Phil Rosenthal, the Chicago Tribune's media columnist, has been a working journalist since 17, when he talked his way into a regular freelance gig with the Waukegan News-Sun while still in high school.
As he earned his journalism degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rosenthal covered sports, spot news and media for The Capital Times in Madison, Wis. He spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Daily News, first as a sports writer, then a television critic and ultimately as a columnist whose work was nationally distributed by the New York Times News Service. He returned to his hometown and joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1996, serving as deputy sports editor, sports columnist and t...
As he earned his journalism degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rosenthal covered sports, spot news and media for The Capital Times in Madison, Wis. He spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Daily News, first as a sports writer, then a television critic and ultimately as a columnist whose work was nationally distributed by the New York Times News Service. He returned to his hometown and joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1996, serving as deputy sports editor, sports columnist and t...
Phil Rosenthal, the Chicago Tribune's media columnist, has been a working journalist since 17, when he talked his way into a regular freelance gig with the Waukegan News-Sun while still in high school.
As he earned his journalism degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rosenthal covered sports, spot news and media for The Capital Times in Madison, Wis. He spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Daily News, first as a sports writer, then a television critic and ultimately as a columnist whose work was nationally distributed by the New York Times News Service. He returned to his hometown and joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1996, serving as deputy sports editor, sports columnist and television critic. He moved to the Chicago Tribune in 2005.
Highlights of his career include modeling swimsuits for Sports Illustrated supermodel Vendela, getting a manicure from Lorena Bobbitt, smoking cigars with Jack Paar and introducing his mother to Johnny Carson.
Rosenthal is virtually certain no one actually reads biographies all the way through, and would congratulate you for making it this far.
An award-winning journalist, he once saved the life of one of his three brothers and was kicked off his high school newspaper. He was an extra in the Oscar-winning movie "Ordinary People" and, although it appears he wound up on the cutting-room floor, he did get paid and fed and can claim to be just three degrees from Kevin Bacon. Rosenthal is married and has two young children, who don't yet read his column but recognize his picture in the paper. They are not yet embarrassed to be related to him.
Rosenthal Field in north suburban Lake Bluff is named for Rosenthal's late father, a former youth baseball coach and elementary school board member, not him.
Phil Rosenthal's media column appears Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
As he earned his journalism degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rosenthal covered sports, spot news and media for The Capital Times in Madison, Wis. He spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Daily News, first as a sports writer, then a television critic and ultimately as a columnist whose work was nationally distributed by the New York Times News Service. He returned to his hometown and joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1996, serving as deputy sports editor, sports columnist and television critic. He moved to the Chicago Tribune in 2005.
Highlights of his career include modeling swimsuits for Sports Illustrated supermodel Vendela, getting a manicure from Lorena Bobbitt, smoking cigars with Jack Paar and introducing his mother to Johnny Carson.
Rosenthal is virtually certain no one actually reads biographies all the way through, and would congratulate you for making it this far.
An award-winning journalist, he once saved the life of one of his three brothers and was kicked off his high school newspaper. He was an extra in the Oscar-winning movie "Ordinary People" and, although it appears he wound up on the cutting-room floor, he did get paid and fed and can claim to be just three degrees from Kevin Bacon. Rosenthal is married and has two young children, who don't yet read his column but recognize his picture in the paper. They are not yet embarrassed to be related to him.
Rosenthal Field in north suburban Lake Bluff is named for Rosenthal's late father, a former youth baseball coach and elementary school board member, not him.
Phil Rosenthal's media column appears Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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CEO compensation list preoccupies us
Thanks to the 10-year, $275 million deal he signed in 2007, shortly after earning the third of his three American League MVP awards, the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez reportedly will make $30 million this baseball season.
There are plenty of other...Tags: Corporate Officers, Economy, Business and Finance, Motorola, Inc., Steve Jobs, Entertainment
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Status update: Phil Rosenthal's mind has wandered
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Accretive Health and the true cost of outsourcing
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Groupon grapples for control
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Great Scott! Author Turow rips Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit over e-book prices
Hoverboards and flying cars? An expedited justice system without lawyers? A Cubs World Series victory? We have a lot of work to do in three years if we're to live in the 2015 promised us in the late 1980s by "Back to the Future II."
The middle episode of...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Gaming, Book, Amazon.com Inc., Isaac Asimov
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Dick Clark a shrewd businessman as much as legendary showman
After more than half a century on national television, ushering music acts into the public eye and ringing in the new year for millions, Dick Clark was eulogized last week as a cultural giant first, a shrewd businessman second.
Clark, who died of a heart...Tags: Television, Economy, Business and Finance, Ryan Seacrest, Heart Attack, McDonald's
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Bill Clinton supports Mayor Rahm Emanuel's controversial infrastructure plan
The day before the Chicago City Council approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to encourage private investment to pay for public works projects, the controversial measure got an endorsement from a beneficiary of Emanuel's ability to raise money. "What the...
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Car technology on collision course with safety regulators
It wasn't me, and I won't say who it was — enough years have lapsed to expunge the record — but someone driving my beat-up old Chevy managed to lightly bump another car just hours after he or she got his or her first driver's license....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Transportation Industry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electronics, University of California, Berkeley
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'Jewtopia' to open N.B. Film Festival
Turn up the "klezmer" — that's Yiddish for music — the opening night of the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival is going to be quite the shindig. "Jewtopia," staring Ivan Sergei, Joel David Moore and Jennifer Love Hewitt, kicks off the 13th year...
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Coaching, adapting as much in play for businesses as sports teams
These days, when he puts on his suit and tie, he goes to work before a deafening throng of more than 20,000 paying customers, not to mention hundreds of thousands more following on TV and radio. His performance and that of those under him invite enough...Tags: National Hockey League, Joel Quenneville, Jay Cutler, Miami Heat, Chicago Blackhawks
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