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Michael Miner says of newly appointed Chicago Defender editor (and Romenesko Letters regular) Roland S. Martin: “Whatever Martin’s managerial abilities turn out to be, he brings to the Defender one indisputable strength. He’s a fireball — and the Defender is a profoundly exhausted paper.” The nation’s oldest black daily paper turns 100 next May, and “it’s an anniversary the paper will find much easier to celebrate if it’s no longer an embarrassment,” says Miner. Martin promises it won’t be. “This newspaper is going to go into its second century of operations as a strong and vibrant newspaper. That will happen.” PLUS: More on the Chicago Sun-Times negotiations.
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