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Tracy Baim | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Drake University |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, writer |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Known for | Windy City Times |
| Movement | LGBT 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]
Baim attained a journalism degree from Drake University in the field of news-editorialism in 1984. [2]
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]
Baim was also a finalist for a 2012 Lambda Literary Award [9] for Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers.
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