Tal Rosenberg

Wow, a 2025 study found you could connect Craigslist entering a city with a decline in local newspaper staffing, leading to a decline in politics coverage, which in turn led to a decline in readership, which they connect to more partisan voting and extreme candidates.

@sonik0909 Do you enjoy spending time this way? Engaging with people you’ve never met for a debate that won’t change your mind? If you died tomorrow, would you have considered this a good use of your time on earth?

@talrosenberg Better for whom? Plenty of the people placing ads on Craigslist are non-wealthy individuals or small organizations. It should cost them more to get their message out to fewer people?

I agree. Please give all your money back to the alt-weeklies whose business models you single-handedly destroyed.

@sonik0909 A better world

@talrosenberg Oh please. I WORK in media. But if Craig hadn't done it, someone else would've. In what world were advertisers going to continue paying big bucks for a print ad limited to the newspaper's circulation when they could pay less or nothing for an online item viewed much more widely?

I guess now if you post something and it gets any reach you can expect a dozen losers with 200 followers to desperately reply with strawman bullshit

Nine ways to make Chicago more kid friendly, per @talrosenberg chicagomag.com/chicago-magazi…

If anyone could use a drink, it’s a new parent. Enter Rockwell’s Neighborhood Grill: @talrosenberg's favorite bar for babies chicagomag.com/chicago-magazi…

We'll Never Stop Living This Way: A Ghostly International Catalogue (GI-500) - the first monograph of Ghostly's 25+ years of music and art. Published by @hatandbeardbks Designed by @practise 484 page mirror-coated hardcover Pre-order at link in bio for Nov 21 delivery

Here’s a playlist I made of all the OG samples on Resurrection available on streaming. Nowadays I probably listen to this even more than the album itself. open.spotify.com/playlist/6DusE…

For Pitchfork’s Sunday Review I wrote about Common’s Resurrection. I love the way I do it can’t nobody out here change me. pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

There is a lot going on in the world, but I am popping back in this space to share a yearlong investigation we published today about a hospital on Chicago's Northwest Side that some call the "Death Hospital." Here's why: blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/27/som…

Mike Powell with so much style that it’s wasted

Alexander Chee meets a likely killer at Denny's, while @talrosenberg puts ANORA (2024) in conversation with MARTHA (1974) for LARB Quarterly's two new columns, available only in print. Get yours and read now at lareviewofbooks.org/quarterly/

"For all its problems, the L holds great significance for Chicagoans. It’s more than a means of moving people around — it’s integral to the city’s character." @talrosenberg for @ChicagoMag: chicagomag.com/chicago-magazi…

This quote is stunning on so many levels to me. Great CTA story on the what went wrong with the L. From @talrosenberg chicagomag.com/chicago-magazi…

With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning looming, the L train is in trouble. What is its future? I wrote about all of it — how we got here and where we might be heading — for the May issue of @ChicagoMag. The story is online today and on newsstands now. (Link below)

A very deep dive by @talrosenberg in @ChicagoMag : "Doors Closing: With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning looming, the 'L' is in trouble. Here’s why our train is worth saving." chicagomag.com/chicago-magazi… @RTA_Chicago @GovPritzker @activetrans @senvillivalam @RepKamBuckner

Soul Music of Illinois,’ edited by local collector Dante Carfagna, is an exhaustive visual survey of our state’s crucial role in the genre. trib.al/n2fJBvF

For @WBEZ I wrote about Soul Music of Illinois, an insanely comprehensive visual and discographical survey of the state’s soul music from 1960-1990, compiled and edited by Dante Carfagna for @numerogroup wbez.org/music/2025/04/…