Sunday's conversation at the Chicago Journalism Town Hall was great. For all the necessary conversation about inventing new business models and the blossoming of active collaborations, the strongest, most essential talk was about race, diversity, inclusion, equity. These are topics which have to be at the top of the list in every newsroom even when the conversation is hard or uncomfortable. The conversation is also way overdue and a tremendous opportunity. Almost all of us in this business have a long, long way to go. Yesterday was a worthy contribution to the conversation. Thanks to all the strong voices heard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Barry Cronin, the former Sun-Times sportswriter who's now editor of Chicago District Golfer magazine, has been named co-host of \"Scorecard,\" the weekly golf show on Entercom sports\/talk WSCR 670-AM. Starting April 4, he'll join co-host David Schuster, reporter and update anchor on The Score, from 6 to 8 a.m. Saturdays.... 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\/24608"}],"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=24608"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24619,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/revisions\/24619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}