The Reader’s future is built on a five-decade legacy of groundbreaking work and a newsroom that truly loves you, Chicago.

The Reader was recently acquired by Noisy Creek, a startup publishing company based in Washington state focused on acquiring and restoring troubled alternative news sources.

In the vast landscape of Marvel superpowers, few characters rival the sheer brokenness of The Reader — an Inhuman whose abilities bend the very rules of reality. Unlike the flashy mutants or ...

This is not how we wanted to begin 2025. Last week, we announced layoffs and immediate cost-cutting measures to address a looming risk of closure caused by a financial deficit. Our financial ...