A Dark Day at the Chicago Sun-Times The Chicago Headline Club condemns the Sun-Times Media Group's decision this week to lay off its entire photo staff. This move will ultimately compromise the ability of the storied and award-winning Chicago Sun-Times, which anchors the company, to properly cove...
Chicago Headline Club Announces Lisagor Award Winners CHICAGO, May 3, 2013 – The Chicago Headline Club, the largest Society of Professional Journalists chapter in the country, today announced the winners of its 2012 Lisagor Awards at its annual awards dinner tonight befor...
The Chicago Headline Club presents: A Conversation on Mental Health Thursday, May 2 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Columbia College 33 E. Congress Pkwy. Room 101 A frank discussion with first-hand accounts from Chicago luminaries David Axelrod, Clarence Page and Perri Sma...
The Chicago Headline Club joins all others in mourning the loss of Roger Ebert. (Roger Ebert accepts the Chicago Headline Club’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 from Felicia Middlebrooks, left, with Chaz Ebert at his side.) Bernard Judge, chairman of the...
MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATION Robert Herguth, Dane Placko, David Bernstein, Chicago Magazine, “Maywood Confidential” Hoy Staff, Chicago Tribune Graphics Staff, CU-Citizen Access.org Staff, “Midwest Chronicles: Diversity Flourishes” Matthew Weinstock, Haydn Bush, Mar...
The Better Government Association's (BGA) Andy Shaw helped the Chicago Headline Club kick off their first annual FOIA FEST. Learn more about the power of FOIA by visiting the BGA online at www.bettergov.org. Learn more about FOIA FEST here. Also: How to file a FOIA in Illinois And: FOI...
In light of Sunshine Week, the Chicago Headline Club is rolling out its first annual FOIA FEST. The Better Government Association’s Andy Shaw will help us kick off the week with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 11 at the auditorium of Columbia College Chicago’s journa...
In light of alarming reports that journalists from some of America's most established news organizations have allowed their sources and/or sources' representatives to edit and/or approve quotes before publication or broadcast (see http://nyti.ms/PAy5QS), the Chicago Headline Club hereby adopts ...
HOW DO YOU TRUST THE NEWS IN A DIGITAL WORLD? A Forum on Digital Media Ethics in Journalism 7 p.m.Wed. Feb. 13, 2013 Panelists HUGH DELLIOS, News Editor, Associated Press, Midwest Bureau MEGHAN DOUGHERTY, Assistant Professor of Digital Communication BASTIAAN VANACKER, Director o...
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