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Blair Kamin ended his 28-year run as the Chicago Tribune’s Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic with a Jan. 13, 2021 column that concluded: “Imagine Chicago without a full-time skyline watchdog. Schlock developers and hack architects would welcome the lack of scrutiny.”
The Dallas Morning News announced in January an effort to raise $2 million from the North Texas community over two years to support 10 journalism positions, including seven reporters. “The truth is pretty much in every community in the U.S. right now, the largest entity is the local TV station and newspaper, and those are usually for-profits,” said Jim Brady, the Knight Foundation’s vice president of journalism. Rick Edmonds, Poynter Institute media business analyst The Tribune retains editorial control, but Jones was receptive to Kamin’s suggestion of Keegan, a Chicago architect/writer as well as contributing editor to Architect magazine.
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