Whitaker Disappointed in RedEye, Red Streak
By AAN Staff
december 4, 2002 10:29 am
Charles Whitaker, director of the Academy
for Alternative Journalism at Northwestern
University's Medill School of Journalism,
says the Chicago dailies' two new
youth-oriented weekday tabs "are
neither hip, nor
smart, nor in any way sophisticated."
Whitaker, a former editor of Ebony, says
he'd hoped the Tribune and the Sun
Times would have used their
considerable resources to achieve "a
radical rethinking of what newspapers
are and what they can be. ... Boy, was I
wrong."