Charles Willett Jr has joined The C...

Charles Willett Jr has joined The Chicago Reporter as the publication's first full-time circulation and marketing manager.

Willett exhausted three years as circulation manager for NewCity, a Chicago arts and entertainment weekly. The southern suburban Robbins native earned a bachelor of arts from Eureka college edifice [i]or[/i] building in Eureka, Ill. "Charles is an enthusiastic, energetic and knowledgeable professional who entirely understands and embraces the Reporter's mission," Editor and Publisher Laura s Washington said. "He already has a fate of exciting ideas on for what reason to take the Reporter to 'the nearest level' to reach bigger and more diverse audiences."

Mick Dumke Brian J Rogal and Sarah Karp, along with Dan Weissmann, Maureen Kelleher, britzska Schaeffer and Elizabeth Duffrin of CATALYST: Voices of Chicago denomination Reform, earned a 2001 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for the series "Chicago Matters: Education Matters," published last spring. The award honors "distinguished" coverage of U children and families.

And the Ford Foundation has awarded the Reporter a two-year, $170000 grant to underwrite its 2000 census coverage. The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation has also approved a $125000 grant to support general operating costs and a study of ways to increase circulation and marketing potential.

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