<\/a>Dorothy Leavell<\/p><\/div>\n
Leavell, who will continue as publisher of the Chicago Crusader and the Gary Crusader, two African-American publications, will oversee the Reader's new parent company along with treasurer Eileen Rhodes, president of East Lake Management Group, and secretary Jessica Stites, executive editor of In These Times magazine.<\/p>\n
\"I am very happy to be part of the team saving this important media institution,\" Leavell said in a statement. \"There is a great opportunity here to expand the Reader coverage throughout the city and near suburbs of Chicago.\"<\/p>\n
Offices of the Reader are expected to move from the Sun-Times at 30 North Racine Avenue to the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side after the sale is finalized.<\/p>\n
Claiming a circulation of 85,000, the free weekly has been losing money for years. Staff reductions and budget cuts led editorial employees to vote unanimously to join the Chicago News Guild in 2015. After nearly two years of negotiations, a strike threat and a change of ownership, staffers ratified their first union contract in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tracy Baim, a trailblazing Chicago journalist and the longtime publisher and executive editor of Windy City Times, has been named publisher of the Chicago Reader. Dorothy Leavell, who heads the leadership team buying the alternative weekly from the parent company of the Sun-Times, announced Baim\u2019s hiring Thursday. Leavell will serve as chairman of the board... 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\/19240"}],"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=19240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19246,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19240\/revisions\/19246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}