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Charlie Johnson

Charlie Johnson spent most of the last 10 years at the Chicago Tribune, working first as a digital producer for national/world news and then as a Tribune homepage editor and highly unofficial Twitter bureau chief. He also wrote stories on Chicago and Tribune history, live-blogged major news events, including presidential elections, and later worked as a reporter on the Metro desk. He co-led the paper's union drive in 2017-2018. In May, he started classes as an Honors Scholar at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

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  1. Exit Interviews: Charlie Johnson

    “Those who labor behind the scenes—who often handle jobs of enormous consequence—their work goes literally unremarked upon.”

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    Part of an occasional series offering feedback for journalism as an industry, through observations from news nerds who have recently left the field and still love it.

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