{"id":28348,"date":"2021-01-25T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=28348"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T19:15:35","slug":"robservations-crains-daily-line-team-launch-chicago-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2021\/01\/25\/robservations-crains-daily-line-team-launch-chicago-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Crain's, Daily Line team up to launch Chicago Index"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> The Chicago Index<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Jim Kirk<\/p><\/div>\n

Crain\u2019s Chicago Business<\/a> and The Daily Line,<\/a> the subscription newsletter on state and local politics, are teaming up to launch The Chicago Index, <\/a>a quarterly opinion poll on policy and government issues in Chicago and Illinois. Along with ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>as broadcast partner, The Chicago Index will debut in February with results of a survey that will gauge public sentiment and voter satisfaction with government leaders, elected officials and the governments serving them. (Here is the link.<\/a>) \u201cBy pairing the Daily Line's deep focus on public policy and governmental issues with Crain's authoritative politics coverage and commitment to fostering useful public policy discussions, we believe this project will help us all better understand the evolving priorities of Chicago-area residents and drive positive change,\u201d said Jim Kirk,<\/strong> publisher and executive editor of Crain\u2019s Chicago Business. Added Daily Line publisher Don Vincent:<\/strong> \"This project fills an unmet need in Chicago for an ongoing, independent assessment of public sentiment on key issues that will give decision-makers the baseline knowledge they need to implement useful policies.\" Survey participants may sign up for free at TheChicagoIndex.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kim Gordon<\/p><\/div>\n

Kim Gordon,<\/strong> afternoon news anchor at WGN 720-AM,<\/a> has resigned after 15 years as an anchor and reporter at the Nexstar Media Group news\/talk station. Until a permanent replacement is named, reporter Lauren Lapka<\/strong> will be filling in as news anchor on Steve Bertrand's<\/strong> afternoon show, according to Mary Sandberg Boyle,<\/strong> vice president and general manager of WGN. All signs point to Gordon joining Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS 890-AM<\/a> where she would replace John Dempsey<\/strong> as news anchor on Big John Howell's<\/strong> afternoon show. But WLS program director Stephanie Tichenor<\/strong> said nothing is official. \"We are still working on this with two to three finalists,\" she said. When Tichenor was director of news and operations at WGN, she promoted Gordon to succeed Judy Pielach<\/strong> in afternoons in 2019. Pielach now co-hosts mornings at WLS. Soon all three could be working together at WLS.<\/p>\n

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Ayana Contreras<\/p><\/div>\n

Alumni of The Chicago Reporter<\/a> will gather for an online reunion this week as the nonprofit investigative news organization approaches its 50th anniversary. Ayana Contreras,<\/strong> host of \"Reclaimed Soul\" on Chicago Public Media's Vocalo platform, will appear as special guest at the celebration, which will stream live on the Instagram account of the Chicago Reader, <\/a>starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. (Here is the link.<\/a>) \"We're hosting the event to celebrate all of the Reporter's supporters over the years \u2014 from alumni to civic leaders \u2014 and the racial justice activism that swept across the city in 2020,\" said Laura Washington,<\/strong> former editor and publisher of the Reporter. Washington now is political analyst for ABC 7 and columnist for the Sun-Times.<\/p>\n

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Larry King<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago, hello: The death of talk show legend Larry King<\/strong> at 87 Saturday brought back memories of an autumn afternoon in 1984 \u2014 about a year before he joined CNN \u2014 when King came to Chicago to promote his all-night call-in show on the Mutual Broadcasting System, then airing on WIND 560-AM. \u201cYou can\u2019t teach curiosity,\u201d King told me at that first meeting. \u201cIf you\u2019re more interested in the sounds of your own voice, you\u2019re a bad interviewer. If you\u2019re complicated, you\u2019re a bad interviewer. And if you\u2019re really not curious, you\u2019re a bad interviewer. You can tell when someone\u2019s really curious or just going through the motions. I think it\u2019s an in-born thing. I\u2019ve always had it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Joseph Carano:<\/strong> If NBC Sports Chicago has no intention of covering Chicago sports, declare bankruptcy and please move on. Paying plenty on satellite, cable, etc. to support what is left of their coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Crain\u2019s Chicago Business and The Daily Line, the subscription newsletter on state and local politics, are teaming up to launch The Chicago Index, a quarterly opinion poll on policy and government issues in Chicago and Illinois. Along with ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 as broadcast partner, The Chicago Index will debut in... 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\/28348"}],"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=28348"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28369,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28348\/revisions\/28369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}