‘Back in August 2025, a progressive-minded Seattle-based publisher, Brady Walkinshaw, purchased the struggling Chicago Reader and committed to honoring its founding mission as a key player in Chicago’s alternative media scene.¹’
Charles: “I might start doing this more, even though nobody reads these kinds of articles. We need to bring our luminaries out of the shadows of the small independent news organizations where they toil without asking for anything in return (ProPublica, I’m looking at you).”
Charles, I emphatically disagree with you. People will read this. It’s important to introduce such committed, knowledgeable, smart people, women who represent the majority of like minded people. Women like Sarah Conway. I really appreciate this. I mean, check out her CV.
“While there, she won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting, the Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, and the Izzy Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media.” I don’t know what the Izzy Award is, but I love the sounds of it (I know, I could Google it, but so can you!). She is also the Annenberg Visiting Chair of Journalism at Notre Dame University.²”
Clearly mostly for Chicago residents, but some interesting articles. One comment on the piece on the destruction of homeless encampments. We in Seattle have several organized ones, and for the most part they are left alone. One in particular is near me, on a very busy street, difficult access because of it, but it was set up for folks with trailers and was VERY well self-policed, kept clean, no overspill outside its enclosed area. I donated stuff to it, though pulling over to do so was a hazardous undertaking. But worth the effort.
Then the owner of the land apparently sold it. So the homeless moved elsewhere, I know not where. In its place--a pickle ball court Equally difficult to get to. I don't really wish it well.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is also owned by a non profit. I don’t subscribe to it because I can’t afford it, but I often see some articles on line. It is usually fair, and it did endorse Kamala Harris for president, so that’s something positive.
‘Back in August 2025, a progressive-minded Seattle-based publisher, Brady Walkinshaw, purchased the struggling Chicago Reader and committed to honoring its founding mission as a key player in Chicago’s alternative media scene.¹’
Charles: “I might start doing this more, even though nobody reads these kinds of articles. We need to bring our luminaries out of the shadows of the small independent news organizations where they toil without asking for anything in return (ProPublica, I’m looking at you).”
Charles, I emphatically disagree with you. People will read this. It’s important to introduce such committed, knowledgeable, smart people, women who represent the majority of like minded people. Women like Sarah Conway. I really appreciate this. I mean, check out her CV.
“While there, she won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting, the Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, and the Izzy Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media.” I don’t know what the Izzy Award is, but I love the sounds of it (I know, I could Google it, but so can you!). She is also the Annenberg Visiting Chair of Journalism at Notre Dame University.²”
Wonderful!! Thank you for this.
Thank you! She's all I wanted to be when I was a journalism student. And much more.
I chose another path but have remained a student of the news biz of sorts. Real admiration for her.
Clearly mostly for Chicago residents, but some interesting articles. One comment on the piece on the destruction of homeless encampments. We in Seattle have several organized ones, and for the most part they are left alone. One in particular is near me, on a very busy street, difficult access because of it, but it was set up for folks with trailers and was VERY well self-policed, kept clean, no overspill outside its enclosed area. I donated stuff to it, though pulling over to do so was a hazardous undertaking. But worth the effort.
Then the owner of the land apparently sold it. So the homeless moved elsewhere, I know not where. In its place--a pickle ball court Equally difficult to get to. I don't really wish it well.
Thanks, Susan. The incongruence between a pickleball court being there and a homeless encampment is the stuff of novels.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is also owned by a non profit. I don’t subscribe to it because I can’t afford it, but I often see some articles on line. It is usually fair, and it did endorse Kamala Harris for president, so that’s something positive.
That’s interesting, thanks. Another big city old time newspaper turned over to a non profit.