There's rarely been a \"rainy day\" in the news business when working alongside Steve Miller. Many reporters (yours truly included) have made a practice of saving phone numbers on potential story ideas, past stories that could be followed up and leads to check. No one has done that better than Steve. I can't remember how many times I heard over the years, \"As WBBM first told you several months ago . . .\u201d followed by Steve Miller stories that were often better than the original. For years, he has been particularly sensitive to stories of those whose bodies went unclaimed at the Cook County morgue. The \"Unclaimed\" series won a ton of awards. WBBM is losing another day-in, day-out top talent. I'm glad to hear that he will continue to do occasional work for Newsradio.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Days after Zoraida Sambolin returned as morning news anchor to WMAQ-Channel 5\u00a0following a four-month leave of absence, she\u2019s calling it quits. Sources said next Friday will be her last day at the NBC-owned station. It\u2019s not clear why she\u2019s leaving, but in a Facebook video Monday she said she had... 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\/30947"}],"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=30947"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30968,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30947\/revisions\/30968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}