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When: Sat, December 4, 8:30am 10:30am
Where: Sankofa Cultural Arts & Business Center, 5820 W. Chicago Ave
Description: How do you find out what’s going on in your community? What would like you to tell the journalists who cover your neighborhood? What stories do you think are being missed? How can…

“Chicago’s Islam community is much like Chicago,” Franklin said; its people are numerous and “just as diverse.” When media make mistakes, he said, “it affects lives here and lives around the world.”
The panel included: Rummana Hussain, Chicago Sun-Times reporter; Jawaid Riaz, bureau chief of both Urdu Times and Pakistan Post…

New rules for journalists wishing to obtain City of Chicago media credentials are in place, but the mechanics are not. Yet.
Maribel Hernandez, the police News Affairs employee who will be in charge, said it will probably be mid- to late-November before the office is ready to issue new press passes….

Members of the Chicago Headline Club’s board of directors are happy to answer your questions:
Susan S. Stevens, president: susanstevens@aol.com
Beth Konrad, president ex-officio: bkonrad@luc.edu
Hilary Fosdal, membership vice president: fosdal@uwalumni.com
Ken Davis, programs vice president: apallasch@suntimes.com
Kristen Schorsch, secretary: klschorsch@tribune.com
Howard Dubin, treasurer: hdubin@manufacturersnews.com
Kathy Catrambone, executive director: chc.kathy@gmail.com
Jon Seidel, mentorship and digital media chairman: jcseidel@hotmail.com
Brian…

Cara Smith, the new Illinois Public Access Counselor, received more than 4,100 calls for help during the first 10 months of her job, which started Jan. 1 when the FOIA took effect.
Many of the issues could have been resolved without contacting her office, Smith said, simply with better communication between…

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-1016-abrams-tribune-20101015,0,7811444.story
Our letter also got a mention from Robert Feder here:
http://blogs.vocalo.org/feder/2010/10/editor-calls-damage-to-tribune-reputation-‘shameful’/39987
 
Oct. 15, 2010
 Federal Bankruptcy Court
Creditors Committee
Tribune Co. Board of Directors
Tribune Co. Executive Management
 The board of directors of the Chicago Headline Club, the local chapter of the nationwide Society of Professional Journalists, strongly objects to the culture of offensiveness that has marginalized…

 
Smith said it has taken intense negotiation to get the Obama Administration and the Justice Department behind the proposed legislation, and said Republican senators remain “in lockstep” on national security concerns voiced most prominently by U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)., even though Smith considers such concerns to be a “red…

Police Credentials -New rules that don’t include fingerprints and do include freelancers have been passed in Chicago. However, they won’t start taking effect until the end of this month or beginning of next month, according to Maribel Hernandez at police news affairs. She says technical problems have to be dealt…

FOIA in 2010
Illinois Public Access Counselor Cara Smith will talk about the new law and its challenges.
5 p.m. Thurs. Oct. 14
at
IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law
565 W. Adams St.
Everyone welcome • Free • No RSVP needed
Co-sponsors of this ninth annual First Amendment Forum include Chicago Headline Club, IIT-Chicago-Kent’s Center for Open Government,
Chicago Journalists Association…

Check out what Ken Davis, the Headline Club’s VP/Programs, is doing:
http://blogs.vocalo.org/feder/2010/09/daley-news-jump-starts-ken-davis’-‘chicago-newsroom’/36437