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Robert Feder pulling blog from Vocalo

Robert Feder, the former Chicago Sun-Times columnist whose local media coverage and criticism gave Chicago Public Media’s Vocalo both an identity and much of its Web traffic, announced early Tuesday on his blog he is leaving the site he joined only last fall.

Chicago Public Media’s Vocalo to cut staff by five

Chicago Public Media, parent of public radio’s WBEZ-FM 91.5, is dropping five staffers from its multiplatform venture Vocalo. Torey Malatia, CPM’s president and chief executive, told staff of the cuts as WBEZ and Vocalo begin their new fiscal year with a budget he said is “a reflection of our strategic choices.”