A long-time Managing Editor at The Chicago Tribune and later the Los Angeles Times, he’s got ink in his veins. He doesn’t go back as far in Chicago journalism as Ben Hecht, but he might as well cuz he’s right out of “The Front Page”. Returning home, he joined the Des Moines Register after his service and then on to The Chicago Tribune. Jim tells me, “We were starting to get some traction and then COVID hit, and everybody went to hell.”Is local journalism dead? “Well it’s certainly on life support.”Can local journalism survive as a self-sustaining entity and not rely on the not-for-profit platform, continually hitting up donors?

Source: New York Times January 18, 2023 00:20 UTC