Media
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Feder: 'Consultant' Bill Shine casts Fox shadow over 'NewsNation'Feb 08, 2021 12:00 am - After two decades as a senior executive at Fox News and a protégé of chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, Bill Shine was fired in 2017 for his role in enabling the sexual haras...
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Jim O'Donnell: Will the NFL push Patrick Mahomes as its Michael Jordan?Feb 05, 2021 12:00 am - A BILLION DOLLAR ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS founded by bookmakers and vagabond jocks will once again rule the American pop cultural skies Sunday. Pandemic be damned, Super B...
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Feder: 'Roe & Roeper' reunite to launch podcast on pop culture, current eventsFeb 04, 2021 12:00 am - Chicago media mainstays Roe Conn and Richard Roeper, who've been radio partners — on and off — since they first teamed up at WLS 890-AM in 2010, are back together again,...
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Jim O'Donnell: Bruce Arians is another one the McCaskey Bears let get awayFeb 03, 2021 12:00 am - ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS about being a Bears fan is that you seldom have to budget for blue-and-orange Super Bowl party favors. History says once every 20 years or so and...
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Feder: News director Sandy Pudar bails out of 'NewsNation'Feb 03, 2021 12:00 am - Just weeks before the planned expansion of "NewsNation," the Chicago-based cable news operation on WGN America suddenly finds itself without a news director, Robert Fede...
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Feder: Fox News passes off radio host Amy Jacobson as merely 'Chicago parent'Feb 02, 2021 12:00 am - Twice in the past three days Amy Jacobson appeared on the Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends" to comment on the dispute over reopening Chicago Public Schools for in-pe...
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Feder: Irika Sargent 'excited to be back' as CBS 2 anchor todayFeb 01, 2021 12:00 am - It's back to work today for new mom Irika Sargent, who returns to CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 as Monday-through-Friday news anchor alongside Brad Edwards, Robert Feder writ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Frisk, Whisler helped Travelers blaze lost local CBA trailJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - IN HIS 50 YEARS SHEPHERDING the sports department of The Daily Herald, Bob Frisk assigned himself to be the primary reporter on a pro sports beat only once. That rarity ...
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Feder: 'Hungry Hound' Steve Dolinsky leaving ABC 7's eat beatJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - Steve Dolinsky, the award-winning food critic who's been covering the eat beat with gusto for more than 25 years in Chicago, is stepping down as the "Hungry Hound" at AB...
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Feder: Rock critic Greg Kot to bring 'great music writing' to The Coda CollectionJan 28, 2021 12:00 am - One year after stepping down as the nationally renowned music critic at the Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot is about to help launch an ambitious new multimedia startup billed ...