The Beachwood Reporter

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url = [http://www.beachwoodreporter.com beachwoodreporter.com]
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type = News / Criticism
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owner = The Beachwood Media Company
author = Steve Rhodes
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The Beachwood Reporter is a Chicago-based Web publication that focuses on cultural criticism and critiques of Chicago's news outlets. It launched on February 27, 2006.

"The Beachwood Reporter's" most regularly updated feature is currently "The Papers," a column updated five days a week in which founder and editor Steve Rhodes comments on the coverage in local media outlets, especially the "Chicago Tribune" (one of Rhodes' former employers) and the "Chicago Sun-Times". It currently dominates the site's main page. On Saturdays, "The Weekend Desk Report," a humorous roundup of the week's news, runs on the main page.

The site's other sections are currently: Music, TV, Politics, Sports, Books, and People, Places and Things. So far, the site has avoided traditional reporting and straight-up reviews in favor of quirky but journalistically serious angles.

Early in its run, the "Reporter" attracted attention from media professionals in Chicago and beyond. "Chicago Tribune" blogger/columnists Steve Johnson and Eric Zorn, "The Chicago Reader" media critic Michael Miner and "Reader" blogger Harold Henderson have all name-checked the site, and media blogger Jim Romenesko linked to it from his Poynter Institute media news page.

Before starting the "Reporter", Rhodes was a reporter for "Chicago" magazine and wrote "Press Box," a media column on the magazine's Web site. Before that, he worked for "Newsweek" and the "Chicago Tribune".