Tue. May 6, 2014
Chicago, IL -
Windy City Times publisher Tracy Baim was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago Headline Club, a mainstream journalism organization that honors the best in Chicago journalism at their annual Peter Lisagor Awards.
Veteran broadcast journalists Bill Kurtis and Karen Meyer were the other Lifetime Achievement Award recipients presented during the 37th annual awards ceremony on May 2.
"It is a great honor to be recognized by your peers in journalism," Baim told ChicagoPride.com. "I especially am pleased to have been given the award the same year as Bill Kurtis and Karen Meyer. For a very long time, LGBT journalism was seen as separate from mainstream journalism. This award confirms that this is no longer the case."
Baim received a Lisagor Award for her 2013 editorials about marriage equality in Illinois. Dozens of other awards were also presented to a wide range of Chicago-area online, print and broadcast media.
Last year, Windy City Times won two Peter Lisagor Awards. The first award was in the feature writing category, for the "Generation Halsted: LGBTQ Youth Series". The series was written primarily by Kate Sosin, Erica Demarest and Bill Healy, and designed by Kirk Williamson. The second WCT award went to Ross Forman for sports writing, for his feature "Esera Tuaolo: Coming back from darkness."
Windy City Times, now in its 29th year of publishing, is Chicago's only remaining LGBT newsweekly.
The Chicago Headline Club is the largest Society of Professional Journalists chapter in the country.
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