Press
“Celebrations of Queer Life Through Photography: A Review of ‘Images on Which to Build 1970s–1990s’ at the Cultural Center” Newcity: May 6, 2024.
“Media Burn hosts a historic symposium” Chicago Reader: April 16, 2024
“‘Catalyst,’ new hip-hop documentary with local roots, to screen in Hyde Park Wednesday” Hyde Park Herald: October 24, 2023.
“The politics of video intimacy: Julie Gustafson’s feminist documentary practice” Studies in Documentary Film: May 29, 2023.
“Film 50 2022: PROJECTORS: Exhibitors and Archivists” Newcity: December 6, 2022.
“Cosmo Campoli’s World in a Day” Hyde Park Herald: March 28, 2022.
“History on Tape.” UChicago Magazine: Fall 2021.
“Today in the Culture, April 6, 2021 | Dressing Rihanna | Preserving Guerrilla Video” Newcity: April 6, 2021.
“Filmmakers look back at pioneering movie ‘Transsexuals’” Windy City Times: September 2, 2020.
“Film 50 2019: Chicago’s Screen Gems” Newcity: September 26, 2019.
“Ghosts in the Machine: A Video Anthology from Media Burn” Tone Madison: September 26, 2019.
“Film 50 2015: Chicago’s Screen Gems” Newcity: October 15, 2015.
“A city and its history unearthed in Honduran jungle” Chicago Tribune: March 20, 2015.
“Critic and ‘gregarious loner’ Andrew Patner passes away at 55” Chicago Reader: February 2, 2015.
“Jerry Blumenthal left lasting memories on screen and in person” Chicago Tribune: November 21, 2014.
“RIP Jerry Blumenthal, founding partner of Kartemquin Films” Chicago Reader: November 17, 2014.
“Anda Korsts’s Video Metropolis” review. Chicago Reader: October 30, 2014.
“Video Ball event aims to spotlight Media Burn archival adventures” Chicago Tribune: September 26, 2014.
“The Weird Minutes Before Nixon’s Resignation” The New Yorker: August 8, 2014.
“When Irreplaceable History Lives on Obsolete Tech” Popular Mechanics: July 2, 2014.
“Unearthed Chicago documentary reveals House music glory years” Chicago Sun-Times: April 2, 2014.
“Bill Veeck, baseball’s Barnum” Chicago Tribune: February 9, 2014.
“Government 101–as taught by Daniel Rostenkowski” Chicago Reader: October 11, 2013.
“Easter in Cabrini: Jane Byrne’s 1981 PR disaster” Chicago Reader: March 29, 2013.
“Minnie Minoso Gets His Moment” Chicago Tribune: December 7, 2012.
“In The Water, a Supercomputer and a Population of Dolphins” The Atlantic: October 23, 2012.
“A Glimpse of George McGovern in 1971” Chicago Reader: October 23, 2012.
“What I’m Doing This Weekend: Sara Chapman” Chicago Magazine: May 30, 2012.
“Documentarian has Minnie Minoso, Studs Terkel projects in the works” Chicago Tribune: April 27, 2012
“Minoso Doc Seeks Final Funding” Chicago Reader: April 1, 2012
“Studs at 100: Friends Remember A Larger-Than-Life Hero” Time Out Chicago: March 13, 2012
“An Early Glimpse of Don Cornelius” Chicago Reader: February 2, 2012
“Studs Terkel and His Friends” Chicago Reader: November 2, 2011
“Chicago’s Media Burn Archive Receives ‘America’s Treasures’ Federal Grant” Chicago Tribune: February 7, 2011
“Chicago’s Media Burn Archive Honored as ‘American Treasure’” Time Out Chicago: February 7, 2011
“Royko and Terkel Discuss the Annals of Chicago Bars” Chicago Reader: August 18, 2010
“Chicago Verite: Media Burn Video Archive Preserves Windy City History” Chicago Weekly: May 12, 2010
“UsTube” Chicago Reader: October 26, 2006
“Weinberg Allowing New ‘Weekend TV’ To Be Free-Flowing” Chicago Tribune: May 31, 1995
“Careful, It’s the 90s” Chicago Reader: October 1, 1992
“Has Tom Weinberg Seen the Future of Television?” Chicago Reader: September 27, 1990
“Meet Those Famous Voices” Chicago Tribune: January 24, 1989
“Ten Years on the Outskirts of Television” Chicago Reader: December 22, 1988
“Unearthing Chicago’s Underground Video Scene” Hyde Parker: Dec-Jan 1973
Radio
“Independent video symposium to allow visitors to view decades old TV reels” WBBM Newsradio: April 17, 2024.
“Preserving Appalachian History” Kentucky Edition (Kentucky Educational Television): July 31, 2023
“Media Burn is celebrating their 20th anniversary!” (WGN-AM Chicago): October 6, 2022.
“Chicago-based Media Burn Independent Video Archive receives $500K grant to launch new national project” (WLS-TV Chicago): April 10, 2021.
“OTL #756: Media Burn archives history, best new local tacos, The Secret History of Michael DeLisle” Outside the Loop Radio (WGN-AM Chicago): April 10, 2021.
“The Ghost in the Machine” 8 O’Clock Buzz (WORT-FM Madison): September 2, 2019.
“Ghosts in the Machine preview” After Hours with Rick Kogan (WGN-AM Chicago): August 18, 2019.
“Elizabeth Brackett Honored on US House Floor” Chicago Tonight (WTTW-TV Chicago): June 26, 2018.
“Media Burn’s Tom Weinberg” (WGN-AM Chicago): January 2, 2015.
“Former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne Dies” (WBEZ-FM Chicago): November 14, 2014.
“So, Why Did It Take So Long For It To Be Mayor Jane Byrne’s Turn?” Curious City (WBEZ-FM Chicago): July 24, 2014.
“MJ Film Fest” Morning Shift (WBEZ-FM Chicago): July 12, 2013.
“Minnie Minoso’s Movie Moment” Afternoon Shift #208 (WBEZ-FM Chicago): December 11, 2012.
“Interview with Sara Chapman, Judy Hoffman, and Tom Weinberg” Live From the Heartland (WLUW-FM Chicago): June 16, 2012.
“Tom Weinberg interviewed by Rick Kogan” Chicago Live! (WGN-AM Chicago): June 7, 2012.
“Media Burned for Digital Consumption” 848 (WBEZ-FM Chicago): May 6, 2010
“Interview with Tom Weinberg” Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan (WGN-AM Chicago): April 11, 2010
