{"id":16651,"date":"2018-01-26T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=16651"},"modified":"2018-01-26T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:50:49","slug":"sun-times-brings-back-richard-roepers-column-new-role-mark-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/01\/26\/sun-times-brings-back-richard-roepers-column-new-role-mark-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun-Times brings back Richard Roeper\u2019s column; new role for Mark Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Richard Roeper (Photo: Windy City Live\/ABC 7)<\/p><\/div>\n

Richard Roeper is returning to the pages of the Sun-Times <\/a>as a news columnist while continuing to serve as the newspaper\u2019s film critic.\u00a0His general-interest column will appear Tuesdays and Thursdays in addition to his weekly output of movie reviews.<\/p>\n

Roeper\u2019s expanded role was part of a realignment of columnists announced to the staff Thursday by Chris Fusco, editor in chief of the Sun-Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cRich is a great face of the brand,\u201d Fusco said in an interview. \u201cHe\u2019s got a national reputation as a great movie critic, but his career began as a news columnist. Having him back in that mix is great news for our readers and great news for Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roeper, who began as a freelance writer for the Sun-Times in 1982 and was named a full-time columnist in 1987, shifted<\/a> to film critic following the death of Roger Ebert in 2013. The two hosted the nationally syndicated movie-review show \u201cEbert & Roeper\u201d from 2000 to 2008.<\/p>\n

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Mark Brown<\/p><\/div>\n

Fusco also announced a new role for columnist Mark Brown, who has been writing four days a week. Now he\u2019ll focus exclusively on news and analysis about politics. When it does appear, Brown\u2019s column will be branded \u201cPolitical Matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a natural fit, given the nature of Mark\u2019s column to begin with,\u201d Fusco said. \u201cWe\u2019re unshackling him when he has a bigger story that he wants to do and freeing him to work with other reporters. He\u2019ll be doing different kinds of things, but you\u2019ll still see his face in the paper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown joined the Sun-Times as a reporter in 1982 and has been writing a column since 2000.<\/p>\n

In other moves, Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet\u2019s column will be branded \u201cD.C. Decoder,\u201d and investigative reporter Dan Mihalopoulos\u2019s column will be branded \u201cInside Chicagoland,\u201d according to Fusco.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re shifting things up here in the interest of trying to bolster our political coverage in a very important election year at all levels of government,\u201d Fusco said.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s best comment:<\/a> Thomas M. Shea:<\/strong> I wish I could convey in writing just how poor, disrespectful, and inaccurately bad Willl Ferrell's impression of Harrry Caray is\/was. Didn't look, sound, or act like him. Harry never wore his hair like a fright wig and didn't do non-sequiturs.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Roeper is returning to the pages of the Sun-Times as a news columnist while continuing to serve as the newspaper\u2019s film critic.\u00a0His general-interest column will appear Tuesdays and Thursdays in addition to his weekly output of movie reviews. Roeper\u2019s expanded role was part of a realignment of columnists announced to the staff Thursday by... 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\/16651"}],"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=16651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16659,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions\/16659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}