{"id":12358,"date":"2016-09-19T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=12358"},"modified":"2016-09-19T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:16:44","slug":"robservations-daily-herald-closing-bureaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/09\/19\/robservations-daily-herald-closing-bureaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Daily Herald closing more bureaus"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> Daily Herald<\/p><\/div>\n
Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n
With the closing of its two remaining bureaus in Lisle and Elgin, the Daily Herald<\/a> continues consolidation of staff at its Arlington Heights headquarters and Paddock Printing Center in Schaumburg. Both moves, to be completed by year\u2019s end, follow the closing last December of the Daily Herald\u2019s Lake County bureau in Libertyville. In addition to saving money, Doug Ray,<\/strong> publisher and CEO of Daily Herald Media Group, cited the ability of mobile journalists to report from where news happens. \u201cThis move reinforces our strategy to put more emphasis on \u2018being there\u2019 rather than \u2018in-the-office newsgathering,\u2019 \u201d he said.<\/p>\n Michael Madigan<\/p><\/div>\n Chicago Tribune<\/a> columnist John Kass<\/strong> and political cartoonist Scott Stantis<\/strong> take on Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan<\/strong> in a new documentary funded by Illinois Policy Action. Capitol Fax <\/a>political blogger Rich Miller<\/strong> also appears in \u201cMadigan: Power, Privilege, Politics,\u201d <\/a>a one-hour documentary set for release October 10. A trailer <\/a>for the film suggests it\u2019s a one-sided attack on the state\u2019s most powerful Democrat. Illinois Policy Action is an arm of the Illinois Policy Institute, funded for years <\/a>by Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.<\/strong> Madigan\u2019s office claims the documentary is being used to detract attention from Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> Republican presidential candidacy.<\/p>\n Robert Jordan<\/p><\/div>\n Colleagues, friends and family toasted Robert Jordan<\/strong> Friday on his retirement <\/a>after 43 years as news anchor and reporter at Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9. <\/a>Except for a two-year stint as Midwest bureau correspondent for CBS News,<\/a> Jordan, 73, has been a mainstay of \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d since 1973. \u201cWhen I came here, it was an independent station,\u201d he told the gathering at Harry Caray\u2019s Restaurant. \u201cAnd as I leave, once again it is an independent station. But this time it\u2019s No. 1. Then it was No. 5. So things have really changed over the years \u2014 for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n Mark Zonca<\/p><\/div>\n Mark Zonca,<\/strong> former managing editor of Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 and CLTV,<\/a> has been hired as executive producer of \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d the weekday morning news program on Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.<\/a> He succeeds Dan Salamone,<\/strong> who exited <\/a>in July after one year. Zonca, who most recently was senior director of communications at Illinois Institute of Technology, previously was a supervising producer at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2.<\/a> He is married to Mary Kay Kleist,<\/strong> the CBS 2 meteorologist.<\/p>\n Chris Hush<\/p><\/div>\n Chris Hush,<\/strong> a reporter at NBC affiliate WESH in Orlando, Florida, will join the reporting team at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5,<\/a> starting October 10. Hush, a graduate of Penn State University, previously worked for stations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Elmira, New York. He served as an intern for NBC\u2019s \u201cToday.\u201d Also at NBC 5, per-diem reporter Regina Waldroup<\/strong> has been promoted to full-time general assignment reporter, and reporter Katie Kim<\/strong> moves up to investigative reporter.<\/p>\n Terry Boers<\/p><\/div>\n Sounding hoarse and frail, Terry Boers<\/strong> called in to his afternoon show Thursday on CBS Radio sports\/talk WSCR AM 670<\/a> to reassure fans he\u2019ll return to The Score in October. But he acknowledged that his summer has been \u201cawful\u201d and last week was especially \u201cmiserable\u201d as he undergoes treatment for an undisclosed ailment following surgery in June. \u201cI told my doctor, I said: \u2018Just leave me alone. Just get me to a screen where I can watch baseball. I don\u2019t need any advice, I don\u2019t need any counseling, I\u2019m OK. My mind is alright. Just get me to a Cub game,\u2019 \u201d Boers told Matt Abbatacola,<\/strong> who\u2019s been filling in for him alongside co-host Dan Bernstein.<\/strong> \u201cSo that\u2019s basically what I\u2019ve been doing. . . . In a month from now I will sound a lot different than I do today. I will be fine. It\u2019s just this reaction, this pain stuff last week, was not good. I\u2019m not a big pain medication guy anyway, so I thought I\u2019d try and I failed miserably. It was a miserable week, and it set me back a little bit. But I\u2019m OK. I\u2019m OK. So I\u2019ll be fine, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robservations on the media beat: With the closing of its two remaining bureaus in Lisle and Elgin, the Daily Herald continues consolidation of staff at its Arlington Heights headquarters and Paddock Printing Center in Schaumburg. Both moves, to be completed by year\u2019s end, follow the closing last December of the Daily Herald\u2019s Lake County bureau... Continue reading <\/a>
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