{"id":8448,"date":"2015-08-06T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2015-08-07T06:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T11:56:22","slug":"reporter-mckinney-finds-eager-editors-at-crains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/08\/06\/reporter-mckinney-finds-eager-editors-at-crains\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinney finds eager editors at Crain\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dave<\/a>

<\/a> Dave McKinney<\/p><\/div>\n

Dave McKinney, the veteran political reporter who left the Sun-Times<\/a> last year in a blaze of headlines,<\/a> is back in print.<\/p>\n

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.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a significant piece of work,\u201d Steve Reiss, managing editor of Crain\u2019s Chicago Business, said of McKinney\u2019s 3,000-word special report,<\/a> which will appear online Friday and in the weekly print edition Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty ambitious look at historically how the state pension situation got so royally screwed up,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s got sweep, it\u2019s got great analysis, it\u2019s got deep understanding. I\u2019m very hopeful it will help people understand how this mess happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKinney resigned late last October after 19 years as Springfield bureau chief and political writer for the Sun-Times, citing interference from the campaign of Republican candidate for governor Bruce Rauner (who went on to defeat incumbent Pat Quinn).<\/p>\n

\u201cReaders of the Sun-Times need to be able to trust the paper,\u201d McKinney wrote in an impassioned 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>\n

Crain\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}]}}