In a piece focusing primarily on his support for a statewide ballot initiative requiring parental notification prior to an abortion, the Times also tells us this about the owner of the San Diego Reader: His friends say he's a "a cerebral man who tilts libertarian but is defined mostly by his deep religious beliefs. He attends Mass daily and counts priests among his close friends. He once took an extended leave from his newspaper to work with a missionary group on Los Angeles' skid row." And, "(d)espite his substantial wealth," Holman (pictured) -- who served with the Navy in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart -- "takes the bus to work, eats sack lunches and lives modestly."
Ken Mayer, a freelance critic for The Reader in Omaha, Neb., was one of 25 critics, editors and reporters chosen as fellows in the second annual National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera. The institute, which offers intensive training to arts journalists working outside the country's major media markets, will take place at Columbia University in New York City from October 16-27.
In her collection of essays, "She's Got Next," Melissa King recalls the Reader as "the forefront of the possibility trade." As this review explains, King's stint in Chicago "launched her on a yearslong search for life's meaning within the confines of a basketball court."
San Diego Reader senior editor Judith Moore's book, "Fat Girl," got the full-page treatment in last week's New York Times Book Review. Jane Stern writes that Moore's book "just might be the Stonewall for a slew of oversize people who do not fit the template of what every ostensible expert on beauty, health and nutrition tells us we should strive to be," and judges it "brilliant and angry and unsettling."
Chicago Reader staff writer Steve Bogira's book, "Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse," was published this month by Alfred A. Knopf. By detailing the happenings at Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse over the course of one calendar year, the book shows how the war on drugs is overloading the justice system and threatening the integrity of due process. A review in The Economist calls it "a brilliant piece of journalism and a genuine eye-opener" that "provides the context, both locally and nationally, for understanding what is going on."
The Chicago Reader's 2004 circulation of 119,486 was down from 129,437 in 2003, reports Chicago Business. According to the report, Reader executives attribute the dip to chain retailers limiting or removing papers from their stores in an attempt to reduce clutter, and to new restrictions on the size of sidewalk news boxes.
Competition in the Windy City stiffened today with the entrance of the weekly listings magazine into an already-crowded marketplace. The Daily Herald reports: "Critics at rival publications point out that Chicagoans are accustomed to getting their entertainment listings and coverage for less than Time Out Chicago's price tag, $2.50 an issue." Chicago Reader Editor Alison True tells the paper that Time Out will be "perfect for people who want second-rate listings and want to pay for them."
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