Author Archives: cgbooker

I write this post from my soon-to-be new home in Doha, Qatar.  I recently left my job with the Chicago Tribune to join Northwestern University’s Doha campus.  I will be teaching the inaugural class of the Medill School of Journalism … Continue reading →

Happy New Year. Our government, economy & and landscape is still frozen here in Chicago, but 2009 seems to be moving forward. This past spring I spent a week in Mumbai, India as part of a brief fellowship with Reuters … Continue reading →

Between the bankruptcy filing of my daytime employer (the Tribune Media Company) and the brief incarceration of the Governor of Illinois, the winter has been “interesting.” Thankfully, I have had a number of assignments that have sufficiently distracted me. US … Continue reading →