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Barbara Brotman is a writer for the metropolitan news section's special projects team and the paper's Outdoors Adviser columnist.
Her 2006 stories chronicling the finals months of hospice care for a retired Chicago insurance executive won a distinguished writing award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, honorable mention in the National Press Club Awards and a Best Feature award from the Chicago Journalists Association.
She was a columnist and staff writer for the weekly Woman News section from February 1994 to August 2003. From September 2003 to June 2004, she held a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.
She joined the Tribune in February 1...
Her 2006 stories chronicling the finals months of hospice care for a retired Chicago insurance executive won a distinguished writing award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, honorable mention in the National Press Club Awards and a Best Feature award from the Chicago Journalists Association.
She was a columnist and staff writer for the weekly Woman News section from February 1994 to August 2003. From September 2003 to June 2004, she held a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.
She joined the Tribune in February 1...
Barbara Brotman is a writer for the metropolitan news section's special projects team and the paper's Outdoors Adviser columnist.
Her 2006 stories chronicling the finals months of hospice care for a retired Chicago insurance executive won a distinguished writing award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, honorable mention in the National Press Club Awards and a Best Feature award from the Chicago Journalists Association.
She was a columnist and staff writer for the weekly Woman News section from February 1994 to August 2003. From September 2003 to June 2004, she held a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.
She joined the Tribune in February 1978, writing for features sections and the Tempo section. After moving to the metropolitan news section as a general assignment reporter in 1982, she wrote the "About the Town" column for the Tribune from January 1984 until August 1989, for which she won a UPI International Award for Illinois Newspapers for Column Writing and a Peter Lisagor Award for column writing, given by Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists. She then covered the abortion issue from both a local and national perspective. In April 1990 she rejoined the Tempo staff as a feature writer.
She received honorable mention in 2002 from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, and is also a past recipient of the Chicago Tribune's award for Outstanding Professional Performance, for her evocative writing style and ability to capture the mood and feel of Chicago life and people.
Brotman was born in New York and graduated from Queens College. Brotman, her husband, Chicago Tribune photographer Chuck Berman, and their two daughters live in Oak Park, Ill.
Her 2006 stories chronicling the finals months of hospice care for a retired Chicago insurance executive won a distinguished writing award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, honorable mention in the National Press Club Awards and a Best Feature award from the Chicago Journalists Association.
She was a columnist and staff writer for the weekly Woman News section from February 1994 to August 2003. From September 2003 to June 2004, she held a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.
She joined the Tribune in February 1978, writing for features sections and the Tempo section. After moving to the metropolitan news section as a general assignment reporter in 1982, she wrote the "About the Town" column for the Tribune from January 1984 until August 1989, for which she won a UPI International Award for Illinois Newspapers for Column Writing and a Peter Lisagor Award for column writing, given by Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists. She then covered the abortion issue from both a local and national perspective. In April 1990 she rejoined the Tempo staff as a feature writer.
She received honorable mention in 2002 from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, and is also a past recipient of the Chicago Tribune's award for Outstanding Professional Performance, for her evocative writing style and ability to capture the mood and feel of Chicago life and people.
Brotman was born in New York and graduated from Queens College. Brotman, her husband, Chicago Tribune photographer Chuck Berman, and their two daughters live in Oak Park, Ill.
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Finding something new in a well-reported story
Covering a well-covered story like Maggie Daley’s death is particularly challenging. When I went to the funeral Monday and started talking to mourners, I found that many of them had lovely things to say about Mrs. Daley, but they were things that...Tags: Facebook, Maggie Daley
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Nature: Find it along the city's riverwalk
Sure, it's a nice place for outdoor dining. But is the still-evolving pedestrian walkway along the Chicago River also a legitimate outdoors nature experience?
In a way. It's not a hiking trail, unless your hiking trails feature a spa offering chair and...Tags: Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, Richard M. Daley, Wildflowers, Natural Resources, Personal Service
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Ethical carnivores: An urbanite aims for dinner
For me, it was all about ethical meat.
For years I'd been searching for meat I could feel OK about — in terms of the environment, health and animal welfare.
But I never imagined my quest for the most politically correct meat could end with what...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Human Interest, Rentals, Texas, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Thin Mint business calls for a thick skin
Change of SubjectFrom the archives, an April 3, 2002 column by Barbara Brotman. Well, it's all over except for the eating, although judging by the crumbs on my colleagues' desks, that's over, too. But after a particularly grueling experience of helping my...... -
Ya Gotta...
Change of SubjectHere are the Ya Gottas from today’s Prickly Pair Podcast. Phil Rosenthal -- MediaBurn.org --- "a collection of over 6,000 independent, non-corporate tapes that reflect cultural, political and social reality as seen by independent producers, from 1969 to... -
Let your wildflower appreciation bloom
Happy Earth Day, everybody.
Today is the 40th annual love-your-planet observation, and not to get all baby boomer nostalgic on you, but I worked the first one. OK, it's not Woodstock, but surely I should get some tree-hugger street cred for staffing a...Tags: Facebook, Ryerson Incorporated, Chicago Botanic Garden, Earth Day, Morton Arboretum
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Blame it on brain freeze
Tribune reporterThere is a certain kind of person who comes upon an evening when falling snow is creating near-blizzard conditions, more than 600 flights have been canceled at O'Hare and the side streets are being reduced to two tire tracks through the snow, and thinks:...Tags: Alcoholic Beverages, Air Transportation Delays, Restaurants, Vehicles, Lincoln
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White water, knuckles in Illinois
Tribune staff reporterMy adventurous group of women friends paddled our raft down the river as swallows swooped low across the water. We heard frogs croak at remarkably high volumes. Then we heard something else: Wildcat Rapids, dead ahead.We watched as another raft went...Tags: Canoeing and Kayaking, Gardens and Parks, State Parks, Backpacks, Avalanches and Landslides
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Best of Palos: Locals will moan, but our maps point the way to 3 great hikes
Tribune staff reporterAre you flummoxed by the Palos region? Maybe you have driven south on Mannheim Road and wondered who stole a piece of Minnesota and its lakes and plunked it down around the Calumet-Sag Channel.Maybe you have wanted to try hiking or biking in the...Tags: Transportation, Cranberries, Wetlands, Travel, Willow Springs
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Rare plants thrive in North Shore ravines
Tribune staff reporterSearching for a beautiful and fragile natural habitat for a nice eco-tourism jaunt? If you can't make it to a rain forest, consider the ravines of the North Shore. A defining geological feature of the north suburban lakefront, the ravines do far more...Tags: Ecosystems, Lake County (Michigan), Hennepin County, Lake County (Illinois), Wildflowers
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