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Podcast: Live With CDP Sports Talk and Entertainment Talk
Episode: Live With CDP Talk Show, Guest: Eli Ong (WGN News Chicago and Chicago Bears Reporter) Season #12, Episode #16, November 20th, 2025 )
Description: Follow https://x.com/ThePenOfEliHi all, my name’s Eli!My official job title at WGN is ‘Digital Supervising Producer,’ which essentially translates to me being a newsprint-style journalist who works for a television news station — meaning I write articles for WGN’s website and help get our news content out across social media, all of which I’ve done since joining the digital team in June 2022.My work at WGN is split between covering Chicago-area sports (primarily the Bears, followed by the Cubs, White Sox and other Chicago sports), enterprise writing on Chicago-area trends and topics, and breaking news article...