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May, 2013
The Chicago Reporter’s search for its next editor and publisher is in full swing. A nine-member search committee is interviewing candidates and aims to make a selection by late spring.Reporter María Inés Zamudio is one of 18 journalists nationwide to receive a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. The grant subsidized Zamudio’s reporting trip to Mexico, where she interviewed migrants...
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March, 2013
With this issue, The Chicago Reporter kicks off two new features, “#Muckrakers” and “In Focus.” They will showcase investigations, enterprise reporting and photojournalism previously published at www.chicagoreporter.com and on our Chicago Muckrakers blog.Blogger/reporter Megan Cottrell has been named the recipient of a Studs Terkel Community Media Award. The honor, which goes to “...
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January, 2013
Kimbriell Kelly, publisher of The Chicago Reporter, has left the publication after eight years to join the investigative team at The Washington Post.“I’’m very sad to leave the Reporter, where I started at the ground floor as a [McCormick Tribune] fellow and worked my way all the way up to the top. So it’s a little bittersweet,” she said. Kelly began her new job at the Post’s D.C. office in mid-...
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November, 2012
The Chicago Reporter’s website will receive a much-needed facelift this year with a generous grant from the Open Society Foundations.Staff has begun testing the site, and the public launch could happen late fall or early winter as we continue to celebrate our 40th anniversary year of investigating race and poverty.The goal of the project is to improve the look and feel of the website but, more...
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September, 2012
In the spring, The Chicago Reporter created a part-time position for Web editor. It had been more than two years since we started a blog with our first blogger, and we’ve since grown to include four bloggers. Having an editor to manage all those people was a must. We brought on Mike McHugh to serve in that capacity. But he has now taken a job in the communications department at the University of...
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July, 2012
Chicago, Ill.—One of the nation's most successful investigative publications, The Chicago Reporter, made two announcements today: the launch of its year-long 40th anniversary celebration and the naming of its newest publisher, Kimbriell Kelly.In the issue published today, The Chicago Reporter continued its mission of documenting the city's struggles with race and poverty with an investigation of...
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July, 2012
Happy anniversary. It was in July 1972 that The Chicago Reporter debuted its first issue. Since then, the magazine has continued to grow and impact policy issues both on a local and national level.More than 700 staff and interns have walked through our doors during that time. And during the next year, we’ll look back at where we’ve been, celebrate our impact and look forward to the years ahead....
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December, 2011
Can’t get enough of The Chicago Reporter? Do you hate waiting to read the latest investigative stories?A new partnership will provide more investigative stories, with the Reporter’s signature data analysis, for a bigger audience.The Reporter will join forces with NBC to create hard-hitting investigative stories on social and economic issues.“The Chicago Reporter is looking forward to...
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December, 2011
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