Mr. Hoge didn’t hesitate to sign off on the Mirage Tavern sting when reporter Pam Zekman pitched it to him while walking across the Michigan Avenue Bridge in 1977.
Former Sun-Times Editor James Hoge, who helped usher in a golden age of Chicago journalism by hiring young talent and signing off on audacious investigative projects, died Tuesday at age 87
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He was publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times, where he was also its top editor, and New York’s Daily News. He was later editor of the headier Foreign Affairs magazine.
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