{"id":10174,"date":"2016-01-19T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2016-01-19T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T23:04:40","slug":"lori-rackl-named-tribune-travel-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/01\/19\/lori-rackl-named-tribune-travel-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Rackl named Tribune travel editor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Lori Rackl<\/p><\/div>\n

Eleven months after she accepted a voluntary buyout from the Sun-Times <\/a>and stepped down<\/a> as TV critic, Lori Rackl is back in the daily newspaper business.<\/p>\n

Rackl starts Wednesday as editor of the Chicago Tribune\u2019s<\/a> travel section, a position she previously held at the Sun-Times. She succeeds Ross Werland, who accepted a buyout at the end of last year. Rackl also will serve as editor of the Tribune\u2019s health and family section.<\/p>\n

\u201cI'm thrilled to be on board at the Trib,\u201d Rackl said Tuesday. \u201cWhen I left the Sun-Times last year, I never imagined having the opportunity to be back at work at a daily newspaper. Truth is, I missed it. I missed being part of a newsroom, part of a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI'm also really excited about the beats. Travel has always been a passion of mine. The health beat is near and dear to me, too. It's a topic I covered at both the Daily Herald<\/a> and the Sun-Times. I can't wait to get started,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A graduate of Addison Trail High School and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rackl spent 11 years as a reporter for the Daily Herald before joining the Sun-Times in 2004. She was named travel editor in 2007 and TV critic in 2011.<\/p>\n

In addition to freelance work for various publications, Rackl spent the last year writing for her own blog, TVtrippin.com,<\/a> which combined her interests in television and travel.<\/p>\n

Rackl is married to Chris Fusco, an investigative reporter at the Sun-Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eleven months after she accepted a voluntary buyout from the Sun-Times and stepped down as TV critic, Lori Rackl is back in the daily newspaper business. Rackl starts Wednesday as editor of the Chicago Tribune\u2019s travel section, a position she previously held at the Sun-Times. She succeeds Ross Werland, who accepted a buyout at the... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}