Former 'Chicago Tribune' M.E. Jim Warren to Write HuffPost Column

By: Joe Strupp James Warren, former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, is j bringing one of his top Tribune columns with him to Huffington Post.

In an announcement, Huffington Post revealed that Warren, who recently left the Tribune, will contribute a weekly blog post, On Magazines, to the news and opinion Web site beginning Oct. 5. The blog effort had formerly appeared as a column in the Tribune. "Warren will continue to cover a wide range of magazines and journals in his blog, which will appear each Sunday," the release added.

"I have been an obsessive reader of Jim's column for years, so I'm really delighted that I can now be reading it on HuffPost," Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, said in a statement. "Jim uses magazines as a vantage point from which to observe our culture. Like The Huffington Post, his interests are wide-ranging, so he'll be offering his insights on everything from People magazine to The Wilson Quarterly, as well as uncovering hidden nuggets buried within obscure journals or overlooked in mainstream publications."

Added Warren: "Like a dogged parole officer, the magazines column has trailed me for nearly three decades, no matter my day job. If I had a buck for every one I've written about which is no longer with us, I could fly business class to Beijing. It's part and parcel of a truly vibrant, competitive industry on which I've had a neat window. Now, thanks to the surrogates of the Tribune's new proprietor, and with my beloved Yankees out of the playoffs, I've got a little extra time. So I shall return to the fold and be reminded that, yes, despite the dumbing-down of American culture, there are armies lot of ardent, serious readers out there."