CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUBBoard of Directors meetingFri. April 3, 2020 President Rob Elder called the meeting to order. Also present: Greg Karp, Flynn McRoberts, Amanda Vinicky, Jason Martin, Mike Ewing, Susan S. Stevens, Suzanne McBride, Stan Zoller, Christine Wolf, Madhu Krishmarthy, Maria Zamudio, Alejandra Cancino and Ben Meyerson. All of us were […]
A pandemic image. Allure.com photo. By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Look what happened to ethics in this time of a global viral pandemic. It became important, a matter of life and death. This became clear when the national demand for life-saving ventilators was greater than the supply, […]
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To Chicago Headline Club members and our sister chapters across the US : I’ve been asked to provide an update on the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) sponsorship task force and our unanimous recommendation to update the organization’s policy. In short, the SPJ board endorsed this recommendation on April 18, […]
Plague in Phrygia. Art Institute Journalism of a Plague Year By Hugh Miller Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists On April 3rd, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 14thCongressional district of New York, wrote in a tweet: “COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + […]
A few chapter leaders asked for a history of the friction over sponsors accepted by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and its partners at the Excellence in Journalism (EIJ) conference, so here goes: I was asked to be on a sponsorship policy task force was formed, in part, to […]
The Chicago Headline Club has long asked the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) to reject money from questionable sources—not along political lines, but because, as a professional organization, SPJ should not be taking money from sources that have attacked journalism and journalists. This is a central issue, tied to our […]
Coronavirus illustrated: Steve Brodner writes about the worst takes on the virus, featuring Rush Limbaugh, Geraldo Rivera and President Trump. Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.
In April 2020, the Chicago Headline Club held discussion about covering our most vulnerable communities in crisis, as we talked about the COVID-19 pandemic and the documentary COOKED: Survival By Zip Code about the 1995 heatwave that killed 739 mostly black, elderly and poor Chicagoans. This was a special event […]
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