Interview with Chicagoland Journalist Rick Michal
Decades into the journalism business, Rick Michal still finds delight in knowing he wrote a good story. “Being recognized [or] any little comment is rewarding enough,” Michal said. “You need the paycheck to live, but maybe it’s the same with actors where they need the applause and to be onstage, but for writers it’s getting […]
What You Need to Know About an Online Presence
The LION Summit 2013 welcomed professor Rich Gordon, director of Digital Innovation at Medill School, Northwestern University. As the keynote speaker and pioneer of journalism databases, Gordon focused his hour-long discussion on the topics he teaches his students to analyze. “The web is the most measurable medium,” said Gordon. The class he teaches will begin […]
Bring Together a Diverse Community
Cowbird is a storytelling platform that links one image with a story. They want to “build a public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as part of the commons.” ChicagoTalks wants to encourage reporters to try telling the kind of stories journalists have always told […]
Election 2012 Coverage from Columbia College Chicago
Listen to WCRX live election coverage beginning at 7 p.m. Get the Pop-up Player Now View Columbia College Chronicle coverage Election Night Returns party at Columbia College Chicago Chicagotalks News Feed on Democracy in American Columbia College students will report on election night news as it occurs… WCRX-FM, will provide live, up to-the-minute […]
Graduation for journalism students
When you are onstage and part of the graduation ceremony, it is hard to be a good reporter, but here are some faculty-eye view photos and short video clips to give you the flavor of Columbia College Chicago’s Journalism and School of Media Arts graduation. We were on the stage of the Chicago Theater at […]
Goodman Play Tweaks Online Crowd with a Twist on Miss Lonelyhearts
A new play that pokes fun at the online, wired community is opening at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago next week as part of a program that gives playwrights a chance to create and showcase fresh works in front of an audience. Ask Aunt Susan, a play written by Seth Bockley will open at 7:30 […]
Chicago Tribune’s Mary Schmich Discusses Facebook Journalism
Facebook: Almost 500 million people in the world have a profile, and they love it, hate it or love to hate it. Regardless of the feelings you have toward your profile, Mary Schmich, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, told an audience at a Community Media Workshop in Chicago June 9 that you have to treat […]
Are you Kachingling Us Yet? CJR checks up on Kachingle
Image via CrunchBase Barbara Iverson, founder of the nonprofit local news site Chicagotalks, has used Kachingle since this past January… Iverson still likes the idea so much that she recorded a promotional video for Kachingle’s home page. “I think this is an idea that’s going to come within the next five years,” Iverson said. “I […]
Polonia Today: The Life of an Editor-in-Chief
T. Ron Jasinski-Herbert sat at his home office at 3 a.m., translating the list that was faxed over to him of all the Polish government officials that died in the plane crash over Russia. “I was the first in this country to see that list. I was supposed to introduce the president on May 1 […]
ProPublica Helps You Localize the Stimulus Plan Money
ProPublica is an “independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with ‘moral force.’ We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the […]
Teens Making News This Week with Words, Not Weapons
Teens are making news in ChicagoTalks, owing to a couple of journalism-related efforts that combine news know-how, education and the voice of teenagers about problems they face. At Marquette School, located at 6550 S. Richmond St. in Chicago, they are kicking off a new curriculum focused on news literacy. In the loop, Columbia College Chicago’s Links program […]
Q&A – Steve Rhodes, The Beachwood Reporter
After being fed up with the reluctance of mainstream media to get online, Steve Rhodes left the Chicago magazine and started his own Web-based publication, The Beachwood Reporter. Combining dry wit with local media critique, Rhodes has managed to turn his grass-roots venture into a site that continues to gather national attention while gaining new local subscribers. In […]
