Entertainment Columns
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Feder: Sun-Times names Rachel Hinton chief political reporterAug 26, 2020 1:00 am - Just three years after joining the Sun-Times as an intern straight out of DePaul University, Rachel Hinton has been promoted to chief political reporter, Robert Feder wr...
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Feder: WGN America's 'News Nation' gets ready to make primetime historyAug 25, 2020 1:00 am - One week from tonight, television history will be made in Chicago. Straight up at 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 1, viewers across the country will get their first look at "N...
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Feder: Meagan Fitzgerald joins NBC News Chicago bureau as correspondentAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Meagan Fitzgerald, weekend morning news anchor at the NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C., has been named Chicago-based correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, Robert Fe...
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Feder: Sun-Times poised for 'limited number' of layoffsAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - They're bracing for layoffs at the Sun-Times following an all-staff virtual meeting Friday with CEO Nykia Wright, Robert Feder writes. An analysis of the company's work...
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Constable: A year of hitching rides and carnival jobs in search of astounding storiesAug 22, 2020 1:00 am - Barrington writer sees a carnival of lives
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Jim O'Donnell: Brennaman up against business and brand maintenanceAug 21, 2020 1:00 am - THE CUBS AND THE REDS are two of the oldest franchises in Major League Baseball. Either could have had President Ulysses S. Grant or the inimitable Horace Greeley throw ...
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Feder: WGN hires main news anchor from Nexstar's Indianapolis stationAug 20, 2020 1:00 am - "Chicago's Very Own" WGN-Channel 9 has reached out to its company's station in Indianapolis to hire a new co-anchor for its nightly newscasts, Robert Feder writes. Ray C...
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Another thing HBO Max has that Netflix doesn't: Classic movies from yesteryearAug 19, 2020 11:00 pm - A constant complaint about Netflix has been its lack of classic movies. Finding anything older than 1970 seems darn near impossible. Hulu and Amazon aren't much better, ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Jim Thompson got to write the sad legacy of Otto KernerAug 19, 2020 1:00 am - WHEN JIM THOMPSON DIED last weekend, he left behind loving family, friends and at least one asterisk. That asterisk would belong to the legacy of Otto Kerner, like Thomp...
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Feder: Anchorman Stefan Holt coming back home to NBC 5Aug 19, 2020 1:00 am - After four years at WNBC in New York, Stefan Holt is moving back home to Chicago and returning to WMAQ-Channel 5 as a Monday-through-Friday main news anchor, the NBC-own...