{"id":7697,"date":"2015-05-19T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2015-05-19T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:16:42","slug":"lori-rackl-unpacks-new-blog-on-tv-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/05\/19\/lori-rackl-unpacks-new-blog-on-tv-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Rackl unpacks blog on TV, travel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Lori Rackl<\/p><\/div>\n

By the time Lori Rackl accepted a buyout<\/a> from the Sun-Times<\/a> last February, she\u2019d earned a solid reputation as an insightful TV critic and a seasoned travel editor.<\/p>\n

Now making her mark as an independent journalist, Rackl has combined both interests \u2014 television and travel \u2014 in a smart new website.<\/p>\n

TVtrippin.com<\/a> officially debuted this week with a review of Sunday night\u2019s \u201cMad Men\u201d series finale and a feature on a \u201cmystery man\u201d who tracks TV series and movies filming around Chicago for a Twitter account.<\/a><\/p>\n

Rackl calls her new blog \u201ca work in progress\u201d that she has been fine-tuning with Web designer Rex Chekal. In the meantime, she is continuing to write free-lance travel pieces for the Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0and the Boston Globe,<\/a> among other publications.<\/p>\n

\u201cNews, reviews and tidbits about any TV show \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s all fair game,\u201d she wrote in an introduction<\/a> to readers. \u201cBut you\u2019ll probably notice the site skewing toward series filmed in Chicago. The city is where I was born, raised (western suburbs . . . Addison to be exact) and now live (West Loop . . . right across the river from my old office at the Sun-Times).<\/p>\n

\u201cAny places are fair game, but the focus will be on travel that\u2019s related to television. That might mean a story about visiting 'Game of Thrones' filming locations in Northern Ireland or writing about 'Mad Men'-inspired things to do in New York City this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

After 11 years at the Sun-Times (including stints as TV critic and travel editor), Rackl was among 15 editorial employees who accepted buyouts in a management plan to offset layoffs. She is married to Chris Fusco, who continues as an investigative reporter at the Sun-Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the time Lori Rackl accepted a buyout from the Sun-Times last February, she\u2019d earned a solid reputation as an insightful TV critic and a seasoned travel editor. Now making her mark as an independent journalist, Rackl has combined both interests \u2014 television and travel \u2014 in a smart new website. TVtrippin.com officially debuted this... 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\/7697"}],"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=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7702,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}