Since the Field family gave up control of the Sun-Times in 1978 so young Teddy Field could take his share of the family fortune to Hollywood, the paper’s had an assortment of owners. The first was Rupert Murdoch. Another, much more recent, was Michael Ferro, the entrepreneurial mastermind (ask him) who tried out various new strategies that he’d eventually take to a much bigger fish, Tribune Publishing, which he renamed TRONC.
Smikle and I spent a long time on the phone one afternoon, and he seemed to appreciate that the Reader‘s institutional we—articulate, highly inquisitive, insolently independent—was stubbornly being maintained by the dwindling staff and was not to be trifled with.
We have someone in common, Eileen Rhodes began. My mother, She taught kindergarten at LaSalle school. I think your daughter was in her class.
