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(Written for the Chicago Tribune’s house organ as the date of the newspaper’s 150th anniversary approached on June 10, 1997.) Over the last 150 years–as we’ve been hearing for at least the last 150 days–the Chicago Tribune has been able to maintain a remarkable duality of character.  Without betraying the […]

Birthdays can be about the future, too


December, 1996:  Christopher Harper visits chicago.tribune.com (complete with two dots) and discovers staffers who actually “cover stories, take pictures, operate video cameras, and create digital pages.” Doing It All  | American Journalism Review.

Doing It All  | American Journalism Review