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CHC Board Meeting: May 7, 2021

May 7, 2021 admin 0

CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUBBoard of Directors meetingMay 7, 2021 President Madhu Krishnamurthy called the meeting to order at 9 a.m. Also present via Zoom: Howard Dubin, Greg Karp, Flynn McRoberts, Robert Elder, Ash-har Quaraishi, Alejandra Cancino, Blair Chavez, Maria Zamudio, Nader Issa, Maya Dukmasova, Amanda Vinicky, Taylor Moore, Suzanne McBride, Mike […]

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Foreign Ethics

May 27, 2021 admin 0

http://www.acu.org.uk image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists gets inquiries from journalists all over the world about ethics quandaries. Here’s one: The caller is a writer for a motorcycling magazine in Spain, where he is based. He has an offer to join the World […]

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BBC Apologizes

May 21, 2021 admin 0

ABC57.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Twenty-five years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation apologizes that one of its reporters, Martin Bashir, used fake bank statements to get a sensational interview with Princess Diana. “It was a stupid thing to do and was an action I deeply regret,” […]

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Ranking Plagues

May 13, 2021 admin 0

surrey604.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists It’s too early to tell where the current coronavirus-19 pandemic ranks among the world’s worst plagues. At this writing, global cases stood at 160.6 million and global deaths at 3.3 million. The United States led the world with 32,827,228 cases and […]

2020 Watchdog Award winner: ‘Left In the Dark’ by WBBM

May 14, 2021 admin 0

The winner of the Chicago Headline Club’s 2020 Watchdog Award is “Left In the Dark,” by Samah Assad, Christopher Hacker and Dave Savini at WBBM CBS 2. How the team at WBBM described the project: The CBS 2 investigative team had been reporting about the issue of wrongful police raids […]

These are the winners of the 2020 Peter Lisagor Awards

May 14, 2021 admin 0

Here are the winners of the 2020 Peter Lisagor Awards, representing some of the best journalism made across the Chicago region over the past year in more than 100 categories, including newspapers, magazines, television, radio and digital media. Entries were judged by an impartial SPJ chapter outside Illinois. Thank you […]

Stacy St. Clair wins the 2020 Anne Keegan Award

May 7, 2021 Administrator 0

The Anne Keegan award honors journalists who write stories that capture the dignity and spirit of ordinary men and women. It was created in 2012 to honor Anne Keegan, a longtime writer for the Chicago Tribune whose work was distinguished by compassion, character and courage. Her stories often profiled everyday people […]

2020 Watchdog Award finalists announced

May 7, 2021 Administrator 0

Sponsored by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Chicago Headline Club each year awards a cash prize for enterprising journalism that defends and protects everyday folks. The Watchdog Award honors Chicago-area news reporting that calls attention to situations in which the public is being harmed or poorly served.  This year, […]