{"id":19674,"date":"2018-10-29T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=19674"},"modified":"2018-10-29T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:00:05","slug":"robservations-three-finalists-named-dorothy-storck-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/10\/29\/robservations-three-finalists-named-dorothy-storck-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Three finalists named for Dorothy Storck Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Dorothy Leavell and Edwin Eisendrath<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Chicago Journalists Association<\/p><\/div>\n

Three Chicago area columnists have been named finalists for the Chicago Journalists Association\u2019s<\/a> 2018 Dorothy Storck Award. They are Mark Brown<\/strong> of the Sun-Times; Deborah Douglas,<\/strong> whose work has appeared in the Chicago Reporter and Vice News; and Mick Dumke<\/strong> of ProPublica Illinois. Winner of the $1,000 prize will be announced at the group\u2019s annual luncheon Saturday at Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery, 1 West Grand Avenue. (Here is the link for tickets.<\/a>) The award is named for the former reporter for Chicago\u2019s American and Chicago Today who died in 2015. Keynote speakers at the event will be Dorothy Leavell,<\/strong> publisher of the Chicago Crusader and new board chairman of the Chicago Reader, and Edwin Eisendrath,<\/strong> CEO of the Sun-Times.<\/p>\n

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Robb Ellis<\/p><\/div>\n

After filling in as a freelancer for more than a year, Robb Ellis<\/strong> has been hired as a full-time meteorologist at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2.<\/a> He\u2019ll be assigned weekend evening newscasts and serve as \u201cpoint person on our weather technology and graphics,\u201d according to news director Jeff Harris,<\/strong> who added: \u201cHis dedication and weather expertise is a perfect fit for the team.\u201d Ellis, former chief meteorologist at WIS, the NBC affiliate in his native Columbia, South Carolina, previously worked at WISH, the CW affiliate in Indianapolis. \u201cExcited for a new chapter in this stunning city and humbled to work with very talented colleagues,\u201d he tweeted.<\/a> The move follows the recent promotion<\/a> of Mary Kay Kleist<\/strong> to 5, 6 and 10 p.m. weekday meteorologist at CBS 2.<\/p>\n

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

Mark Jacob,<\/strong> who retired <\/a>in April as metro editor of the Chicago Tribune, has joined The Local News Initiative<\/a> led by Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism. He\u2019ll edit the project\u2019s website and chronicle the two-year project to help sustain local journalism in critical times. In his first post,<\/a> Jacob writes: \u201cIt's a jarring contradiction: The public has never had better access to news, yet local journalism is suffering a dramatic decline.\u201d Before joining the Tribune in 1999, Jacob was Sunday editor of the Sun-Times.<\/p>\n

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

Eighty years ago this week Orson Welles<\/strong> and The Mercury Theatre on the Air spooked America with their broadcast of \u201cThe War of the Worlds.\u201d Radio historian Steve Darnall<\/strong> will mark the milestone by hosting the original radio drama at 7 tonight on WLTL 88.1-FM,<\/a> the student radio station of Lyons Township High School in La Grange. He\u2019ll provide background and insight on the Halloween Eve dramatization of the H. G. Wells<\/strong> classic about a Martian invasion. Darnall, an alumnus of the station and a 1982 graduate of the west suburban high school, is host and producer of \u201cThose Were the Days,\u201d the weekly showcase for old-time radio, on College of DuPage\u2019s WDCB 90.9-FM.<\/p>\n

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

Friday's comment of the day:<\/a> Loren Beuke:<\/strong> Has anyone noticed how many people have been let go from WLS-AM since they moved to NBC Tower? This station needs a major overhaul, something radical, if they really want to regain their former glory days. Also, I don't want to knock a person when he is down, but if all the people expressing their sympathy toward Steve Dahl's departure had shown up in his ratings, he would still be on the air next year. . . . It just seems that the 2 to 6 p.m. shift is a graveyard for this station.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Three Chicago area columnists have been named finalists for the Chicago Journalists Association\u2019s 2018 Dorothy Storck Award. They are Mark Brown of the Sun-Times; Deborah Douglas, whose work has appeared in the Chicago Reporter and Vice News; and Mick Dumke of ProPublica Illinois. Winner of the $1,000 prize will be... 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\/19674"}],"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=19674"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19688,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674\/revisions\/19688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}