Results tagged “marcusgilmer”

     

Happy Halloween! Have you been wondering how your favorite politicians, Chicagoist editors and, um, Richard Marxes are going to dress this year? Eyewitness News Chicagoist has the scoop!

It was only a matter of time before someone gave the remix treatment to Marcus' temper tantrum triggered by squirrels getting at the wires and bringing down our publishing platform. Since I have to deal with his outburts I'd like to thank the remix creator for at least giving me something to slip into DJ sets and make all the hassle worthwhile.

A little known fact is that I'm the one that often has to talk Marcus down off the ledge when our network goes down, or stories get screwed up, or he pours too much milk on his cereal "making it all soggy so [he] can't eat it now!" I know: me, the voice of reason? Scary. Anyway, I thought I'd share some video of how Marcus reacted earlier today upon getting some distressing news so you can see what I have to work with sometimes...

     

Chicago's journalism elite gathered together Thursday afternoon for yet another group therapy session, this time bringing Carl Bernstein and our beloved editor-in-chief, Marcus Gilmer, into the mix. Covering a sweeping range of topics, the central theme was the future of the news industry. Conclusion? Doom. Oh, and there's no agreeing on life-saving measures. It wasn't that we didn't have the most brilliant minds of the old guard in the conference room at the Newberry Library for the IFC's Make Media Matter series - Bernstein was joined by editors Gerould Kern (Chicago Tribune), Donald Hayner (Chicago Sun-Times), Tran Ha (RedEye) WBBM-TV news director Jeff Kiernan, columnist/editor/host Carol Marin and WVON's Cliff Kelley - it's just that the old guard doesn't know what's going to happen and the new guard, represented only by Marcus and Ha, can't predict the future of their industry.