{"id":15981,"date":"2017-11-14T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15981"},"modified":"2017-11-14T06:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:02:06","slug":"robservations-kerry-lester-leaving-daily-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/11\/14\/robservations-kerry-lester-leaving-daily-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Kerry Lester leaving Daily Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Kerry Lester<\/p><\/div>\n

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

The Daily Herald <\/a>is losing one of its brightest stars. Columnist and senior writer Kerry Lester<\/strong> has applied for a buyout and is stepping down to pursue \u201cother opportunities in and outside the news business.\u201d Among them will be a Ph.D. in politics and media. Except for a two-year run as Springfield bureau chief of the Associated Press, Lester has been with the Daily Herald since she started as an editorial assistant in 2006. She also served as political editor and education reporter. \u201cThe paper's a place where I cut my teeth, and as a suburban native, something that will always have a piece of my heart,\u201d Lester told Facebook<\/a> friends Monday. \u201cThanks so much for reading, and for all of your tips and insights.\u201d Earlier this year she was cited here as one of the most powerful women<\/a> in Chicago journalism.<\/p>\n

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Richard Roeper<\/p><\/div>\n

Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper<\/strong> has returned to \u201cWindy City Live,\u201d <\/a>the weekday afternoon talk and entertainment show on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/a> He previously contributed movie reviews to the show before his recently-ended<\/a> two-year stint as co-host of \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d on Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. \"I'm so excited to be back home with my 'Windy City Live' family,\u201d Roeper said. \u201cWhen I arrived on Friday, it was so great to see so many old friends, in front of the camera and behind the scenes. And we hit the ground running with my first batch of movie reviews.\u201d Noting this marks his sixth time working at 190 North State Street, he recalled: \u201cI had three different radio gigs on WLS, my prior stint with 'WCL,' and of course it was for many years the home of 'Ebert & Roeper.'\"<\/p>\n

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Hilda Guti\u00e9rrez<\/p><\/div>\n

Reporter Hilda Guti\u00e9rrez<\/strong> has been hired to lead a second investigative unit at Telemundo Chicago WSNS-Channel 44.<\/a> She joins the Spanish-language station from Estrella TV's KRCA in Los Angeles, where she was weekend news anchor and special assignments reporter for seven years. In her new role, Guti\u00e9rrez also will work with NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 on joint investigative projects. Diana Maldonado,<\/strong> vice president of news operations for Telemundo Chicago, said in a statement: \u201cWith an already successful [consumer] investigative unit, Telemundo Chicago Responde,<\/em> we believe Telemundo Chicago Investiga<\/em> will enable us to further serve issues throughout the Chicago area\u2019s Spanish-speaking communities that have often gone overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bob Oswald<\/p><\/div>\n

Colleagues are saluting Bob Oswald,<\/strong> former news editor of the Elgin Courier-News, <\/a>whose position was among those eliminated last week when the newspaper cut its frequency<\/a> from daily to three days a week. Oswald finished out the week even after he learned he\u2019d been laid off. Phil Jurik,<\/strong> Chicago Tribune suburban news group editor, wrote in an email to staff: \u201cLike the other dedicated folks we lost recently, Bob stayed at this work, not for the lavish financial rewards, but because he loved it and believed in making his time here count. Right up until the last hours, he understood how special that commitment was. We will miss all these folks, their contributions and their personalities. But their deeply held passion for the work \u2014 embodied in Bob's example and others \u2014 I hope to carry with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Peter Sagal<\/p><\/div>\n

Peter Sagal,<\/strong> host of NPR\u2019s \u201cWait Wait . . . Don\u2019t Tell Me!\u201d will headline the next installment of the Wednesday Journal Conversations<\/a> series at 7 p.m. Monday. Veteran journalist and fellow Oak Parker Charlie Meyerson,<\/strong> founder of the daily email news update Chicago Public Square,<\/a> will moderate the event at the Performing Arts Center of Dominican University, 7900 Division Street, River Forest. Tickets are $25 and available at OakPark.com\/sagal.<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s best comment: <\/a>John McHugh:<\/strong> This is probably the most poorly written opening of a staff reduction release I've ever read: \u201cWe are resetting our business goals in order to best serve our fans.\u201d Are they lowering their goals? Certainly, they're not raising them. Those laid off will have the satisfaction of knowing that I'm better served. Huh?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: The Daily Herald is losing one of its brightest stars. Columnist and senior writer Kerry Lester has applied for a buyout and is stepping down to pursue \u201cother opportunities in and outside the news business.\u201d Among them will be a Ph.D. in politics and media. Except for a two-year run... 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\/15981"}],"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=15981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15989,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions\/15989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}