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Longtime Chicago Journalist Named Publisher of the Chicago Reader

By AAN Staff

october 27, 2009 05:33 pm

Longtime Chicago Journalist Named Publisher of the Chicago Reader

James C. Warren, who was previously co-managing editor of the Chicago Tribune and before that the Tribune's Washington bureau chief, was named the Reader's new president and publisher today. He will start on Nov. 2. "If I bought into much conventional wisdom concerning high-quality print journalism, I'd be entering the fields of clean energy solar panels or medical robots. But I don't," Warren said in a statement. "Rather, I believe The Reader can be an even greater success if it is provocative, makes those in power squirm and yet is willing to entertain and have fun."

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