{"id":5075,"date":"2014-09-24T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2014-09-24T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:54:52","slug":"tribune-problem-solver-jon-yates-leaves-dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/09\/24\/tribune-problem-solver-jon-yates-leaves-dream-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribune problem solver Jon Yates leaving \u2018dream job\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Jon Yates<\/p><\/div>\n

Now your problems will have to be someone else\u2019s problem, as far as Jon Yates is concerned.<\/p>\n

After nine years as the Chicago Tribune\u2019s<\/a> resident consumer advocate and problem solver, Yates is giving up what he called his \u201cdream job\u201d and leaving the paper voluntarily. He's been a Tribune reporter since 2000.<\/p>\n

Through his popular and powerful What\u2019s Your Problem?<\/a> column, Yates has helped countless readers overcome obstacles from airlines, utilities, government agencies, health insurance companies and others corporate giants, and saved them millions of dollars.\u00a0In 2011 he wrote the book What's Your Problem?: Cut Through Red Tape, Challenge the System, and Get Your Money Back,<\/a><\/em> an indispensable guide to anyone lost in the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t have asked for a better run at the Tribune, which was my dream job from the time I was a teenager growing up in Iowa through the early years of my reporting career,\u201d Yates said Wednesday. \u201cWriting the What\u2019s Your Problem? column was particularly gratifying \u2013 keeping businesses, agencies and organizations honest while helping people who had nowhere else to turn. That was why I got into journalism, and I would not trade the last nine years for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yates will be joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, where his wife, former Tribune investigative medical reporter Trine Tsouderos, works as a director in PwC\u2019s Chicago-based Health Research Institute. His last day at the Tribune will be October 7.\u00a0\u201cThe new job is an opportunity to try something new for a company that I know is great,\u201d he said. \u201cThe more I spoke to the folks at PwC, the more I was convinced it was a perfect fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Iowa native and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Iowa, Yates previously worked as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean, the Palm Springs Desert Sun and the Iowa City Press-Citizen.<\/p>\n

Yates said he\u2019s not sure whether his bosses will continue his column, but he hopes so. \u201cI think it\u2019s a great resource for the community. Using the might of the Tribune to help people who otherwise might not have a voice is, in my opinion, incredibly important. The decision on whether to keep the column, however, will be made by someone several pay grades above me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now your problems will have to be someone else\u2019s problem, as far as Jon Yates is concerned. After nine years as the Chicago Tribune\u2019s resident consumer advocate and problem solver, Yates is giving up what he called his \u201cdream job\u201d and leaving the paper voluntarily. He's been a Tribune reporter since 2000.<\/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\/5075"}],"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=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}