• Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:15 PM

In the face of a much smaller classified ad market and other challenges of the digital age, Chicago Reader has revamped its design and editorial. The newspaper's newly glossy cover suggests a magazine that should have an extended "shelf life," according to publisher Alison Draper.

The new editor, Mara Shalhoup, the fourth since last June, is planning to broaden the Reader's appeal by adding "artist-on-artist interview/chats and other features in which taste-makers or figures of interest complement the work of its critics," writes the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rosenthal.

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