{"id":8454,"date":"2015-08-06T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2015-08-06T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:31:39","slug":"readers-dumke-traded-to-sun-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/08\/06\/readers-dumke-traded-to-sun-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader\u2019s Dumke traded to Sun-Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Mick Dumke<\/p><\/div>\n

Mick Dumke, the highly respected senior writer at the Chicago Reader,<\/a> is about to be traded to the Sun-Times.<\/a> Both publications are owned by Sun-Times Media parent company Wrapports LLC.<\/p>\n

Starting later this month, Dumke will join the Sun-Times as a full-time investigative reporter, beefing up the paper\u2019s award-winning Watchdog team of Tim Novak, Chris Fusco and Dan Mihalopoulos.<\/p>\n

\u201cMick is an outstanding, dogged reporter who knows city, county and state government as well as anyone in the business,\u201d said Jim Kirk, publisher and editor of Sun-Times Media. \u201cHe will be a terrific addition to the best investigative team in the city. We can't wait for him to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

The move will reunite Dumke with Kirk and Mihalopoulos, who worked together at the Chicago News Cooperative, a nonprofit news venture that ceased operation in 2012.<\/p>\n

A graduate of Northwestern University and McCormick Theological Seminary, Dumke, 44, first joined the Reader in 2005. Except for his nine-month stint at the News Cooperative, he has worked at the alternative weekly ever since. He previously was a political writer and managing editor at the Chicago Reporter. <\/a>He also has been an adjunct journalism professor at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University.<\/p>\n

In a related action Thursday, Kirk said the Sun-Times has broadened its working relationship with the Better Government Association,<\/a> the nonprofit agency that investigates allegations of waste, fraud and corruption in city, county, suburban and state government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking to do three or four big projects a year and really up the ante in terms of the types of investigations we\u2019re doing,\u201d Kirk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mick Dumke, the highly respected senior writer at the Chicago Reader, is about to be traded to the Sun-Times. Both publications are owned by Sun-Times Media parent company Wrapports LLC. Starting later this month, Dumke will join the Sun-Times as a full-time investigative reporter, beefing up the paper\u2019s award-winning Watchdog team of Tim Novak, Chris... 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\/8454"}],"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=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8466,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions\/8466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}