public letter <\/a>of resignation. \u201cThey need to know a wall exists between owners and the newsroom to preserve the integrity of what is published. A breach in that wall exists at the Sun-Times. It\u2019s had a chilling effect in the newsroom. . . . I\u2019m convinced this newspaper no longer has the backs of reporters like me.\u201d<\/p>\nCrain\u2019s Chicago Business editors say they\u2019re looking forward to more from McKinney.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have a formal relationship; what we have is a warm<\/em> relationship. We hope that we\u2019ll be able to do more work with him,\u201d said Reiss, adding: \u201cHe\u2019s fabulous. He\u2019s a pro\u2019s pro.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McKinney, the veteran political reporter who left the Sun-Times last year in a blaze of headlines, is back in print. In addition to several freelance stories published recently by the New York Times and Chicago magazine, McKinney has just written a major analysis of the Illinois pension crisis for Crain\u2019s Chicago Business.<\/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\/8448"}],"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=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8467,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions\/8467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}