The Chicago Tribune has its latest story about Tuesday’s statement, signed by 16 Medill faculty members. It’s mostly a recap of what the Tribune has reported before; there don’t appear to be any new sources beside the letter, actually. Maybe that’s why the Tribune points to a Facebook group as a measure of student anger. [...]

Though former Medill students have expressed support, not all professors agree with handling of Tuesday’s statement.

As reported by The Daily Northwestern, some Medill faculty members released a statement today criticizing Dean John Lavine for his use of anonymous quotes in a column he wrote for the school’s alum magazine, and calling for him to “put an end to what has become an embarrassment” to the school and the university.
Statement from [...]

* How a blind professor — who didn’t realize he was stepping through pools of blood — got through the chaos thanks to his dog and a colleague.
* The life of victim Dan Parmenter, 20, of Elmhurst:
Dan Parmenter’s fraternity brothers at Pi Kappa Alpha could rely upon him to organize charity events. His boss could [...]

This photo, of a mourning student and her helpless friend, captures the agony of grief more powerfully than anything else I’ve seen today.
Five people were shot and killed at Northern Illinois University on Tuesday by a gunman, who then killed himself. It’s impossible to make real sense of such brutal violence, or to offer [...]

Dean John Lavine’s potentially bogus anonymous quotes are the subject of the fifth-most prominent story on the Chicago Tribune’s Web site at the time of writing.
Lavine again said that the quotes were real but he couldn’t remember whom they were from. He said that because it was an opinion piece, the use of anonymous sources [...]

Medill senior and former public editor of the Daily Northwestern, David Spett, wrote a column that appeared in the Daily on Monday that suggests the dean’s extensive use of anonymous sources gives us cause to be suspicious.
On Tuesday night, the Chicago Reader published a blog entry that built on Spett’s column, stating:
[Spett's] not alone. Faculty [...]

Every big media outlet has a guide to Super Tuesday, when 24 states hold their presidential primary or caucus. Problem is, who has time to read all of them?
Like any good blog, we’re here to save you time by alternatively dismissing and praising the hard work of real journalists. So here’s your guide to [...]

On the New York Times homepage at the time of writing, a breaking news banner says “A.P. and Television Networks Project Obama as Winner in South Carolina.” The timestamp reads 7:01 p.m. ET. Lower on the page, it shows the standings:
Obama: 0%. Clinton: 0%. John Edwards…0%. With 0% reporting. The timestamp reads 7:02 p.m. ET. [...]

Keynote speaker Alexis Herman had strong words for the media yesterday. She doesn’t give specific evidence, but hers is a public, stern, industry-outsider perspective. Check it out:
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Newsy terms coined by Weldon
Narrativangelism – Crusading for narrative style writing by making your news room a narrative newsroom. Because most writers are awarded with Pulitzers for their narrative style writing, more news rooms find this style of writing to be more rewarding.
Emergence journalism – Not just thinking about journalism as ink on paper [...]

President Bienen sent out an e-mail to Medill people this morning saying that Dean Lavine will stay on past 2009, when his 3.5 year appointment was initially to end. Bienen doesn’t say whether this next term has an end date, but he made some key points:

Lavine (and us!) has set a “new standard for [...]

Okay, since when was leading in New Hampshire after being slightly behind in Iowa considered a ‘comeback’ that keeps you from political death?
The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post and Fox News are all portraying Hillary’s lead in New Hampshire, with most districts reporting, as a shocking “comeback.” The Washington Post is [...]

If you ever felt Medill never listens to you, you’re dead wrong.

Photographer Chris Jordan uses massive images to illustrate statistics, quite literally.