WGN Radio
WGN 720-AM, the Nexstar Media Group news/talk station, chose the Friday night of a three-day holiday weekend to drop the bombshell that it's overhauling its weekday afternoon and evening lineup.
Out — effective immediately — is afternoon personality Roe Conn, whose contract runs through the end of the year. He was notified after he got off the air Friday that it was his last show.
Also out is overnight personality Nick Digilio, who also was notified Friday. Continue reading
Lisa Dent
Lisa Dent, who's been synonymous with country music radio in Chicago for nearly two decades, never got to say goodbye to her fans.
As midday personality at WEBG 95.5-FM, Dent was among the casualties when iHeartMedia pulled the plug on the station's country format Thursday and switched to rock. It's now branded as "Rock 95 Five." Continue reading
Loyola University (Photo: Zack Miller/The Phoenix)
Robservations on the media beat:
Mary Chappell
The world needs more journalists like Mary Chappell. The Loyola University senior and editor-in-chief of the Loyola Phoenix student newspaper wrote a column this week that made many in the business want to stand up and cheer. (Here is the link.) In the piece headlined "As Reporters, It’s Our Duty to Document the Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Chappell explained why her paper needs to cover campus protests without fear or favor. "Our sole job is to side with complete and full accuracy," she wrote. "Our job isn’t to be a promoter, it’s to cover things as they are." Her full-throated defense stood in contrast to an ill-conceived editorial last fall in Northwestern University's Daily Northwestern, which capitulated to the mob. Chappell, who grew up in Denver, has worked for the Daily Herald, Sun-Times and CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2. Continue reading