Chicago magazine.<\/a>\u00a0The newspaper and the monthly magazine are both owned by Alden Global Capital.<\/p>\nIn announcing Day's appointment, new Chicago editor Amy Carr wrote: \"Jennifer is a brilliant, creative and meticulous editor who will help us continue the magazine\u2019s long history of rich storytelling and service journalism. She will be an invaluable resource as we look for new ways to explore this great city as it emerges from a year like no other.\"<\/p>\n
Day, a graduate of Wayne State University, joined the Tribune in 2012 to launch the Printers Row Journal. She previously worked for the Toledo Blade and Detroit Legal News.<\/p>\n
Here is the full text of Ridder\u2019s email to staff:<\/strong><\/p>\nI am pleased to announce that Chris Jones has been named editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune. For almost two decades, Chris has been covering culture and theater for the Tribune. As Chicago\u2019s\u00a0pre-eminent culture critic, he has a deep understanding of the city, his home for 30 years, and has built a reputation as frank, fair-minded and scrupulously accurate. Can there be more important attributes for an editorial page editor?\u00a0<\/em>
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\nDuring the pandemic, Chris' Sunday columns pivoted to urban affairs, politics and, especially, a dedication to the reopening of Chicago and the equitable future economic growth of the city he clearly loves.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
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\nA former professor and higher-education administrator before he joined the Tribune,\u00a0Chris is committed to finding new and diverse voices from a variety of ideological perspectives to have their say in the paper.<\/em>
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\nChris also brings an innovation mindset and vast entrepreneurial energy to the job. His work in building out Theater Loop as a destination site for fans of Chicago\u2019s arts and entertainment scene went far beyond writing reviews. Chris also dug in deep on and brought insight to questions around engaging audiences, driving subscriptions and developing alternative business models. That inventive thinking will be valuable as the Editorial Board adapts approaches for an evolving digital audience. <\/em>
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\nAs editorial page editor, Chris is committed to upholding the Tribune\u2019s leading citizen status, and its\u00a0statement of principles, which include the newspaper\u2019s commitment \u201cto inform and lead public opinion, to foster commerce and industry, and to furnish that vital check upon government which no constitution can.\u201d He will join Alex Rodriguez and Clarence Page on the Tribune\u2019s Editorial Board. <\/em>
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\nColleen Kujawa maintains her role as a content editor in the department, now reporting to Chris. Joining the team, on an interim basis for now, will be Jorie Goins as a content editor reporting to Chris. Jorie comes over from Tribune Content Agency, where she has been reporting, writing and editing TCA premium columnists and contributors.<\/em>
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\nChris\u2019 first day in this new role will be July 12th. In addition, he will continue to cover the major shows in Chicago and on Broadway for the Tribune, writing those reviews under his own trusted name. <\/em>
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\nI want to thank Kristen McQueary for her excellent work, first as an editorial writer and columnist and, for the past 15 months, as editorial page editor.\u00a0 She will transition with Chris over the next few days.\u00a0 <\/em>
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