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Media Democracy Day — Chicago, 2009 SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 7, 2009, 1pm-4pm If you plan to attend, please take some photos and call in a report about how the conference is going. Call 312 436-1820 (our Google Voice number.) and leave a message about the conference, speakers, and media and democracy. $10 general adm....
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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...
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Gapers Block: Merge – Chi-Town Daily News Folds broke the news about the online news site Chitowndailynews.com – 2007 winner of Knight news challenge grant ($340,000) – and its current economic problems, suggesting it was in trouble. But Chi-Town Daily News’ Geoff Doherty told the rest of the story on his site, writing, “We’ve...
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Gmail went out around 3 p.m. CST on September 1, 2009. I was in the middle of sending an email, so I turned to Twitter to see if it was me or my computer, or was it affecting other people, too. I had been using Wordle, too, so I set up a Twitterfall search...
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Street-Level Youth Media‘s 2009 Summer Arts Apprenticeship Program at the Hyde Park Arts Center presents a show of work from students in their summer-long media arts workshop. The show, titled, Work!, features art by a group of 19 of our most talented youth participants. The public is invited to the Opening Reception of this...
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Image via Wikipedia July 28, 2009 - WCRX, 88.1 FM, Columbia College Chicago’s radio station has received the Gold World Medal in the student station awards category from New York Festivals. The 52-year-old international competition recognizes excellence in Radio and Television in the areas of programming and promotion. Entries are judged by industry professionals...
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July 10, 2009 – Rejection letters have it coming. Writers, publishers, bookmakers and bookworms of all types will come together for food, drink, mingling, and to celebrate the darker side of writers’ lives – by trebuchet catapulting their rejection letters and literary works down the block. From 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight at...
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By Curtis Black of Community Media Workshop June 12, 2009 – Media activists say Friday’s conversion to digital television is likely to go relatively smoothly — though some viewers may still be left in the dark, and larger issues of broadcasters’ public obligations remain to be addressed. The Obama administration helped smooth the conversion,...
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May 15, 2009 – ChicagoTalks reporter interviewed on Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight today about investigation of CTA handicapped accessibility issues. Listen here.
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The Community Renewal Society in Chicago, invites people of faith, who cannot sit back and watch their brothers and sisters be harmed by systematic injustice and deprivation, to a free training event. Community Organizing Training on Monday June 15 – Wednesday June 17 from 9:00 – 5:00 p.m. To help build the public leadership...
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