<\/a>Chicago Sun-Times (July 11, 2007)<\/p><\/div>\n
Jacobson, 51, first made national headlines in 2007 when she was fired after a decade as a reporter for NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5.<\/p>\n
Her reporting methods were called into question when she took her two children swimming at the southwest suburban home of a man whose wife had been missing for months. A photographer from rival CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 shot video of the bikini-clad Jacobson over a neighbor\u2019s backyard fence. It ended her TV news career.<\/p>\n
Since 2010 the Mount Prospect native has been hosting mornings at AM 560 The Answer. Dan Proft joined her as co-host in 2015.<\/p>\n
Last year Jacobson sued Governor J.B. Pritzker for barring her from his daily coronavirus media briefings because he considered her a political activist. Backed by the conservative public-interest Liberty Justice Center, Jacobson claimed the governor's ban violated her First Amendment rights as a journalist. Pritzker rescinded the ban.<\/p>\n
Not bad for a Chicago parent and volleyball coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twice in the past three days Amy Jacobson appeared on the Fox News morning show \u201cFox & Friends\u201d to comment on the dispute over reopening Chicago Public Schools for in-person learning. On the air Jacobson was identified only as \u201ca Chicago parent and volleyball coach\u201d before she launched into a broadside against the Chicago Teachers... 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\/28451"}],"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=28451"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28486,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions\/28486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}