Why you should care about Cory Maye and Cameron Todd Willingham
What we can learn from the stories of Cory Maye and Cameron Todd Willingham.
Julie in Paris: Coming to you from Berlin, Germany
Julie will be in Paris, France until Dec. 17.
It would seem you can take the girl out of Medill, but you can’t take the Medill out of the girl.
In all honesty, I haven’t really gone looking for adventure. But it seems to find me anyway.
So it was pure coincidence that the weekend I went [...]
Chicago Tribune’s Gerry Kern discusses rough times, bright future for newspapers
Gerry Kern, the newspaper’s senior vice president and executive editor, reassured students that not all is lost for newspapers during a lecture Thursday at the McCormick Tribune Center Forum.
Answering the question no one really answers
One student’s idea opens a window into strangers’ souls.
Wanted: One full-time journalism job for this Medill senior
What’s more challenging than four years spent at Medill? Finding a job after graduation.
Inside My Office: Loren Ghiglione
McTrib’s second floor is home to the Medill professor’s quirky office
An open letter to Dean Lavine
As of right now, Medill’s name isn’t worth the résumé paper it’s printed on.
Wherein I make Dean Lavine a mixtape (Now in non-libelous style)
Special Author Update: It has been brought to my attention that my original post may possibly be chock full of libel, since Dean Lavine hasn’t actually admitted to or been found to have been making quotes up. Ooops! I’m a bad journalist, and apologize. To rectify the situation, I’ve added new comments [...]
Some faculty: Lavine controversy has caused ‘crisis’ for Medill
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 [...]
NU, you look like you need a massage
We all need a massage after the past seven days.
Same school, different side of the world: the future parallel lives of NU Qatar students
A glimpse into what life will be like at NU’s new branch school in the Middle East.
Help Medill rename itself! (Update 1)
Maybe the Medill School of Journalism is a terrible name for our school.
Lavine’s wrong. Journalists, not marketers, need to control media’s future
Medill’s Dean is overhauling the journalism curriculum–but who should really be in control of the future of media?
How was your TM pref, dear sophomore?
Today in the life of a Medill sophomore…
8:00: Your wake up to the sounds of your cell phone’s alarm. You groggily hit snooze, pull the blankets over and go back to sleep.
8:08: Your alarm goes off again. Snooze. You have a nice dream about bagels.
8:16: Your alarm goes off again. You’re about to [...]
