Way back in the 70s, when I finished my Friday afternoon shift at WTTW, I would stop in at Malnati\u2019s in Lincolnwood to spend an hour with friends. On several occasions, Barry [Rozner] came in after his vendor job at Wrigley Field. In the course of our conversations, he asked how I\u2019d gotten into the business, and I asked him about his aspirations. I thought then that he would realize his dream of becoming a sportswriter, but never imagined that he\u2019d become the best in the business. Godspeed, Barry!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Alden Global Capital's first day as owner of Chicago-based Tribune Publishing turned out to be Terry Jimenez's last day on the job as CEO. Jimenez, the sole member of the company's board of directors to vote against the sale to Alden, cashed out Tuesday with $2.55 million. Heath Freeman, president... 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\/29801"}],"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=29801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29811,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29801\/revisions\/29811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}