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Yes — You Can Survive!

The ups and downs of journalism can benefit even laid-off journalists, four experts say. All have landed on their feet, and discussed their checkered job history with about 30 people at the Chicago Headline Club’s…

The Chicago Headline Club board is proud to announce the launch of foiaillinois.org, a McCormick Foundation-funded initiative of the Chicago Headline Club and the Better Government Association, to provide a comprehensive resource for journalists, bloggers, community activists and others to effectively use the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

The website features a blog that will…

Aimed at both seasoned journalists and those just starting out, “Career Survival 101” will help journalists adapt to an ever-changing media landscape by encouraging them diversify and pick up new skills. It’s a panel not only about following new trends and training on new tools, but also advice on how…

Sept. 26, 2012
EIJ12 also known as the Society of Professional Journalists’ annual convention is over. But not forgotten. If you missed it, check www.spj.org for a lot of information including handouts from some of the dozens of professional development sessions. Teresa Smedding, Assistant Managing Editor/Content Systems for the Daily…

The Chicago Headline Club and the News Literacy Project are partnering up to help ensure the future of journalism in Chicago! We’ve fielded a team of runners in the Chicago 5k and half-marathon, and they’ve been training hard to do their part. All we need is your help to make…

Sun. Aug. 26 at the annual Les Brownlee
party-picnic!
We will gather from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the home Les shared with his wife, Priscilla Ruth MacDougall, at 537 Judson Ave. in Evanston.
For those who didn’t know Les, he practiced convergence journalism long before it had a…

Dear Colleague,
 
We are sometimes only as good as our sources and lately I sense that we need more voices to tell us what’s happening with youth violence here.
 
That’s why the Headline Club is co-sponsoring a meeting on June 28th to bring journalists together with those who deal with youth violence….

A veteran journalist, professor and author, Robert M. Knight spent much of his professional life writing about writing.
He died on Tuesday, June 5th at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Mr. Knight was 71.
He wrote three books, most recently Writing Public Prose (Marion Street Press, March 2012). Mr. Knight considered journalism to be…

What we didn’t hear

You couldn’t miss him. He made a striking image.
He was covered in the shawls Jews wear for prayers, carried a long staff and shuffled slowly among the hundreds of marchers headed for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house in skimpy sandals. 
He said he was a modern-day Moses, waiting…