Column: When you come to Chicago, the news will teach you what you need to know – Chicago Sun-Times

Kwame Opam now deputy managing editor for news at the Sun-Times and and previously the strategy and operations deputy for the breaking news teams at The New York Times: "I’ve been inculcated in the profession’s articles of faith. believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, telling truth to power, and finding beauty and relief in a good yarn.... I’m lucky. Seriously, I can’t tell you how lucky I am. I’m up to my ears in good writing about Chicago and surrounded by journalists committed to telling its story every day.
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Mary Juana
4 months ago

The SlumTimes? My parakeet refuses to allow this rag to line the bottom of his birdcsge.

GM
4 months ago

As the great Margaret Thatcher once allegedly said:

“Someone is joking…”

Where's Mine???
4 months ago
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