{"id":17377,"date":"2018-03-22T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=17377"},"modified":"2018-03-22T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:00:01","slug":"robservations-tribune-layoffs-cost-white-sox-blackhawks-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/03\/22\/robservations-tribune-layoffs-cost-white-sox-blackhawks-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Tribune layoffs cost White Sox, Blackhawks coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Chicago Tribune (Photo: Stephen Battaglio)<\/p><\/div>\n

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

If you\u2019re wondering how the Chicago Tribune <\/a>will continue to cover the White Sox and the Blackhawks without dedicated beat writers, you\u2019re not alone. As part of the latest wave of editorial job cuts<\/a> at the newspaper, the layoffs of sportswriters Chris Kuc<\/strong> and Paul Skrbina<\/strong> leave the two teams without a full-time Tribune reporter assigned to travel with them. So what\u2019s the plan? I tried to ask Tribune managing editor Peter Kendall,<\/strong> associate managing editor for sports Joe Knowles,<\/strong> and sports editor Tim Bannon,<\/strong> but couldn\u2019t get an answer. I did receive this statement from a tronc spokesperson: \u201cThe Chicago Tribune is fully committed to covering the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Blackhawks. We value and understand the importance of covering sports both for fans and our readers.\u201d Hope that clears everything up.<\/p>\n

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Steve Stone<\/p><\/div>\n

White Sox broadcaster Steve Stone<\/strong> has been signed as baseball analyst at Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk WGN AM 720,<\/a> starting this week. Through the World Series, Stone will appear every Friday on Steve Cochran\u2019s<\/strong> morning show and every Monday on Roe Conn\u2019s<\/strong> afternoon show, according to Todd Manley,<\/strong> station manager and vice president of content at WGN. In February WGN announced<\/a> a three-year deal to broadcast all 162 White Sox regular season and postseason games as well as select spring training games.<\/p>\n

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Cassie Walker Burke<\/p><\/div>\n

Cassie Walker Burke,<\/strong> assistant managing editor of Crain\u2019s Chicago Business,<\/a> has been named Chicago bureau chief for the New York-based education news outlet Chalkbeat.<\/a> The nonprofit news organization will be hiring two reporters<\/a> to work under Burke in Chicago. Before joining Crain\u2019s in 2014, Burke was executive editor of Chicago magazine. The Alabama native and former reporter for the LaGrange Daily News in LaGrange, Georgia, graduated from Auburn University and received a master\u2019s degree from Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism.<\/p>\n

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Ben Bradley<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago TV\u2019s big winner on primary election night Tuesday was WGN-Channel 9.<\/a> The Tribune Broadcasting station swept the ratings from 6 to 11 p.m. for its marathon coverage. Especially noteworthy was WGN\u2019s victory at 10 p.m. when \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d beat all four of its rivals straight up. It was WGN\u2019s first election night since Mark Suppelsa<\/strong> retired as main news anchor in December. Ben Bradley<\/strong> smoothly filled in alongside Micah Matere.<\/strong> WGN awaits the arrival next month of Suppelsa\u2019s replacement, <\/a>Joe Donlon,<\/strong> who moves up from Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Mueller<\/p><\/div>\n

Four Chicago museums will be spotlighted in \u201cMuseum Access,\u201d<\/a> a 10-part public television series to premiere next month on Window to the World Communications WTTW-Channel 11.<\/a> With Chicagoan Leslie Mueller<\/strong> as host and executive producer, the series will feature stories about the Museum of Science and Industry, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and Museum of Broadcast Communications, among others. \u201cHearing from museum experts at the top of their game and getting behind-the-scenes peeks just adds to the adventure,\u201d Mueller said in a statement. \u201cWith over 35,000 museums in the United States, there\u2019s a treasure trove of new places to explore.\u201d WTTW will air \u201cMuseum Access\u201d at 11 a.m. Sundays, starting April 1.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Harris<\/p><\/div>\n

Matthew Harris<\/strong> has moved up to promotion director of iHeartMedia urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5.<\/a> Before joining the station\u2019s programming team late last year, the Bradley University graduate worked as promotions director and on-air personality for Cumulus Media stations in Peoria. At WGCI he reports to Echo Robinson,<\/strong>\u00a0newly named director of marketing and promotions for iHeartMedia Chicago.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s comment of the day: <\/a>Vicki Smilkowski:<\/strong> Mary Schmich won a Pulitzer Prize; and unlike you [Bill K Walsh], she can spell.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: If you\u2019re wondering how the Chicago Tribune will continue to cover the White Sox and the Blackhawks without dedicated beat writers, you\u2019re not alone. As part of the latest wave of editorial job cuts at the newspaper, the layoffs of sportswriters Chris Kuc and Paul Skrbina leave the two teams... 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\/17377"}],"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=17377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17389,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions\/17389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}