Dear editor:
To make sure that the article reached the largest possible audience, we decided to release “A Questionable Connection” to the Sun-Times, WMAQ TV, and WBEZ FM public radio on the same day that we started distributing the issue of Residents’ Journal, which is delivered free of charge and door-to-door to 35,000 low-income households around the city. Like the other mainstream media news outlets which covered “A Questionable Connection,” the Sun-Times credited our work in their front-page story that day.
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Since Residents’ Journal was launched in 1996, we have challenged these misconceptions with investigative reports and community news written by the residents themselves. “A Questionable Connection” was only one among our many reports which have changed the policies and practices of city departments while prompting follow-up coverage in the mainstream media. Readers can check out “A Questionable Connection” and our other work at www.wethepeoplemedia.org.
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