Category: Future of News

Life Beyond Print by Vickey Williams, Stacy Lynch and Bob LeBailly from Medill’s Media Management Center, is a study of 3,800 newsroom workers habits and ideas about newrooms

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Literally nothing was thrown away at the GreenTown Conference, held Oct. 15 at Columbia College Chicago, because all its waste was recycled or composted. But garbage was, in fact, on a lot of…

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Parents of Whittier Elementary School students and members of the Pilsen Alliance thought it was strange when they saw school officials start to fix up the De La Cruz Academy public school in Pilsen…

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Interesting trends and patterns in 18-64 Americans and media. Consumption of media moving away from tradtional sources, but trad media “remains influential when compared to digital advertising.”

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If this isn’t vaporware, and if it takes doc formats like .doc, .pdf, as well as ones from the e-bookstore, this is going to disrupt things as they are now with reading and online.

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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…

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Chicago music fans will have three opportunities to experience live world music this week as Fra Fra Sound will perform in concert. Based in the Netherlands, Fra Fra Sound, the Suriname-Caribbean…

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There are only two more performances of the unique gem of music theater. The venue is cool, and we parked on the street for $1.25. The musicians and singers and all of the other people involved are…

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YouTube – I Wonder What I Could Be. Columbia students who need financial aid are getting squeeed because the Monetary Award Program was slashed. Students who got money for Fall semester tuition…

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A controversial program that paid over $2 million to students for good grades has been quietly scrapped due to lack of funding, said Michael Scott, president of the Chicago Board of Education. …

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