FOIAFest 2020 is here! Click on the full schedule here. We sell out every year, and this year was no exception. This daylong conference is dedicated to public information and features panels and workshops with leading journalists, attorneys and community groups. From beginners to veterans of the Freedom of Information […]
Thanks to the Museum of Broadcast Communications for co-hosting such a lovely event with us. We had amazing speakers for “How to build your brand in 2020, from books to podcasts” including: Tracy Samantha Schmidt, Aaron Cohen, Lori Rader-Day, Ethan Michaeli, Eric May, Sammi Skolmoski, Isabel Vázquez, Thanks also to fellow organizers Mike Ewing & Susy Schultz […]
The Chicago Headline Club is proud to partner with the Gene Siskel Film Center for our Media in the Movies series. The documentary this month is: “What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael,” about the famed New Yorker film critic. For Jan. 10-16, Headline Club members using the code GSFCPARTNER […]
WBEZ’s Maria Zamudio is next in our new feature, a membership drive we’re calling #WeAreTheHeadlineClub. The campaigned—designed by photographer E. Jason Wambsgans—is an effort to give our brand and our members more exposure. You’ll see these photos and questions across social media over the next few months, and please take your own […]
We’ve now passed the deadline for the 2019 Peter Lisagor Awards. Tickets for the May 15, 2020, event will be on sale shortly. Previously: Work must have been published or aired between Jan. 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2019. Entries must be the original work of journalists in Illinois or who work for […]
FREE ADVANCED SCREENING: Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell,” starring Paul Walter Hauser, Olivia Wilde, John Hamm, Sam Rockwell and more. Offered as part of our Media in the Movies series. Synopsis: American security guard, Richard Jewell, heroically saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is unjustly vilified […]
Join us for a free, special advanced screening of “Bombshell,” starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie. Offered as part of our Media in the Movies series. Synopsis: A revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; Fox News, and the explosive story of the […]
Brandis Griffith Friedman kicks off our new membership drive, which we’re calling #WeAreTheHeadlineClub. After conducting some research and combing through our recent survey of Chicago journalists, we discovered three very important data points: 1) Journalists valued our monthly trainings and events, such as FOIAFest and the Lisagor Awards, but they […]
The Chicago Headline Club is sponsoring two scholarships covering the $125 registration fee to the WBEZ / The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy‘s two-day symposium “Foundations of Evidence in Data Journalism.” When you apply, briefly state why you are interested in the Headline Club scholarship and […]
An expert panel of editors weighed in on coming up with innovative ideas, getting buy-in from the bosses and turning those ideas into real work in the newsroom at an event co-hosted by the Headline Club and ONA Chicago. Here are some highlights from the panel: Serve your Superfans Kevin Pang, Founder and Editor-in-chief, The […]
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