Get Ready for NATO With the NATO summit approaching, the Chicago Headline Club will try to compile as many tips and resources for local journalists here. If you have any more links or tips to share, please send them to chc.spj@gmail.com and we'll add them to the site. These are notes...
Horace Barks, founder of Barks Publications Inc. and for more than 40 years publisher of the trade magazine Electrical Apparatus, knew from an early age that he wanted to work in journalism, his family said. "He sold copies of the Saturday Evening Post when he was a little kid," said his wife, Els...
Congratulations to our 2011 Lisagor WINNERS! CHICAGO – The Chicago Headline Club, the largest Society of Professional Journalists chapter in the country, today announced the winners of its 2011 Lisagor Awards at its annual awards dinner before nearly 350 people at the Union League Club of Ch...
Journalists and Trauma, How to Cover it and How it Impacts You CHICAGO — Frank Ochberg, a psychiatrist and founder of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma writes that “after a murder, a rape, or the bombing of a building, there is a story to be told” but that “th...
When Natalie Brower Potts asked how many journalists had filed Freedom of Information Act requests, a majority of the hands in the room went up. When she asked how many received responses without any problems, only one hand went up. One reporter immediately brought up a problem. She had been tol...
The Chicago Headline Club is deeply troubled by the action taken this weekend by Chicago police against two TV news staff. While covering public reaction to a yet another sad loss of life from violence, they were handcuffed and briefly taken into custody near a Chicago hosp...
The following is a story written by Patrick Boylan that reflects the importance of open meetings and respecting reporters' rights and privileges. His website is www.wellesparkbulldog.com. And this is what we'll be talking about at a workshop at noon Saturday, March 17, at Chicago Kent ...
The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press Executive Director Lucy Dalglish said last week that Illinois' eavesdropping law is “unique in the nation” and that banning the recording of something that happened in public is “nonsense”. “In this particula...
Headline Club Applauds Judge’s Decision We are grateful that U.S. District Judge James Zagel respected Reporter’s Privilege in ruling that reporters for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times need not turn over notes of interviews with a juror who apparently concealed her criminal ...
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