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CHC Board Meeting: October 1, 2021

October 1, 2021 admin 0

CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUBBoard of Directors meetingFri. Oct. 1, 2021 President Amanda Vinicky called the Zoom meeting to order at 9 a.m. Also present: Madhu Krishnamurthy, Mike Ewing, Adam Rhodes, Molly McDonough, Greg Karp, Robert Elder, Howard Dubin, Jason Martin, Matt Kiefer, Blair Kamin, Nader Issa, Ash-Har Quraishi , Catherine Larkin, […]

October Newsletter: How can we help local journalists?

October 4, 2021 admin 0

A NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT Thank you. I can think of no better way to begin this message than a note of appreciation for the role you —Chicago’s journalists — have played these past 19 months in providing understanding, uncovering inequalities and wrongdoing, and sharing information with audiences amid the […]

September Newsletter: How can we help local journalists?

October 1, 2021 admin 0

A NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT Thank you. I can think of no better way to begin this message than a note of appreciation for the role you —Chicago’s journalists — have played these past 19 months in providing understanding, uncovering inequalities and wrongdoing, and sharing information with audiences amid the […]

TV They-Speak

October 14, 2021 admin 0

http://www.amazon.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalist ABC7 Chicago television, they are inventing a new way to speak or mangling the English language. Listen to the announcers on WLS-TV, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. They include the word “they” in the oddest places. A sports announcer […]

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Double Dipping?

October 8, 2021 admin 0

http://www.ecourtreporters.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The caller asked the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists if it is ethical for a freelance reporter to report the local town news, covering the town council and government meetings, while at the same time being paid to write the mayor’s column. […]

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Covid and Media

October 1, 2021 admin 0

http://www.forbes..com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists At a time the Covid-19 death toll tops the fatalities in the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, the nation’s news media workforce is something like 40 percent diminished from a generation ago. This is something for scholars and medical historians to chew on. […]