Category: Future of News

• A new Illinois law that will extend the time a women has to legally abandon her newborn won’t take effect for two months, but already several mothers have tried to give up their older babies. Since…

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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 (1900 w. 23rd St, Chicago) students and members of the Pilsen Alliance thought it was strange when they saw school officials start to fix up the De La Cruz…

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• 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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