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This is the way it went. The momentum just kept building.
First they talked about what the black news media does in Chicago and what you need to do if you want to get your story told.
Then they talked about what’s news and what matters and then the hands went up…

African-American Media Panel Discussion – FREE
Tuesday, November 8 from 6pm to 8pm 
The Little Black Pearl
1060 East 47th StreetChicago, IL 60653-3600
How does the African-American news media cover its community? What more can African-American NGOs, activists and community groups need to get their story told?
Join us for a community dialogue between the…

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein was looking at fatal police shootings in Chicago, and so he began with a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) to the Chicago Police Department.
It quickly became a lesson for Lowenstein, a reporter for Hoy, a daily Spanish-language newspaper, in the difficulty reporters face in getting needed…

An individual of huge stature came through twice for the good of the Chicago Headline Club: Arthur C. Nielsen Jr., who died Oct. 3 at 92. Each time, his gifts were because of friendship begun as a teenager with Les Brownlee, CHC president in 1989-90.
 
A CHC loyalist…

Opening Doors
Every public official we asked to join us, did so. We filled the room. We batted questions and answers back and forth about the state of freedom of information for journalists. Tough questions especially.
Most important of all, we reminded each other that this needs to be the first step…

Eavesdropping law shot down

Illinois’ eavesdropping law has increasingly drawn journalists’ complaints because of the potential for shutting down reporting on public events. Now a Crawford County judge has handed down a decision that declares the law unconstitutional. 
Protecting reporters’ rights to cover the news is a mandate for the Chicago Headline Club,…

The Chicago Headline Club takes issue with a judge’s ruling that Northwestern University journalism students are not covered by the Illinois Reporter’s Privilege Act in their investigation of a murder conviction.Cook County Circuit Court Judge Diane Cannon ruled that Northwestern must turn over to the State’s Attorney’s office about 500…

 

Please Join Us Sept. 17
You know what happens when reporters can’t get information they need. Their stories are incomplete, delayed or worse yet, they die. That is one of the reasons the Chicago Headline Club undertook a sweeping survey of the…

SPJ supports Chicago Tribune in freedom of information case
 
INDIANAPOLIS–The Society of Professional Journalists has joined an amicus brief challenging the University of Illinois Board of Trustees’ attempt to conceal records involving preferential treatment of well-connected applicants to the state university system.
 The brief was filed Friday in support of the Chicago Tribune Company…

Folks,
At the end of September, the Society of Professional Journalists is holding its annual convention in New Orleans, and your delegates will be voting on some important issues.
They will also be holding elections for national and regional positions.
And so, we need you to tell us what you think. That way…