October 28, 2009

Jim Warren '74, new publisher of the Chicago Reader

Jim Warren ‘74, who formerly served as managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, was named the publisher of Chicago Reader on Tuesday.

Warren’s appointment is noted in a post on the Reader’s blog titled “The Reader’s New Publisher Is an Edit Guy”:

Warren has been a newspaperman since he graduated from Amherst in the mid-70s; he moved to the Tribune from the Sun-Times in 1984, covered labor, law, and media, and was a surprise choice to edit the old Tempo feature section, where writers told me he was the best editor they’d ever had. In 1993 editor Howard Tyner sent him to Washington to work the same magic there. Warren quickly made a name for himself in the capital by writing a Sunday column in which he mocked the city’s media stars by name for their preoccupation with self-promotion and fat personal-appearance fees.

Brian Meacham '97 | October 28, 2009 11:38 AM | Alumni

Name:

Email Address:

URL:
Remember Me? YesNo

Comments:

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.amerst.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/370

Select --- Administration Alumni Amherstiana Athletics Campus Faculty History Publications Student Life Town --- Complete Archives