{"id":7482,"date":"2015-04-22T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7482"},"modified":"2015-04-22T06:14:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:14:37","slug":"reader-search-for-new-editor-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/04\/22\/reader-search-for-new-editor-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader search for new editor on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6388\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/04\/22\/reader-search-for-new-editor-on-hold\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6388\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6388\" alt=\"Chicago Reader\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Reader.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Reader.png 636w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Reader-300x191.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Reader-150x95.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Reader-400x255.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Reader-200x127.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Chicago Reader<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Months after Mara Shalhoup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2015\/01\/19\/reader-editor-mara-shalhoup-heads-for-l-a\/\" target=\"_blank\">resigned<\/a> as editor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Reader<\/a>\u00a0and headed out to Los Angeles, the job remains open. Wide open.<\/p>\n<p>Shalhoup\u2019s departure in February was followed by the resignation of R.J. Flowers as director of advertising in March, leaving the 44-year-old alternative weekly without top editorial or sales leadership.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Neither position is expected to be filled, however, until owner<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrapports.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Wrapports LLC <\/a>hires a new publisher \u2014 a post that\u2019s been vacant since the parent company of the <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sun-Times <\/a>acquired the Reader from Creative Loafing in 2012. Alison Draper, the Reader's last publisher, left just after the $3 million sale of the weekly newspaper and its website.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7483\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jake-Malooley.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7483\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7483\" alt=\"Jake Malooley\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jake-Malooley-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jake-Malooley-150x150.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jake-Malooley-57x57.png 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jake-Malooley-72x72.png 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jake-Malooley-114x114.png 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jake-Malooley-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Malooley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jim Kirk, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Sun-Times, told Reader staffers in a meeting last week that the company believes the next publisher should have a role in the hiring of a new editor. No time frame was announced for either move.<\/p>\n<p>While Shalhoup\u2019s former position goes unfilled, managing editor Jake Malooley continues to serve as interim editor. Malooley<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/03\/13\/time-out-editor-jumps-to-the-reader\/\" target=\"_blank\"> joined<\/a> the Reader in 2014 after eight years at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/chicago?\" target=\"_blank\">Time Out Chicago,<\/a> where he rose to senior editor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process continues,\u201d Kirk said Tuesday. \u201cJake has done a fabulous job filling in in the interim, and we\u2019re moving as fast as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months after Mara Shalhoup resigned as editor of the Chicago Reader\u00a0and headed out to Los Angeles, the job remains open. Wide open. Shalhoup\u2019s departure in February was followed by the resignation of R.J. Flowers as director of advertising in March, leaving the 44-year-old alternative weekly without top editorial or sales leadership.<\/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\/7482"}],"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=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7486,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}