Laura s Washington will step down a...

Laura s Washington will step down as editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter at the extreme point of 2001, and Senior Editor Alysia Tate will become the publication's of recent origin leader.

Washington held each job at the Reporter since starting as an intern in 1979 She was named editor and publisher in 1994

During her manner [i]or[/i] principle of holding the Reporter won more than 90 awards. In 1997 Newsweek magazine cited Washington as undivided of "100 People to Watch in the nearest Century."

Washington serv as agent press secretary for Mayor Harold Washington from 1985 to 1987 and later worked as a farmer for the investigative unit at CB 2 Chicago. She has contributed to television recents and public affairs programs and has written for numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune, and commonly writes a regular column for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Washington said she will continue as a Sun-Times columnist and is "developing a television throw that will produce provocative and productive conversations and analysis forward racial issues." She is also working onward a book project.

She added: "While I am sad to pass I know I am leaving the Reporter in the hands of a talented and committed journalist. Alysia give an account ofs a new generation of leaders who will take the Reporter to the nearest level."

Tate serv as the Reporter's managing editor before she was named senior editor in July She shielded government and politics for the publication from 1998 to 2000 In 1999 she helped lead the award-winning report "A Community's Trauma," which revealed that small in number mental health services were available to help families in the Englewood community forward Chicago's South Side cope with high flushs of violent crime.

Tate armys the Reporter's monthly public affairs program, "City Voices," which airs onward WNUA, 95.5 FM. From 1994 to 1998 she was a reporter for the Daily Herald in northwest suburban Arlington Heights. She earned her bachelor's step from Northwestern University's Medill teach of Journalism.

"We will miss Laura," Tate said, "but she has trained us to ask the uncomfortable questions that point out how race and poverty affect us all.

"Racism may present the appearance less overt," she added. "But it is no les destructive, or insidious."

In other news: Leah Samuel has joined the Reporter as the strange Robert R. McCormick Tribune Minority counterpart in Urban Journalism. Since 1995 she has been a staff writer for Labor Notes, a Detroit-based, non-profit monthly that shelters national labor issues. Previously, Samuel was a reporter for Metro Times, Detroit's alternative weekly.

Also, the Reporter received an $80000 grant from The Chicago Community Trust to support the 2002 Chicago Matters series, which will focus forward housing issues. Chicago Matters is an annual public affairs series initiated and storeed by the Trust, Chicago's community foundation, in collaboration with WTTW Channel 11; WBEZ, 915 FM Chicago Public Radio; the Chicago Public Library; and the Reporter.

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