13 Women Who Changed My Working Life

I grew up in old-school newsrooms full of irreverent, transgressive, colorful and off-color fun, and not a few caustic flaws. In recent years, though, I’ve been gobsmacked by stunning misogyny and “anti-woke” prejudice masquerading as managerial brio. 

10 Years At Patch With The Hardest Working Team In Local News

If this were easy, everyone would be doing it. Patch has come a long way in the last decade, and we're just getting started.

Michael Ferro To Deal His Tronc Stake For $208 Million

Ferro, the majority shareholder, is selling out to McCormick Media pending regulator approval. Sargent McCormick is part of investor group.

Roger Ailes Sex Claims, Possible Fox News Exit Stun GOP Convention-Goers

Republicans are gathered in Cleveland — where Ailes's career began. At 76, he could be cast out of the network he built as CEO.

Patch Winning Fans One Year After Launch

My friends and I make history as Illinois Patch celebrates one year in business.

 

Take This Job And Love It?

I started a new job recently. The first two days have been the best first two days of any job I’ve ever had.

Sinatra To Royko: 'I Punch You In The Mouth'

😂 "I don't understand why people don't spit in your eye three or four times a day." 

Journalist, Reinvent Thyself

The upheaval in the newspaper business is exposing business-model flaws and character flaws in those who are shepherding the papers to their graves. Despite the pain of the transformation, journalists will be reinvigorated by the change. Still, that doesn't mean newspapers are going to survive.