Let the hedge funds and grave dancers hold their own ball. On November 20 I'll be talking to my heroes, to my city and to my beloved peeps. Thank you [Chicago Journalists Association] for giving this Chicago child a chance to tell it like it is. . . . Forgive me for calling this a mid-lifetime achievement because I do hope to write another chapter. But Next Gen investigative reporters, the endless future is yours and yours alone.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Karen Hawkins, co-editor in chief of the Chicago Reader, has been named co-publisher of the alternative newspaper. \u201cI am so excited to be joined by Karen as co-publisher,\u201d said Tracy Baim, who's been publisher since 2018. \u201cWe worked together 20 years ago at Windy City Times, and have worked to... 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\/27519"}],"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=27519"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27531,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27519\/revisions\/27531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}