The Chicago Headline Club presents the finalists for the 45th annual Peter Lisagor Awards, representing some of the best journalism produced across the Chicago region and throughout Illinois over the past year in 100 categories, including newspapers, magazines, television, radio and digital media. Thank you to everyone who submitted nominations […]
These are the categories for the 2021 Peter Lisagor awards, including dozens of new categories designed to reflect the biggest stories and coverage priorities from the past year, including new awards for reporting on COVID-19 and diversity issues. We’ve also added more online and digital categories and removed some circulation […]
The Chicago Headline Club is now accepting nominations for the 2021 Peter Lisagor Awards! Enter here by clicking on “Chicago Headline Club: The 45th Annual Peter Lisagor Awards.” Due to issues with the Chicago Headline Club website, we have extended the deadline to Feb. 7 and will accept additional entries […]
The Chicago Headline Club is seeking a qualified journalist to help plan next year’s Peter Lisagor awards. This job offers a $2,500 stipend for work between Dec. 1 and May 31, typically about 5 hours per week. The ideal candidate will have good organization skills, a journalism background, and a […]
The Chicago Headline Club is now accepting applications for its 2022 FOIAFest Boot Camp, the two-week training program launched last year and integrated into the annual FOIAFest conference. The Boot Camp is intended to support the work of early career journalists of color in Chicago and will partner reporters who […]
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 […]
The Chicago Headline Club and the Chicago Headline Club Foundation have selected Borderless Magazine and the Evanston RoundTable as recipients of the 2021 Intern Grant awards. The Chicago Headline Club Foundation annually awards two $5,000 grants to fund internships at non-for-profit media organizations. The funds are designated to support the […]
By Storer (Bob) Rowley The Chicago Headline Club and the Chicago Headline Club Foundation have selected DePaul University senior Cameron “Cam” Rodriguez as the winner of the Les Brownlee Memorial Scholarship — a $5,000 annual grant given to a Chicago-area journalism student in honor of Les Brownlee. The club and […]
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 […]
For Chicagoans, no journalist has done more than Cheryl Corley to capture the wrenching social justice issues that erupted into a global firestorm and catalyst for change last year. As an NPR national correspondent based in the city for more than two decades, she made herself an expert on issues […]
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