Monthly Archive for January 2009

Chicagoist just put out one of its occasional calls for new writers. It seems they’re looking for people to write as much as four posts per week. The pay? $0.

Indiana law professor Jennifer Drobac researches legal conflicts over state gay marriage law. Here’s more from my Q&A with her that was cut from the final version.

It’s time to bid farewell to yet another national reporter covering Chicago and the Midwest, the latest in a long string of recent reductions to local bureaus.

Blitztwit

I’m officially twittering now. Will do my best to keep people updated w/o wasting time (mine or yours). I’ve been told it’s basically an impossible balance. You can follow me at blitztwit.

There’s a great essay in this month’s Columbia Journalism Review about what’s wrong with sports journalism and how to fix it. Gary Andrew Poole laments the disappearance of literary ambitions at the hands of speed and wow factor.

There’s no simple way to research political candidates in Chicago (or in most cities/states, for that matter). So, inspired by voter information guides in San Francisco, I’ve launched a little civics experiment. It’s called the Chicago Elections wiki. The first test of the site will focus on candidates in the Special Election for Rahm Emanuel’s [...]

Women CEOs

In their annual performance tracking analysis of female chief executives, USA Today highlights a stat that bears repeating no matter how many times you’ve heard or read it: Among CEOs of America’s 500 largest publicly traded companies, only 13 are women.