Shoe leather is the soul of good journalism, and famed Sun-Times Editor Jim Hoge knew it

Shoe leather is the soul of good journalism, and famed Sun-Times Editor Jim Hoge knew it

Columnist Irv Kupcinet gets a light from Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge in 1990.Sun-Times file This week marked the death of James Hoge Jr., the legendary newsman who rose from a night police reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1959 to the paper’s editor and publisher within a decade.He steered the Sun-Times — and later the New York Daily News — at a time when the U.S. faced some of our most challenging public conflicts, from civil rights prot…