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Tracy Baim
NationalityAmerican
EducationDrake University
Occupation(s)journalist, writer
Years active1984–present
Known forWindy City Times
MovementLGBT Rights
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Tracy Baim is a Chicago-based LGBT journalist, editor, author, and filmmaker. She is also a former publisher of the Chicago Reader newspaper.[1]

Biography

Baim attained a journalism degree from Drake University in the field of news-editorialism in 1984.[2]

Career

Windy City Times was founded in 1985 by Baim and others, who started Sentury Publications to publish the paper.[3][4] where she is the publisher and executive editor.

Baim came to the Chicago Reader in 2018 and planned to leave by the end of 2022.[5]

Awards and honors

Baim was also a finalist for a 2012 Lambda Literary Award[9] for Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers.

Works

Journalism

Books

Films

Other projects

References

Notes

  1. ^ Reader, Chicago (2022-08-05). "[PRESS RELEASE] Baim stepping down as Reader publisher end of 2022". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  2. ^ "Tracy Baim: a gay-media torchbearer". Chicago Tribune. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  3. ^ Barnhurst, Kevin G. (2007). Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents. New York City: Peter Lang. pp. 143–147. ISBN 978-0-8204-9533-0.
  4. ^ "The 50 Most Powerful Women in Chicago Tracy Baim". Chicago Magazine. April 13, 2020.
  5. ^ Roeder, David (August 5, 2022). "Tracy Baim to leave the Chicago Reader by year-end". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame 1994.
  7. ^ a b Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice & 2014-05-17.
  8. ^ American Institute of Architects.
  9. ^ a b c Association of LGBTQ Journalists 2021.
  10. ^ Chicago Headline Club 2013.
  11. ^ Association of LGBTQ Journalists 2014.
  12. ^ Hieggelke 2014.
  13. ^ HuffPost.
  14. ^ a b c Hieggelke 2020.
  15. ^ a b Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice 2014.
  16. ^ Baim 2014.
  17. ^ "Tracy Baim: a gay-media torchbearer". Chicago Tribune. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  18. ^ "Tracy Baim: a gay-media torchbearer". Chicago Tribune. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  19. ^ a b c Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice 2014.

Citations

External links

Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame
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