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The Chicago Headline Club has written Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to urge her to act to prevent the state Legislature from conducting any further closed sessions, as the Senate did this week.

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March 26-27, 2010

Greising Tells CHC About CNC

This is just the beginning for the Chicago News Cooperative, says David Greising, general manager and deputy editor of the three-month-old producer of public-interest journalism.

SPJ Part of Brief for Medill

SPJ and many other journalism organizations have joined in filing briefs in support of Northwestern university journalism students.

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CPD extends media credentials validity

The Chicago Police Department has extended the validity of existing media credentials from 2008 through June 30, 2010, police spokesman Roderick Drew said Feb. 19. In a Feb. 17 letter he sent "media partners," he said CPD has proposed amendments to the current credentials rules and the amendments will require City Council approval. Drew said late last year that requirements that applicants be fingerprinted and undergo criminal background checks might be removed from the credentialing rules.

Subpoena fight continues for Northwestern Medill students

Chicago Headline Club pledges support

(Feb. 10) The Cook County state's attorney's office is refusing to drop its efforts to subpoena notes videos, e-mails and grades of Northwestern University journalism students and their professor, David Protess.

The state's attorney's office is seeking the students' records in connection with its work on the Medill Innocence Project investigating the Anthony McKinney case. McKinney was convicted of the 1978 slaying of a security guard in suburban Harvey, Ill.