AltWeeklies Wire
Civic Planning—A Vanishing Beat?new
The American Planning Association's annual journalism awards for "outstanding coverage of city and regional planning issues" haven't been given out since 2009.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
05-30-2012 |
Media
A Smattering of NATO Protest Missed Connectionsnew
"You were the hot cop who put me in flexcuffs.....maybe we can do it privately?"
Chicago Reader |
Sam Worley |
05-21-2012 |
Sex
Scratch and Stitchnew
The well-tailored line between hip-hop artists and the streetwear companies hustling to promote them.
Chicago Reader |
Leor Galil |
05-14-2012 |
Music
Tags: Chicago hates you, ShowYouSuck
Tribune Company Does Deal with Journaticnew
The Tribune Company announced Monday it's turning over TribLocal to Journatic—which the Tribune describes as a "Chicago-based media content provider" that "aggregates data." Not just Chicago-based, it's Tribune Tower-based, and Journatic's approach to journalism is to turn it into piecework done at home.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
04-24-2012 |
Media
Dispatches From a Copy Editors' Conventionnew
The National Conference of the American Copy Editors Society took place over the weekend in New Orleans.
Chicago Reader |
Sam Worley |
04-17-2012 |
Media
Your Hangover Makes You Smarternew
Years of experimenting have yielded facts that strongly support my central hypothesis: namely that the hungover brain is able to make creative leaps that the nonhungover brain is incapable of making.
Chicago Reader |
Mara Shalhoup |
03-23-2012 |
Science
Long-Form Journalism at Short-Form Pricesnew
Once there were lots of places for long-form stories—the prime one being the magazines of Sunday newspapers, fat with advertising. Most of those Sunday mags have long since starved to death.
Chicago Reader |
Steve Bogira |
03-08-2012 |
Media
Tags: Long-Form Journalism, Longreads
The Color of His Skinnew
Joe Henson was killed because he was black. Forty years later, the daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death.
Chicago Reader |
Steve Bogira |
02-29-2012 |
Race & Class
Why the Chicago News Cooperative is Closingnew
James O'Shea, founder and editor of the Chicago News Cooperative, told his staff Friday afternoon that on February 26 the CNC would shut down. Or to be more specific, it would stop publishing in the New York Times and stop maintaining its website, the two forums in which it publicly exists.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
02-21-2012 |
Media
The Politics of Potnew
Are politicians too paranoid to decriminalize marijuana?
Chicago Reader |
Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky |
12-05-2011 |
Drugs
Dragging Drabble Through the Mudnew
Cartoons continue to be casualties of newspaper cost-cutting.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
11-08-2011 |
Media
The $78 Million Bagnew
That's what Cook County spent last year on weed (or to arrest and prosecute those possessing it).
Chicago Reader |
Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky |
10-07-2011 |
Drugs
Wake Up, Chicago Teachers Unionnew
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has changed the rules—and you need to get in the game.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
10-04-2011 |
Business & Labor
Mayor Union-Busternew
Rahm Emanuel fights the Chicago Teachers Union over a longer school day–and it’s not about the kids.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
09-22-2011 |
Politics
The Price of Intolerancenew
Racial tensions on Chicago's south side had been simmering for years when, on September 1, 1971, the animosity boiled over—forever altering the lives of two men.
Chicago Reader |
Steve Bogira |
09-02-2011 |
Race & Class
Tags: Duffie Clark, Sam Navarro
