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Schedule — Region 5 Spring Conference

April 3, 2014 admin 0

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS 2014 Region 5 Spring Conference Here is the schedule for sessions at the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 5 Spring Conference in Chicago. Encourage your colleagues to come. All are welcome to attend, to learn and to share views. We will have newsroom tours Fri. April […]

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Congrats to our Lisagor Finalists!

March 19, 2014 admin 0

ALL MEDIA: MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATION (AM1)
David Bernstein, Chicago Magazine and Better Government Association, “Lawmakers Gone Wild” 
 
Chris Fusco and Monifa Thomas, Chicago Sun-Times and Tony Arnold of WBEZ, “DCFS’s Faces of Failure” 
 
Daily Herald, Reboot Illinois, “Pension Forum”   
 
 
ALL MEDIA: EDITORIAL CARTOON (AM2)
Jack Higgins, Chicago Sun-Times, “A sampling of editorial cartoons by Jack…

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Enter the 37th Annual Peter Lisagor Awards!

December 5, 2013 admin 0

Download the brochure here The Peter Lisagor Awards are named for The Chicago Daily News’ Washington bureau chief from 1959 to 1976, who was one of the nation’s most respected and well-known journalists.

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Anne Keegan Award

January 22, 2013 admin 0

Download the flyer here. 
The Anne Keegan Award for distinguished journalism reflecting the dignity and spirit of the common man will be presented to writers whose work appears in print, or on established journalism websites, who tell stories of ordinary people in extraordinarily well-reported and well-written prose. 
Distinguished by compassion, character and…

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New Orleans Streaming … Cash for Watchdogs … and Lisagors May 4

November 1, 2011 admin 0

 Here’s what’s up this month
Oct 27, 2011 
Convention comments – Check www.spj.org for a lot of streaming media on the 2011 national convention we held jointly with RTDNA. The professional development sessions and there are a hundred of them are great. Many are recapped online. Curtis Lawrence of Columbia College was selected…

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Steve Franklin to lead 2011-12 Headline Club board

April 16, 2011 admin 0


Steve Franklin, ethnic media director for the Community Media Workshop, will lead the new Chicago Headline Club Board of Directors, which takes office July 1. He and the other officers were elected during a short membership meeting held during the Lisagors Awards…

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Lifetime Achievement Award

December 16, 2010 admin 0

Download our nomination form
The Chicago Headline Club Lifetime Achievement Award is an annual award recognizing journalists for their extraordinary contribution to the community and/or the profession. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors those journalists who tirelessly work to cover, report, edit and tape the news day in and day out.
Lifetime Award…

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Chicago Headline Club Foundation

February 8, 2009 admin 0

$3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INTERNS
Download the Application
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…