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Promising Developments in the Future of Chicago News

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After several months of relative calm in the Chicago media landscape (with thankfully few layoffs), activity has picked up significantly in the last few weeks, with lots of announcements, many of which strike us as very promising developments for the future of news coverage in Chicago.  Several of the announcements involve the creation of actual new outlets altogether, staffed at least in part with former daily newspaper folk.  Below we will try to cover all the changes that have occurred:

First off, the Sun-Times has gotten a new owner/savior in Mesirow Financial’s Jim Tyree.  He and his investor group seem willing to pour resources into the long-starved daily.  Here’s hoping that they succeed. Read the rest of this entry »

Media Guide Updates since we’ve went to print

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  • Nonprofit blogs to watch: breathe. push. grow. May 15, 2012
    HealthConnect One, a nonprofit focused on community-based support for pregnancy and parenting, launched their brand new blog this week “breathe. push. grow.” The goal of the blog is to start a dialogue around the growing model of peer-to-peer support for new families during pregnancy, birth and early parenting. Led by the organization’s Communications Manage […]

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  • What about the neighborhoods? May 16, 2012
    The Grassroots Collaborative is offering visiting journalists bus tours of working-class neighborhoods struggling with violence, foreclosures, and clinic closings. […]

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  • El dia de nuestras madres في اليوم من أمهاتنا The Day of Our Mothers May 13, 2012
    Sun’s up, blue skies. Running out to pick up flowers on Mother’s Day and what else? But then I’m snagged by Frances’ essay that I start and can’t s stop (read the prior post from her here) http://chicagoistheworld.org/2012/05/when-mother%E2%80%99s-day-goes-awry/ It’s about being a mother on mother’s day and the day’s meaning for a mother. And that […]

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