When Isaac Imaka was working at the Miami Herald as an Alfred Friendly Fellow in 2015, and when he returned to Uganda to work for the Daily Monitor, he often turned to Ellen Soeteber for advice, even after she left ...
By David Herbling “Quotes are like spices,” Julie Tatge told me as she gesticulated like a chef sprinkling a season on food. As she edited my story, Julie took time to advise me on how quotes should be carefully selected ...
By Tarun Shukla With President Barack Obama’s term ending next year, Chicago is abuzz with speculation: Will he return to live in the city that brought him into the political limelight? From Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side, the city’s ...
By Tarun Shukla In times when legacy newsroom firings are common, a new survey rating newspaper reporter as the worst job in the United States shouldn’t have surprised me. Yet it did. Like many, I didn’t join the profession thinking ...
It was a Tuesday morning like any other when I made my way to the Tribune Tower, having been attached at the Chicago Tribune for nearly a fortnight. I headed to my desk and did my usual morning ritual: skim ...
Replacement workers brought in to ease funeral home strike By Mugambi Mutegi Published in Chicago Tribune in July 2, 2013 Operations at Dignity Memorial Home were thrown into confusion Tuesday after funeral directors and drivers went on strike over ...
Chicago hires ad manager, seeks sponsors for bike-sharing program The Divvy bike-sharing program displayed its rides and map of 400 stations at Bike The Drive in May. (Nancy Stone/Tribune / June 21, 2013) By Mugambi Mutegi Published in Chicago Tribune in ...