Officially known as the Third Coast/ Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition (TC/RHDF) , this contest is for people doing the edgy and interesting audio work that Chicago is know for. (Think Ira Glass and re:Sound.) Third Coast awards prizes for the best audio work produced worldwide in the following categories: Best Documentary (Gold, Silver,...
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Register for Chicagotalks. Use or set up your display name – that will show up in the byline. Login From your dashboard, choose “New Post” Write or copy/paste your work into the post’s text box Add links, images, and video (note you must upload your video to vimeo, youtube, blip.tv, or flickr.com first, then...
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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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For Columbia College students, staff and faculty only… for now. Columbia College student, Ashley Badgley is a Senior Journalism major is asking for your help as she examines the campus’ carbon footprint. Her final independent project is focusing on how to make Columbia a more sustainable campus. In order to calculate  the carbon footprint...
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We are looking for stories about Chicago. We need reviews of music, shows, and art you see. Our news items are just that, written by reporters or citizen journalists, or they are phoned in from the streets. Image via Wikipedia. We would like to publish fiction, poetry, photography, and highlight short video work about...
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Thirty thousand people are expected to walk, bike, roll, dance and play along eight miles of Chicago streets this Saturday for Open Streets. The streets will be closed to car traffic between 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Participants will be able to enjoy all kinds of activities along the way including yoga, basketball, dancing,...
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July 17, 2009 – Whether you have and are wondering how much it will go up this year, are living without insurance, or are satisfied with your insurance, you have a vested interest in the specifics of any health care bill that Congress passes. Huffington Post is sponsoring a crowdsourcing project and wants you...
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We accept news stories and opinion or editorial stories from the public or journalists. When you register for the site, you can choose any username. Please select first and last name for your byline where it asks you for the name the public will see. Your story can be text, text with images, a...
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Next Wednesday May 13, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. click here to join the City Council live from the City Clerk’s site. But if you are one of the Chicagoans for whom politics is a local sport, you might want to join Windycitizen.com and Tamale Chic. They will have the live link to the meeting,...
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April 13, 2009 – The Society of Professional Journalists announced the recipients of the 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism today. We were pleased to learn that a joint investigation by Chicago Talks and The Beachwood Reporter has won SPJ’s 2008 national award for online investigative reporting by an independent media...
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