Robert Feder (born May 17, 1956) is an American media who was the television and radio columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1980 until 2008, a blogger for WBEW from 2009 until 2010, and a blogger for Time Out Chicago from 2011 until 2013. Feder also reported local TV and radio news on his own blog.
Growing up, Feder considered his idol to be CBS legend Walter Cronkite, and he created the first and only fan club of Cronkite at age 14.
In 2008, Feder took a buyout from the Sun-Times. After a one-year hiatus, he joined Chicago's Vocalo.org as a blogger, where he worked until December 2010.
Feder joined Time Out Chicago as media critic on January 3, 2011.
On April 8, 2013, Feder announced in an email and on his Facebook page that with the closure of Time Out as a printed magazine and its shift to a digital-only platform, he would accept a buyout of his contract and leave Time Out Chicago.
On August 15, 2013, Feder launched "RobertFeder.com", under a licensing and marketing agreement with Chicago Tribune Media Group. That agreement included some of his blog posts appearing as articles in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. While he continued to blog at his website, his licensing and marketing agreement ended at the end of August 2016 and was not renewed. On April 26, 2017, his blog was under an agreement with the Daily Herald, a newspaper serving the northern, northwestern and western suburbs of Chicago. Feder ceased frequent reporting on his blog in 2022, but still posts items of interest on social media and publishes freelance work.
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