Headline Club, SPJ share storied history
By Stephen Rynkiewicz
Long before it became the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi was a professional society. And Chicago was its touchstone.
The college students who started SDX at a Methodist liberal-arts school in Indiana found journalism their calling. The few fraternal trappings were there…
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The Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists is provided as a public service at no charge by the Headline Club and Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Ethics. Get answers on ethical practices in journalism, and get it right the first time.
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A CALL FOR MENTORS IN CHICAGOLAND
Interested? Contact Jon Seidel at chcmentors@gmail.com
A handful of Chicagoland journalists took advantage last year of an opportunity to up their game and improve the overall quality of the region’s journalism by volunteering to mentor others.
Now Chicago Headline Club members have found new sources of encouragement,…
Ethics in Journalism Award
Ethics means walking the talk – like doing the right thing.
This means acting like a professional, taking into consideration the welfare of those we encounter in covering the news and the possible harm our reports might do to an individual or a community.
It’s a tough line to…
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Journalists and freelance writers working on investigative stories face many obstacles, including costs associated with public access to documents, travel expenses and materials. Thanks to the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, journalists facing such financial burdens can tap into a fund that has been established to alleviate those financial…
$3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INTERNS
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The Chicago Headline Club Foundation, a charitable organization created by the local professional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, offers two $3,000 scholarships for journalism students doing unpaid summer internships in the Chicago area.
Chicago Headline Club Foundation scholarships are available to any college student who…
The Chicago Headline Club is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2008 Watchdog Award for Excellence in Public Interest Reporting are Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Rui Kaneya and Tram Nguyen for their Chicago Reporter series, “Missed Signals.”
The Watchdog Award was presented April 25 at the Intercontinental Hotel during the…
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