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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…

Horace Barks, founder of Barks Publications Inc. and for more than 40 years publisher of the trade magazine Electrical Apparatus, knew from an early age that he wanted to work in journalism, his family said.
“He sold copies of the Saturday Evening Post when he was a little kid,” said his…

Covering the NATO protests?
How to report safely and know your rights
 
Come to this workshop to learn about: 
     • Safe places to report from along the protest route
     • What equipment to bring for emergencies
     • What to do and whom to call in case of arrest
   …

Journalists and Trauma,
How to Cover it and How it Impacts You 

CHICAGO — Frank Ochberg, a psychiatrist and founder of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma writes that “after a murder, a rape, or the bombing of a building, there is a story to be told”…

When Natalie Brower Potts asked how many journalists had filed Freedom of Information Act requests, a majority of the hands in the room went up. When she asked how many received responses without any problems, only one hand went up.
One reporter immediately brought up a problem. She had been told…