robberies and rapes, and of deaths in jungles and rivers – the price of escaping grim horrors. These and other stories told by the thousands of immigrants who have surged into Chicago in recent months,
