{"id":11550,"date":"2016-06-07T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11550"},"modified":"2016-06-07T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:00:11","slug":"robservations-shia-kapos-taking-names-for-sun-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/06\/07\/robservations-shia-kapos-taking-names-for-sun-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Columnist Shia Kapos \u2018Taking Names\u2019 for Sun-Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Shia<\/a>

<\/a> Shia Kapos<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

\"Taking<\/a>

Taking Names<\/p><\/div>\n

Good news: Shia Kapos,<\/strong> one of Chicago\u2019s premier journalists on the celebrity beat,\u00a0is bringing her newsy \u201cTaking Names\u201d column to the Sun-Times, <\/a>where it will run twice a week, starting June 20. The move will coincide with the launch of her independent blog, also called \u201cTaking Names.\u201d Content for Kapos\u2019s print column will be aggregated from her blog posts, according to Jim Kirk,<\/strong> publisher and editor of the Sun-Times. \u201cIt will be personality-driven,\u201d Kapos said of her new blog and column. \u201cI\u2019ll be looking at what people do away from the office. You\u2019re going to see more stories about the intersection of business and politics . . . and more scoops.\u201d Until last March, Kapos was a fixture at Crain\u2019s Chicago Business, <\/a>where she spent 10 years as senior reporter and columnist. Before that she was Midwest correspondent for People magazine, staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to the New York Times.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/a>

Michael Ferro<\/p><\/div>\n

All journalists working for the company soon to be known as tronc<\/a> will be getting raises. That was one of the messages from Tribune Publishing<\/a> chairman Michael Ferro<\/strong> in a head-scratching interview<\/a> Monday on CNBC. \u201cWhen we came in, the first thing we did as a team is we\u2019ve taken out 20 million of costs,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to take out almost 50 million this year of costs while raising journalists\u2019 salaries. That\u2019s been announced across the board.\u201d What Ferro didn\u2019t say was how many journalists would be laid off to achieve those projected savings before<\/em> the raises kick in. Ferro also defended changing the corporate name to tronc, saying: \u201cIn fact, we don\u2019t even own the Tribune Publishing name. We have a license to it [from Tribune Media], but we can\u2019t use the name Tribune. I\u2019ve been reading [about it] a lot. It\u2019s been fun to read the Twitter feeds. . . . Most people don\u2019t know this, but we can\u2019t use the name [Tribune].\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/a>

Chris Corley<\/p><\/div>\n

Two new signature voices have been added to CBS Radio stations in Chicago. Chris Corley,<\/strong> known for countless movie trailers and commercials, has been hired as the promotion and imaging voice of Top 40 WBBM FM 96.3.<\/a> Based in Fort Myers, Florida, he replaces Dave Kampel,<\/strong> who joined B96 from competitor Clear Channel Radio (now iHeartMedia) in 2009. Also adding its first outside promotion and imaging voice is adult album alternative WXRT FM 93.1.<\/a>\u00a0He\u2019s Steve Stone<\/strong> (no, not the baseball broadcaster), a busy voiceover specialist from Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\"Jerry<\/a>

Jerry Rose<\/p><\/div>\n

Jerry Rose,<\/strong> a Christian broadcasting pioneer who put Chicago\u2019s WCFC-Channel 38 (now WCPX) on the air in 1976 and ran the Total Living Network<\/a> here, has stepped down as president and CEO of Total Living International after four decades of television ministry. Rose, 74, will continue as the company\u2019s board chairman and as host of his weekly interview show \u201cSignificant Insights.\u201d <\/a>In 1999 Rose was inducted in the Silver Circle of the Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

\"Bryan<\/a>

Bryan Biggs<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s a reunion for Big John Howell,<\/strong> morning host at Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS AM 890, <\/a>and his former technical producer at WIND AM 560. <\/a>Bryan Biggs,<\/strong> who last worked with Howell at the Salem Media news\/talk station, has been hired as executive producer of Howell\u2019s morning show at WLS, starting June 13. Biggs, who also worked as executive producer for Steve Cochran<\/strong> and Joe Walsh<\/strong> at WIND, exited the station last October. Since then he has been working weekends as a part-time assistant producer for CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Good news: Shia Kapos, one of Chicago\u2019s premier journalists on the celebrity beat,\u00a0is bringing her newsy \u201cTaking Names\u201d column to the Sun-Times, where it will run twice a week, starting June 20. The move will coincide with the launch of her independent blog, also called \u201cTaking Names.\u201d Content for Kapos\u2019s... 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\/11550"}],"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=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11566,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions\/11566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}