The Beachwood Reporter

16/01/2023

Rhodes Resume 2023.

Creative journalist with tons of experience (Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, Chicago magazine) including the visionary Chicago-centric news and culture review, The …

11/01/2023

Tweaked my LinkedIn page.

I'm available for work:

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16/12/2022

So while I have accounts on Post (yuck) and WT Social (yay), I guess I'll settle in on Mastodon (aka The Elephant) because that's where everyone else seems to be going. I hate going along the crowd, because they're wrong, we should support WT Social, but I have to go where the people I criticize go, as well as my followers. So meet me at the Elephant!

25 Posts, 116 Following, 85 Followers · Editor & Publisher of The Beachwood Reporter, the world's wittiest Chicago-centric news and culture review. Previously: Minnesota Daily, Lakeland Ledger, Waterloo Courier, Media Management Center, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek (before it was nuts), Chicago Magazi...

14/12/2022

I forgot how awful Facebook is at distribution if I don't pay to boost posts, which is the same system Elon Musk is bringing to Twitter.

So today I'll start posting to Mastodon as my Twitter alternative & see how it goes, but frankly I'm leaning toward WT Social as my new alternative.

Me at Mastodon: https://newsie.social/

Me at WT Social: https://wt.social/u/steve-rhodes

Welcome to the user profile of Steve Rhodes. A WT.Social community member.

13/12/2022

During an October bargaining session, deputy managing editor Cliff Levy arrived before the Times’ company lawyers from Proskauer and lavished praise on reporter and bargaining committee member Frances Robles for her coverage of Hurricane Ian, an apparent attempt at forging coziness, a person familiar with the matter told Confider.

While Robles was congenial in thanking him, she pulled no punches in expressing her frustration to Levy during a Nov. 15 bargaining.

“Every single time communication goes out to the staff, there is info that is demonstrably untrue,” Robles said, according to the notes of the meeting. “Cliff, what the [Times] has done to your reputation breaks my heart. And it should break your heart. I feel really bad that these negotiations have turned a man who built his career on trust into a liar.”

The signs for last week’s dramatic culmination were apparent over the last few months.

13/12/2022

"Royko declined to be interviewed and did not answer questions about if he was backing the duo challenging Moreno’s candidacy. He also did not answer questions about Ramirez’s challenge to his petitions."

Two neighbors of candidate Sam Royko are challenging Moreno's bid for office in part because of his criminal history, while a longtime backer of the former alderperson also is trying to get Royko tossed from the race.

13/12/2022

"Amazon benefits from local poverty through exploitative subcontracts."

Amazon benefits from local poverty through exploitative subcontracts, experts say.

13/12/2022

"Notably, in 2020, RinkWatch released a report showing that the number of quality skating days had declined in all of the Original Six NHL cities (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, Toronto, and New York)."

A citizen science program called RinkWatch encourages backyard rink makers to submit data on ice and weather conditions.

13/12/2022

Fame, journalism, McCartney.

It was a bad move, probably the worst thing he could have done at the moment. Paul McCartney, the most publicity-savvy of the Beatles, knew that the instant he hurled a bucket of kitchen scraps at …

13/12/2022

"Don't just run on what you believe. Cynically position yourself in such a way in which we can win. Here's the formula."

13/12/2022

OK, but with all that he only lost by 5 points?

13/12/2022

The state of Arizona has 7.3 million people, which is about 2 million people less than the Chicago metro area.

13/12/2022

Here's the Bankman-Fried indictment.

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13/12/2022

"Meadows’ exchanges shed new light on the extent of congressional involvement in Trump’s efforts to spread baseless conspiracy theories about his defeat and his attempts to reverse it.

"The messages document the role members played in the campaign to subvert the election as it was conceived, built, and reached its violent climax on Jan. 6, 2021.

"The texts are rife with links to far-right websites, questionable legal theories, violent rhetoric, and advocacy for authoritarian power grabs."

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at...

03/05/2022

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04/02/2022

Featuring Chicago's Shana Wills and her REACH organization.

Organizations around the world are helping refugees feel welcome via wilderness immersions—and with a record number of displaced people, this movement couldn’t come at a better time

31/01/2022

If you don't want to watch the whole two-hour show, you can watch the trailer for my best line. https://youtu.be/z_Gr6qXt_zo

This is the story of my family and it’s available Saturday Jan 29th on the Reelz network

29/01/2022

I'll be making an appearance on this show tonight.

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