Journalism
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Unused and Unkempt Newspaper Boxes Are An Urban Blight
There’s no shortage of text lamenting the death of print. But I’ve not come to bury Caesar, but to get him to get rid of his unused metal boxes. This is a typical set of newspaper boxes in downtown Chicago (at the corner of State Street and Wacker Drive), taken last week. 15 newspaper delivery…
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Terrible Example of the Chicago Tribune Placing SEO Above Understanding
In this article, Park advocates want abandoned hospital site, lies this part-hyperlinked sentence: Resident Chris Swan has laid out the case for the park on the Friends of West Edgewater Park Web site. The helpful way to mark up that sentence would be to have the phrase "Friends of West Edgewater Park Web" link to…
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Wrigley Field Work, March 2010
My deep dive of data about Wrigley Field scooped a front-page story in the Chicago Tribune by three days.
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All Hail Ron Koziol
Ron Koziol, 1934-2009: Longtime Tribune reporter fiercely worked police beat — chicagotribune.com. In 1975 he helped found Investigative Reporters and Editors, an international organization devoted to supporting, assisting and training investigative journalists. When another founding member, Don Bolles of the Arizona Republic, was murdered in 1976 while trying to expose fraudulent land deals in Phoenix,…
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Was President Obama in Chicago on Saturday? Dunno, Don’t Think So
There was some fun made by Michael Miner (a complete hero of mine) about a thread of thought that I initiated at the Chicago Future of Media Conference on Saturday. Here's the basics: I noted that two Facebook friends of mine had noted within minutes of each other that there were military helicopters flying over…