Wayne Besen

Famed gay rights activist and author Wayne Besen is joining the weekend lineup of Chicago’s progressive talk radio station.

Starting April 19, Besen’s “I've Got Issues” will air from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturdays on Newsweb Radio’s WCPT AM 820 (simulcast on WCPY FM 92.5, WCPT FM 92.7 and WCPQ FM 99.9). Continue reading →

Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh, the former suburban Chicago congressman who morphed into a radio talk show host, is biting into the Big Apple.

While he continues to hold forth from 5 to 8 p.m. weekdays on news/talk WIND AM 560, parent company Salem Communications has added Walsh to the staff of its New York news/talk outlet, WNYM AM. Continue reading →

A Luddite to the very end, Chicago radio great Larry Lujack never took an interest in e-mail, text messaging or social media. If Ol’ Uncle Lar had something to write, it would come out of his typewriter and find its recipient by snail mail or fax.

Now the typewriter that launched a thousand “Animal Stories” can be yours. Continue reading →

The Chicago Tribune this weekend raised the newsstand price of its Sunday edition by 50 percent — to $2.99 for a single copy. The Sunday Tribune has been $1.99 since 2008. Continue reading →

Michael Miner (Photo: Andrea Bauer)

Michael Miner, the longtime media critic and senior editor of the Chicago Reader, is home recovering after receiving a liver transplant last month.

Miner, 70, disclosed in December that he has had primary sclerosing cholangitis, an inflammation of the bile ducts, since 2001. His condition recently worsened, requiring a new liver. Continue reading →

Hank Sartin

Veteran movie critic Hank Sartin, managing editor of RogerEbert.com and former film editor of Time Out Chicago, is returning to the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate in film studies.

Starting April 14, he’ll join the Department of Cinema and Media Studies as department coordinator. Continue reading →

Steve Cochran

After seven months as morning personality on WGN AM 720, Steve Cochran is ready for his close-up.

Starting Tuesday, the Tribune Broadcasting news/talk station will add a live video stream of Cochran’s show to its website at wgnradio.com. From 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays, multiple cameras in WGN’s showcase studio will allow listeners to see what they’re hearing in real time. Continue reading →

Bill Kurtis

Veteran Chicago journalists Bill Kurtis, Karen Meyer and Tracy Baim will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Chicago Headline Club at its 37th annual Peter Lisagor Awards ceremony May 2. Continue reading →

Terrance Noland

Terrance Noland, a former editor at Men’s Journal, Esquire and SmartMoney, has been named executive editor of Chicago magazine.

His appointment, effective April 14, was announced Thursday by editor in chief Beth Fenner.

As No. 2 editor at the Tribune Co.-owned monthly, Noland succeeds Cassie Walker Burke, a 12-year veteran who resigned last month to join Crain’s Chicago Business as an assistant managing editor. Continue reading →

A recent Sun-Times business blog post acknowledged that bitcoin had been “battered by news of theft and volatility” lately. But that’s not stopping parent company Wrapports LLC from doubling down on the controversial digital currency.

On Thursday, the Sun-Times announced it was becoming “the first major newspaper” to accept bitcoin as payment. Customers in the Chicago area can now use bitcoin to pay for the subscriptions at bitcoin.suntimes.com. Continue reading →