CHICAGO CARLESS

(Photo: Beyond advancing age, now I have an official reason to drool.)

This week, I am your official Internet media whore, friends. On the heels of yesterday’s debut of my Huffington Post Chicago byline, beginning today you can also find my words in Drive-Thru, the foodie section of Chicago’s venerable Gapers Block news and features site.

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(Photo: You never know where life will take you. Credit: Devyn Caldwell.)

The new Huffington Post Chicago page debuts today. And guess which Windy City carless blogger has got a byline there?

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(Photo: Why, there was a time, my son, when people read these things called newspapers… Credit: Cushman Collection.)

Last week’s newest bloodletting at Sam Zell’s Chicago Tribune saw bone start to be jettisoned along with flesh. On top of hundreds of job losses since the beginning of the year, early-buyout exits by managing news editor Hanke Gratteau and public editor Timothy McNulty-along with two dozen other core newsroom staff-from one of the most important news outfits in the nation is shocking.

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(Photo: Take me to your leader…and tell him to get this thing off of my head. Credit: Devyn Caldwell.)
This is just a quick weekend shout-out to a few sites that have shown my blog some linking affection in the past few days.  The Chicago Traveler is one the these.  TCT scribe, Matt B, is a Twitter [...]

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(Photo: And that’s second row, second from the right.)

[Update: Ah, the best laid plans. On June 12th, life circumstances intervened and I was unable to appear at this CMW speaking panel. Drat...]

This Thursday, June 12, I will join leading Chicago bloggers (including Andrew Huff from the venerable GapersBlock.com) for a discussion panel at Community Media Workshop’s 2008 Making Media Connections conference.

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(Photo: Back then they managed to build this building and fund a newspaper without the help of massively annoying web ads.)

What on earth is Bill Adee thinking? The Chicago Tribune’s associate managing editor in charge of online operations announced today yet another slew of changes for the paper’s website. If anyone misses 1990s-era websites, have no fear: the Trib has your back with these changes. From a clunky Times font and a space-wasting blocky layout, to big, ugly ads and ad boxes intruding in places they shouldn’t, the new Trib sites has it all…except news, that is.

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(Photo: Controversial Sun-Times opinion page editor Cheryl Reed has left the building. Credit: PostPunkKitchen.)

In December, the former editor of the Sun-Times Opinion page, Cheryl Reed, and I threw down here on the pages of CHICAGO CARLESS. I called Reed out on a series of shallow comments she made at a December 5th forum sponsored by the Publicity Club of Chicago to discuss how the city’s major dailies vet the views to publish on their opinion pages.

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