Robservations on the media beat:
It’s over and out for the Chicago Jewish Star after 27 years of publication. Billed as Chicago’s oldest independent Jewish newspaper, the Skokie-based biweekly cited “an industry-wide decline in advertising revenues” for shutting down the family-run operation Friday. Winner of six Peter Lisagor Awards for excellence in journalism, the paper is a finalist for two more in this year’s competition. “We wanted to make what we did matter,” founding editor Douglas Wertheimer wrote in a farewell editorial. “We never ceased trying to do our best.” Continue reading