{"id":8989,"date":"2015-09-30T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8989"},"modified":"2015-09-30T00:21:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:21:59","slug":"business-beckons-tribune-columnist-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/09\/30\/business-beckons-tribune-columnist-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Business lures Tribune columnist Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8990\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/09\/30\/business-beckons-tribune-columnist-harris\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8990\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8990\" alt=\"Melissa Harris\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Melissa-Harris-1024x658.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Melissa-Harris-1024x658.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Melissa-Harris-300x193.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Melissa-Harris-150x96.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Melissa-Harris-400x257.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Melissa-Harris-800x514.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Melissa-Harris-200x128.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Melissa-Harris.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Melissa Harris<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Melissa Harris is leaving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> after six years as a business columnist to join <a href=\"www.origincapitalpartners.com\" target=\"_blank\">Origin Capital Partners,<\/a> a Chicago-based private equity firm, as vice president of marketing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an opportunity for me to be on the vanguard of the crowdfunding movement as I will be responsible for a new online platform, allowing investors like you and me to participate side-by-side with big pension funds and endowments in their real estate acquisitions,\u201d she announced on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melissaharrisreporter\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> Tuesday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University, Harris began as an intern in the Washington bureau of Tribune Publishing in 2000 and worked for the company\u2019s Orlando Sentinel and Baltimore Sun before joining the Chicago Tribune in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese upcoming weeks will certainly be bittersweet,\u201d Harris told colleagues in an email. \u201cThe Tribune is the only company I've ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her last day at the Tribune will be October 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Harris is leaving the Chicago Tribune after six years as a business columnist to join Origin Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, as vice president of marketing. \u201cThis is an opportunity for me to be on the vanguard of the crowdfunding movement as I will be responsible for a new online platform, allowing... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/09\/30\/business-beckons-tribune-columnist-harris\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/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\/8989"}],"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=8989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8992,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}