Chicago Reader says Solomon Lieberman replacing CEO and Publisher Tracy Baim
Solomon Lieberman will replace Tracy Baim as CEO and publisher of the Chicago Reader.
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Solomon Lieberman will replace Tracy Baim as CEO and publisher of the Chicago Reader.
She took over the alternative publication in 2018, overcoming a dispute with an owner to convert it to nonprofit ownership.
After a successful quest to convert the Chicago Reader to a nonprofit, Tracy Baim is stepping down as publisher of the alternative newspaper.
Now that the transition of the Chicago Reader to nonprofit ownership has been finalized under the Reader Institute for Community Journalism, there's a change in editorial leadership at the 50-year-old alternative publication.
The free biweekly, published since 1971, has completed a move from for-profit to nonprofit ownership.