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People With Passion: Jonathan Eig

People With Passion: Jonathan Eig
A People With Passion series Chicago journalism January 30, 2012: Jonathan Eig In this excerpt from the 25th installment of Jack M Silverstein’s Chicago journalism interview series, Jonathan Eig tells the story of the creation of his new Chicago sports site ChicagoSide, which debuts in full April 2, 2012. - - -  I was sitting in a bar... Read more »
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March 29, 2012 at 11:02 am
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March 17, 1972: Mike Royko on St. Paddy's in Chicago

March 17, 1972: Mike Royko on St. Paddy's in Chicago
We’ll be back this Wednesday with a new Chicago journalism People With Passion with Jonathan Eig of Chicago Side, and since I am about to head out to, in the approximate words of Pete Venkman, “Get crazy in the streets of Chicago,” I figured I would take a moment to bang out a terrific Royko... Read more »
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March 17, 2012 at 10:53 am
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People With Passion: Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Part II

People With Passion: Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Part II
A People With Passion series Chicago journalism January 24, 2012: Jim DeRogatis In Part II of this 24th installment of my Chicago journalism interview series, Chicago music critic Jim DeRogatis discusses his tenure at Rolling Stone, his return to the Sun-Times, why newspapers are dying, and why Britney Spears could deliver one of the world’s great nights... Read more »
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March 8, 2012 at 8:58 am
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People With Passion: Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Part I

People With Passion: Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Part I
A People With Passion series Chicago journalism January 24, 2012: Jim DeRogatis We are meeting in Jim DeRogatis‘s office at Columbia College. Jim, or DeRo as he sometimes calls himself, is a large, excitable, generous man — he is in person very much as he is on his radio show Sound Opinions, and during our... Read more »
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March 6, 2012 at 8:31 am
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People With Passion: David Drake, music writer

People With Passion: David Drake, music writer
A People With Passion series Chicago journalism January 18, 2012: David Drake In the 23rd installment of Jack M Silverstein’s Chicago journalism interview series, music writer David Drake of Pitchfork, Fader, the Tribune, and his blog somanyshrimp.com discusses his life as a working freelance writer, and describes the process of how he created the connections... Read more »
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February 15, 2012 at 11:34 am
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EOC spotlight on: Psalm One's #RealTalkTuesday

EOC spotlight on: Psalm One's #RealTalkTuesday
This time tomorrow you will have already read all about music writer David Drake of Pitchfork, Fader, the Tribune, and frankly, everywhere, in Jack M Silverstein’s latest Chicago journalism People With Passion interview. But right now, for Valentine’s Day, we want to highlight the weirdest, scariest, funniest, and, yikes, oddly-sexiest Valentine’s Day tribute video that... Read more »
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February 14, 2012 at 8:29 pm
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People With Passion: Tran Ha, RedEye

People With Passion: Tran Ha, RedEye
A People With Passion series Chicago journalism December 29, 2011: Tran Ha In the 22nd installment of Jack M Silverstein’s Chicago journalism interview series, RedEye managing editor Tran Ha discusses her arrival at the RedEye from the Detroit Free Press, taking over the RedEye’s top editor position amidst a changing journalism landscape, and the challenges... Read more »
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February 1, 2012 at 11:55 am
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People With Passion: Sam Smith, Part III

People With Passion: Sam Smith, Part III
A People with Passion series Chicago journalism December 24, 2011: Sam Smith Here, in Part III of Jack M Silverstein’s three-part interview with Bulls writer Sam Smith, Sam discusses his departure from the Tribune, his arrival at Bulls.com, why his work at Bulls.com is “ the best journalism experience I’ve had ,” and why you... Read more »
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January 27, 2012 at 12:12 pm
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EOC spotlight on: Studs Terkel & Nelson Algren

EOC spotlight on: Studs Terkel & Nelson Algren
Big shout to Dmitry Samarov of Chicago Hack for uploading a few gems… nuhtin’ much… just Studs Terkel reading Nelson Algren’s work, including Chicago: City On the Make… ya know, nuhtin’ much. I started transcribing City On the Make last year, and started video taping readings last week. But good golly, Studs reading Algren! Love this. Studs reads... Read more »
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January 25, 2012 at 12:05 pm
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People With Passion: Sam Smith, Part II

People With Passion: Sam Smith, Part II
A People with Passion series Chicago journalism December 24, 2011: Sam Smith Here, in Part II of Jack M Silverstein’s three-part interview with Bulls writer Sam Smith, Sam discusses the making of The Jordan Rules, his book about the 1990-91 Chicago Bulls. PART II OF III CLICK HERE FOR PART I - - - I... Read more »
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January 25, 2012 at 9:41 am
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