Bill Cameron has been my mentor, colleague and friend since I walked through the glass doors at WMAQ in 1987. In November of that year, Mayor Harold Washington died suddenly and I was assigned to field produce Bill. We were together for days straight covering every moment - from the hospital announcement to the funeral to the ensuing political melee to replace him. Watching Bill that week was a masters course in Chicago politics but more importantly a doctoral study in Chicago journalism. Bill even made me climb up the side of City Hall to interview a protester perched on a second floor ledge. He mentored countless reporters inside and out of the Harry Golden Press Room at City Hall, poetic since Harry was his mentor. Bill leaves journalism at a dark moment for both this city and local news. Hopefully, there will be some young broadcast and internet journalists who will follow his formula of knowing a \u201cgood storrrry\u201d and tell it wisely. Bill, congratulations on a job done better than anyone ever has.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: As part of a \"multiplatform transformation\" of its news brands nationwide, Audacy is putting more eggs in the digital news basket of WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM. Lauren Hill, who was a content editor and digital producer at the Chicago Tribune before she left with a buyout last month, has been hired... 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\/30411"}],"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=30411"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30428,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411\/revisions\/30428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}