Tracy Baim

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Tracy Baim
NationalityAmerican
EducationDrake University
Occupation(s)journalist, writer
Years active1984–present
Known for Windy City Times
MovementLGBT Rights

Tracy Baim is a Chicago-based LGBT journalist, editor, author, and filmmaker. She is also a former publisher of the Chicago Reader newspaper. [1]

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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. Following a debilitating public dispute between Baim and then-editor and the paper's then co-owner Leonard Goodman, during which ownership was transferred to a nonprofit, Baim resigned in 2022.

Awards and honors

Baim was also a finalist for a 2012 Lambda Literary Award [8] 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. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 3 Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame 1994.
  6. 1 2 Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice 2014a.
  7. American Institute of Architects.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Association of LGBTQ Journalists 2014.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Hieggelke 2020.
  10. HuffPost.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice 2014b.
  12. Baim & Keehan 2014.

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