Charles Madigan
Charles M. Madigan (born August 23, 1949) is an American educator who has been an editor, journalist and columnist in Chicago, Illinois. Life. Madigan grew up in Altoona, Pennsylvania and attended Pennsylvania State University. He had his first professional newspaper job with the "Altoona Mirror" in 1966. From 1968 to 1970 he worked as local government reporter for the "Harrisburg Patriot" in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He worked for United Press International from 1970 to 1979, including two and a half years as correspondent from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Associated with the "Chicago Tribune" from 1979 until  2008, he was the Sunday Perspective editor and senior correspondent, and was the paper's national editor, Washington, DC news editor, projects editor, Atlanta correspondent, national correspondent and was the paper's first senior writer. In 2000 he was executive editor of Britannica.com, but returned to the "Tribune" in October. Madigan wrote the main story on the September 11, 2001 attacks for the September 12, 2001 editions of the "Tribune". In 2003 and 2004 Madigan was an instructor at the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University. He co-authored and collaborated on several books. He was the editor of  Global Chicago and worked on a book about his family's history in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania. He has three sons, Eamon, Brian and Conor. His wife, Linda, teaches special education. In 2007 Madigan became the Presidential Writer in Residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago, teaching classes focused on journalism and politics in the university's Department of Communication. He appeared on C-SPAN in 2005 and 2010.