Community Renewal Society

Former Publisher Laura Washington recently rejoined the staff of The Chicago Reporter to lead the search for a new publisher. She will serve as interim publisher and work with staff to oversee the work of the publication. Laura is a 17-year veteran of the Reporter. Since her departure in 2002, she has been an ongoing supporter of the Reporter’s work. She is currently a Chicago Sun-Timescolumnist, political analyst for ABC 7-Chicago and contributing editor for In These Times.

Washington is leading a search committee of internal and external stakeholders to make the new hire.

María Inés Zamudio joined The Chicago Reporter staff to cover immigration, labor and health in 2011. Before joining the Reporter, Zamudio spent three years in California working for daily newspapers.  She’s a bilingual reporter and blogger with experience producing video and radio stories. She also was part of the Knight Digital Media Foundation’s 2011 Independent Journalist Fellowship and the 2010 Education Writers Association’s Research and Statistics Fellowship. Zamudio graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007.

After receiving both her master's and bachelor's degrees from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Christine joined the staff of Catalyst Chicago, in 2002. She led the redesign of the website and helped launch Catalyst's new look in March 2004. 

Rui Kaneya is interim editor at The Chicago Reporter. Kaneya was a recipient of the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Minority Fellowship in Urban Journalism in 1998 and specializes in reporting on immigration issues.

Angela Caputo joined The Chicago Reporter staff to cover housing and criminal justice issues in 2010. Before joining the Reporter, Caputo worked at Progress Illinois, a political news blog, where she was a recipient of the Studs Terkel Award in 2010.

Prior to Progress Illinois, she worked for the Sun-Times News Group producing award-winning investigative pieces for the Daily Southtown and Lerner Newspapers. She is the recipient of the Salute to Excellence Award by the National Association of Black Journalists and Peter Lisagor awards for Best In-depth and Best Education reporting. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2004 with a master's degree in journalism.