{"id":10789,"date":"2016-03-14T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10789"},"modified":"2016-03-14T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:52:52","slug":"kathy-chaney-leaves-wbez-for-ebony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/03\/14\/kathy-chaney-leaves-wbez-for-ebony\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Chaney leaves WBEZ to join Ebony as managing editor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Kathy Chaney<\/p><\/div>\n

Multimedia Chicago journalist Kathy Chaney, most recently a producer\/reporter at Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5, <\/a>has been named managing editor of Ebony magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday marked her first day on the job with the monthly African-American lifestyle magazine and website published by Chicago-based Johnson Publishing. \u201cI\u2019m very excited to part of the legendary JPC family,\u201d Chaney said.<\/p>\n

As managing editor she fills the vacancy left by Wendy Wilson, who exited last April. Chaney reports to Ebony editor-in-chief Kierna Mayo.<\/p>\n

Chaney\u2019s departure from WBEZ leaves the public radio station with only four African-American employees among its full-time newsroom staff.<\/p>\n

Chaney, who attended Loyola University Chicago and Western Illinois University, joined WBEZ in 2014 after working as senior executive producer at Midway Broadcasting urban news\/talk WVON AM 1690 <\/a>and managing editor of the Chicago Defender.<\/a><\/p>\n

She previously wrote for the Chicago Tribune, Thomson Reuters, Associated Press and Crain\u2019s Chicago Business, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multimedia Chicago journalist Kathy Chaney, most recently a producer\/reporter at Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5, has been named managing editor of Ebony magazine. Monday marked her first day on the job with the monthly African-American lifestyle magazine and website published by Chicago-based Johnson Publishing. \u201cI\u2019m very excited to part of the legendary JPC family,\u201d... 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\/10789"}],"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=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10797,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions\/10797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}