[Chicago] local media

[Scott Nelson]

Here's my suggestions (some of which have already been mentioned)

Crains Chicago Business, a highly respected Chicago business publication.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/

Midwest business news website site.  Formerly ePrairie.com, I believe.
http://MidwestBusiness.com

The Chicago Reader is the free, artsy Chicago paper you find in
coffeehouses, etc.  A long legacy in Chicago.  I think it might be
more focused on the city, don't know if it goes into the 'burbs.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/

RedEye is related to the Chicago Trib.  It is a free daily newspaper.
I see it in the city and surrounding area a lot.  It attempts to be
very young and urban.
http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/

Sorry, no personal contacts at any of these.

Its not a media outlet, but in addition to colleges, etc,. you might
want to contact the IGDA-Chicago (Chicago chapter of the International
Game Developers Association).  I know some of the member companies use
Python to help make video games.
http://www.igda.org/chicago/

Good luck!

-Scott

On 1/23/08, Catherine Devlin <catherine.devlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear ChiPy folks,
>
> As your PyCon publicity coordinator, allow me to nag you once more for
> help with making Chicago's PyCon monumentally successful.  I need your
> help in finding -
>
> Local and regional industry and business publications.  Here in
> Dayton, we've got a monthly newsletter called "Technology First" that
> covers the local IT industry.  If Dayton's got one, Chicago's GOT to
> have one.  Please point me to it... or them!
>
> How about those artsy freebie magazines that you always pick up in
> coffeehouses?  They may be interested in the "tie-dyed free-love open
> source movement conquers the world" angle of Python, and thus PyCon's
> presence as worthy news.  Then we can suck some local artsy types into
> PyCon, and not have such a crummy time getting PyCon artwork made next
> year.  :)  So point me to those, as well.
>
> Where else?  What am I missing, media-wise?  (There will be a whole
> separate push to promote PyCon in the colleges, etc. nearby... I'll
> ask you about that shortly, too.)
>
> Finally - this is a biggie - if anybody has any *personal* contacts
> with anybody in one of those publications, or any other local media
> outlet (TV, Chicago Tribune, etc.), please let me know!
>
> --
> - Catherine
> http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
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