Former Chicago Reader Editor Reflects on Sale to Ben Eason
By AAN Staff
august 28, 2009 09:49 am
"Maybe we should have been smarter, or less starry-eyed about it, but we thought and hoped Eason would succeed," says Mike Lenehan, who owned a small part of the
Reader before it was sold to Eason. "I don't think there would have been much sentiment to do [the deal] if we thought he'd turn out to be Ben Eason. Maybe we should have known better -- but that's what we thought."
MORE: Reader media columnist Michael Miner
discusses the paper's future with Chicago Public Radio, and
Creative Loafing (Tampa) publisher Sharry Smith
has sent out a memo calling Atalaya's acquisition of the company "a very positive development." (AAN News has been told the memo was drafted by all of the CL publishers together.)