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How Print News Will Survive on the Internet
If news is inherently a shared effort on the Internet, why are traditional news outlets trying to monopolize it with ham-fisted behaviors that violate the accepted norms of online community?
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Print Media's Five Suicidal Assumptions
Too often these days, in an effort to cling to anything familiar, some journalists believe beyond reason that by hiding atop an appropriately lofty tower or inside an appropriately narrow niche, they can still manage to monetize the old, ink-and-paper industry. And that's how they're killing their o
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Big Gay Guest Shot: My Interview on "Feast of Fools"
Today, I'm the featured guest on Chicago's homegrown Feast of Fools podcast, the most popular LGBT-themed daily talk show on the planet. Wonder twin powers, activate! Form of: a giddy gay blogger!
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My New Chicago Journal Byline
Earlier this year, the longtime local weekly, asked if I'd be interested in contributing to the paper. Beginning this week, I'm doing just that.
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A Miniature Chicago for a Tabloid Tribune
I find the Chicago Tribune's new, smaller size inspiring. I can think of any number of things that would benefit from a likewise miniaturization...
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A Kathy Griffin New Year's Eve
An hour after Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin rang in New Year's Eve 2009 in New York City last night, Kathy got heckled from an unseen spectator while still live on CNN. Moments before the network cut to commercial, Kathy heckled the heckler right back. While live. On CNN. It went something like
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Mike Doyle on Outside the Loop Radio
Today, interested readers can listen to my interview about the Chicago Transit Authority's ill-considered holiday crackdown on homeless 'L' riders on WLUW 88.7-FM's independent weekly news and features show, Outside the Loop RADIO.
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RIP Studs Terkel
Rest in peace, acclaimed Windy City author-activist-broadcast personality and media luminary Studs Terkel, who died today in his North Side home at the age of 96. A fellow former New Yorker, like me Studs never drove a car and once he got to Chicago never left, by dint of simple, deep love of this p
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Guidebook for a Media Meltdown
This month, Community Media Workshop releases the 18th edition of its annual media guide, 'Getting On the Air, Online & into Print'. Long the undisputed bible of Chicagoland news media contacts, if you're a nonprofit communications manager or public-relations specialist working anywhere near the sou
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Chicago Traveler Vs. Hurricane Gustav
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Just ask Matt B. (aka 'Polomex'), scribe of the Chicago Traveler blog and current refugee from the onslaught of the Gulf Coast's pesky new resident, Hurricane Gustav.
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My New Huffington Post Chicago Byline
Last month, Huffington Post's Chicago editor asked me to be a part of the widely read political news and blogging site's local debut by joining their invitation-only stable of bloggers. Instead of yes, I believe my answer was, 'How high?'
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The Newspaper Is Dead, Long Live the Newspaper
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 cor