- John Kass
John Kass is a "Chicago Tribune" columnist. The son of a Greek immigrant grocer, Kass was born June 23, 1956, on the South Side of Chicago and grew up there and in Oak Lawn, IL. He held many jobs - retailer, ditch digger, waiter - before becoming a student of film at Columbia College in Chicago. There, he worked in the student newspaper and gained the attention of Daryle Feldmeir, … - Mary Schmich
Mary Theresa Schmich is a columnist for the "Chicago Tribune". Born in Savannah, Georgia, the oldest of eight children, Schmich grew up in Georgia, attended high school in Phoenix, Arizona, and earned a B.A. from Pomona College. After working in college admissions for three years and spending a year and a half in France, Schmich attended journalism school at Stanford. She has worked as a reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune, at the Orlando Sentinel and, … - Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips is a film critic for the "Chicago Tribune" newspaper. Previously he was the drama critic of the Tribune; the Los Angeles Times; the St. Paul Pioneer Press; the San Diego Union-Tribune; and the Dallas Times Herald. Since late 2006 he has made several guest appearances on "Ebert and Roeper," filling in for Roger Ebert while he was on medical leave. - Eric Zorn
Eric Zorn, born 1958, is a columnist and a blogger for the "Chicago Tribune". Zorn plays and is an advocate for folk music. Zorn is a 1980 graduate of the University of Michigan, in which he was a senior editor at the Michigan Daily and a creative writing/English literature major. After he had served a four-month internship at the Miami Herald, he came to work at the Chicago Tribune from 1980 forward. - David Haugh
David Haugh is an award-winning sports writer with the "Chicago Tribune". He began his career at the "South Bend (Ind.) Tribune", working there for nearly a decade before joining the "Chicago Tribune" as the paper's Chicago Bears beat writer. Currently, he is one of the "Tribune" sports section's sports "takeout" writers, taking on a variety of assignments. - Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications. - Phil Rosenthal
Phil Rosenthal , the Chicago Tribune's media columnist, has been a working journalist since 17, when he talked his way into a regular freelance gig with the Waukegan News-Sun while still in high school. - Clarence Page
Clarence Page (born June 2, 1947) is a journalist, syndicated columnist and member of the editorial board for the "Chicago Tribune". He is an occasional panelist on "The McLaughlin Group", a regular contributor of essays to "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting Service, and an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Sunday". - Mark Caro
Mark Caro is a film critic for the "Chicago Tribune". He is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. Caro agrees with the "Tomatometer" 80% of the time. - Tom Skilling
Emmy-winning journalist Tom Negovan joined WGN News in June 2005 as co-anchor of WGN News at Noon . Tom arrived in Chicago from Philadelphia, where he served as weekend anchor and investigative reporter at CBS-owned KYW-TV. While there, Tom anchored anniversary coverage of the 9/11 attacks from Ground Zero, reported around-the-clock on the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy from the Johnson Space Center in Houston and covered the war in Iraq live from Baghdad. - Gene Siskel
Eugene "Gene" Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 - February 20, 1999) was one of the world's most successful film critics. Along with on-screen partner Roger Ebert, they pioneered the popular weekly movie review TV show "Siskel & Ebert" until Siskel's death at age 53. - Matt Drudge
Matthew Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet journalist and a talk radio host. He is best known as the proprietor of the "Drudge Report" website, which attracted national attention when it was the first to break the news of a sexual relationship between a White House intern and President Bill Clinton (the "Monica Lewinsky scandal") in 1998. - David Axelrod
David Axelrod is a Democratic political consultant based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is perhaps best known for his work on the campaign of Barack Obama in for the U.S. Senate in 2004 and for President in 2008, the campaign of Deval Patrick for Governor of Massachusetts in 2006, and for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Axelrod is the senior partner of AKP Message & Media, and was a political writer for the Chicago Tribune. - Greg Kot
Greg Kot has been the rock critic of the "Chicago Tribune" since 1990. His biography of Wilco and the state of the music industry, "Wilco: Learning How to Die", was published in 2004 by Doubleday/Broadway Books. He is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and other national periodicals, and is the music analyst for Fox-TV morning newscasts. His work also has appeared in Encyclopaedia Britannica and numerous books, including "Harrison, … - Amy Dickinson
Amy Dickinson writes the syndicated advice column "Ask Amy". From her website at the "Chicago Tribune": :"In the tradition of the great personal advice columnists, Chicago Tribune's Dickinson is a plainspoken straight shooter who relates to readers of all ages. She answers personal questions by addressing issues from both her head and her heart. - Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman is a Pulitzer Prize winning and nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist for "Newsday". He joined the paper in February of 2001. Before that, Walt worked for "The Times-Picayune" in New Orleans from 1989 to 2001, The Scranton (PA) Times from 1985-1989, and a chain of 13 award-winning Baltimore and Washington suburban weeklies from 1982-1985. Walt, 49, a graduate of The University of Cincinnati, … - Bob Harris
Bob Harris (born 1963) is an American radio commentator, writer, stand-up comedian, and eight-time "Jeopardy!" winner. From 1998-2002, his daily political commentaries aired on an average of 75 radio stations across the U.S., winning awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and the Associated Press. He was also the morning drive-time host on the Working Assets attempt at explicitly liberal talk radio, RadioForChange.com, … - Jan Crawford Greenburg
Jan Crawford Greenburg, a University of Chicago Law School alumna, is a legal correspondent for ABC News. She previously was legal affairs editor for the "Chicago Tribune" and provided legal analysis on the Supreme Court of the United States for the PBS program "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer". "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court", her book on the modern Supreme Court and its Justices, … - Carol Marin
Carol Marin was named NBC5's Political Editor in 2006, covering state, local and national political stories. ... Carol's career began in Knoxville, Tennessee at WBIR-TV and continued at WSM-TV in Nashville where she both anchored and reported. In 1978, she returned home to Chicago and NBC5 News where she worked as a reporter and anchored the 6 & 10 p.m. newscasts until May 1997. - Rick Telander
Rick Telander is a sports columnist for the "Chicago Sun-Times". Hired in 1995 from "Sports Illustrated" where he was a Senior Editor, Telander's presence at the newspaper was expected to counter the stable of sports columnist the rival "Chicago Tribune" had. Telander is a native of Peoria, Illinois and attended Northwestern University on a football scholarship. He played for coach Alex Agase and his teammates included Mike Adamle, … - Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes is a Chicago journalist and the founder and editor of The Beachwood Reporter, a Chicago-centric webzine that launched in February 2006. Before starting the "Reporter", Rhodes was a reporter for "Chicago" magazine and wrote "Press Box", a media column on the magazine's Web site. Before that, he worked for "Newsweek" and the "Chicago Tribune". Rhodes's duties include shaping and editing the site's content, … - Robert K. Elder
Robert K. Elder is an American writer best known for his profiles, film reviews, technology pieces and investigative stories in the "Chicago Tribune", most notably his debunking of the Del Close skull myth. A Montana native, Elder got his start in journalism by interviewing Ken Kesey for his high school newspaper. The author encouraged Elder to attend his alma mater, the University of Oregon, which Elder did two years later. - Paul Salopek
Paul Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Salopek was raised in central Mexico. He has reported for the "Chicago Tribune" since 1996, writing about Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He worked for "National Geographic" from 1992-1995, visiting Chad, Sudan, Senegal, Niger, Mali, and Nigeria. The October 1995 cover story for "National Geographic" was Salopek's piece on Africa's mountain gorillas. - Lee Strobel
Lee Patrick Strobel, a former legal editor for the Chicago Tribune, is a Christian apologist and former teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical bestsellers "The Case for Christ", "The Case for Faith", and "The Case for a Creator". Strobel also hosted a television program called "Faith Under Fire" on PAX TV. His daughter, Alison, is also a Christian writer. - Mike Royko
Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 - April 29, 1997) was a longtime newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois. - Steve Stone
Steven Michael Stone (born July 14, 1947 in Euclid, Ohio) is a former American Major League Baseball player and current sportscaster. He also authored the 1999 book "Where's Harry?" with Barry Rozner of the Chicago Tribune, which was extremely popular, especially with Cub fans and Chicagoans. He was one of the best Jewish pitchers in major league history, 3rd career-wise in wins (107) and strikeouts (1,065), behind Ken Holtzman and Sandy Koufax, … - David Martin
David J. Martin (born March 23, 1950) is a Canadian humorist and newspaper columnist. His columns have appeared in many major North American newspapers including the "New York Times", the "Los Angeles Times", the "Washington Post", the "Globe and Mail" and the "Chicago Tribune", including at least one about Wikipedia. As of 2007, he lived in Ottawa, Ontario. - Robert R. McCormick
Robert Rutherford McCormick (July 30, 1880 - April 1, 1955) was a Chicago newspaper baron and owner of the "Chicago Tribune". His grandfather was "Tribune"-founder and former Chicago mayor Joseph Medill, and his great-uncle was the inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick. McCormick was born in Chicago. From 1889 through 1893, he lived with his parents in London where his father Robert Sanderson McCormick was a staff secretary to Robert Todd Lincoln. - Bob Greene
Bob Greene is an exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer specializing in fitness, metabolism, and weight loss. He's been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and appeared on dozens of national television programs. His first book, Make the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body-and a Better Life , the #1 New York Times bestseller he co-authored by Oprah Winfrey , was about how to live a healthier life, and his working with her in her lifelong battle against weight. - Pat Hughes
Virgil Patrick "Pat" Hughes (born May 27, 1955 in Tucson, Arizona) has been the play-by-play Voice of the Chicago Cubs, working for WGN radio, since 1996. In all of Hughes' time as a Cubs broadcaster, he has partnered with color commentator Ron Santo, former All-Star third baseman for the Cubs. Together, they are known as 'Pat and Ron' to Cubs fans. Prior to joining the Cubs broadcast booth, Hughes spent 12 years calling games for the Milwaukee Brewers, … - Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas was born in 1956 in Havana, Cuba, a city that she left six years later when she came to the United States with her parents after the Cuban revolution. She grew up in Michigan City, Indiana, and moved to Chicago in 1979. At the age of thirty-nine, Obejas returned to the island of her birth "for a brief visit and was seduced by a million things"(Shapiro 4). The Cuba of her imagination and experience recur throughout her writings. - Ali Abunimah
Ali Hasan Abunimah is a Palestinian-American, born of a mother made a refugee in 1948 from the village of Lifta now in Israel, and a father from the village of Battir in the West Bank, who co-founded Electronic Intifada, a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective. Abunimah has served as the Vice-President on the Board of Directors of the Arab American Action Network. - Tod Goldberg
Tod Goldberg (1971-) is an American author and journalist, best known for his novels "Fake Liar Cheat" (Pocket Books/MTV) and "Living Dead Girl" (Soho Press), and the short story collection "Simplify" (OV Books). He is the brother of novelist Lee Goldberg and authors Linda Woods and Karen Dinino, as well as the nephew of true crime writer Burl Barer. - Joseph Medill
Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 - March 16, 1899) is better known as the business manager and managing editor of the "Chicago Tribune" than as mayor of Chicago, although his term in office occurred during two of the most important years of the city's history as Chicago tried to rebuild in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire. Medill was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. - Salim Muwakkil
Salim Muwakkil is an American journalist based out of Chicago. He is a senior editor at "In These Times", and an op-ed columnist for the "Chicago Tribune". Muwakkil's writes on African American issues, Middle East politics, and US foreign policy. He is currently a Crime and Communities Media Fellow of the Open Society Institute. Muwakkil teaches a seminar on Race, Media, and Politics for the Urban Studies Program in Chicago, Illinois. - Rich Eisen
Rich Eisen (born June 24, 1969) is an American television journalist. He is married to ESPN on ABC college football sideline reporter Suzy Shuster. - Ed Hinton
Edward Talmage "Ed" Hinton (b. July 21 1948, Laurel, Mississippi) is one of the most well-known and respected motor racing sportswriters in the United States and around the world. Hinton graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970 and began working for the Orlando Sentinel covering the NASCAR racing circuit. Hinton moved to Atlanta, Georgia and married his current wife, Snow, in 1983. In the late 1980s, Hinton joined the new sports daily newspaper, … - Jack Ohman
Jack Ohman (b. September 1, 1960) is an American editorial cartoonist. He has been "The Oregonian"'s cartoonist since 1983 and his work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers by Tribune Media Services. Ohman first worked as a political aide for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) during his high school years in Minnesota. At age 17, Ohman worked at the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota. - Frank King
Frank King (April 9, 1883 - June 24, 1969) was an American cartoonist most famous for the comic strip "Gasoline Alley". - Michael Kilian
Michael Kilian (16 July 1939-26 October 2005) was a journalist and author. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Chicago and Westchester, New York. Kilian died on 26 October 2005 from illness and was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. In addition to being a long-time correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Washington, D.C., Kilian was an accomplished author of numerous books, including the "Harrison Raines Civil War" mysteries.
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