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My News Diet

November 5, 2018

[caption id="attachment_280" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Fallow newspaper boxes in downtown Chicago, January 2012. Credit: Dan X. O'Neil.[/caption] Because I work in politics, friends often assume I like to talk about the...

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How I Should Have Seen The Fall Of Alternative Newspapers In 2003

September 6, 2018

[caption id="attachment_188" align="aligncenter" width="550"] New York City newspaper boxes, April 5, 2016. Source: Flickr/Dumbo711[/caption] After years of working in the federal government, the annual conference of alternative newspapers seemed downright...

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It’s Time For Illinois To Subsidize Local News Gathering

July 24, 2018

[caption id="attachment_131" align="aligncenter" width="550"] The Danville Commercial-News building in Danville, Illinois. Once a 30,000 circulation daily paper, it now claims about 15,000. Credit: Randy von Liski/Flickr[/caption] The business of reporting...

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Chance Has Just One To Make Chicagoist Work

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018

This morning Chance Bennett, a.k.a., Chance The Rapper, announced his acquisition of Chicagoist from the shambling remains of Joe Ricketts’ DNAInfo-Gothamist company. It’s a great title with a significant audience,...