When: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Where: Columbia College, 33 E. Congress Pkwy. (corner of Wabash and Congress), 1st floor
Time: 5:30 pm networking, 6 pm forum begins
Facilitator: Richard Steele, WBEZ  Radio
You’ve seen the statistics: There are currently 123,000 Chicago Public Schools students who attend what have been characterized as underperforming schools-schools that are not preparing them for [...]

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The Lucas Film Presents…
Double Victory – a documentary of the Tuskegee Airmen on Wednesday November 2, 2011.
A post movie discussion will be moderated by BET’s Ed Gordon.

NABJ Chicago offers an enlightening forum on Black radio. Are we losing ground in ownership and programming authority? These are just a few of the issues to be discussed at NABJ Chicago’s radio forum moderated by Chicago radio luminary Richard Steele.

Come meet actress, director and playwright Regina Taylor on Feb. 7 as she talks about the opening of her Trinity River Plays at the Goodman Theatre!

What’s coming up next in journalism? That’s an important question our members constantly consider as they plot career paths. NABJ-Chicago has gathered those behind some of our city’s latest twists on traditional media, spanning TV to the Web. They will share their journeys, and the lessons and challenges of a start-up.
Come join us for light [...]

Thanks to all who joined NABJ-Chicago for our first-ever “minute-to-win-it” power networking sessions, moderated by the Chicago Defender’s Kathy Chaney, at Bar Novo on June 16.  Our guests crowded the swanky bar for a highly productive meet-and-greet with one another and high-powered journalists including Chicago Sun-Times’ Mary Mitchell, Multimedia Entertainment reporter for NBCChicago.com and  [...]

Thanks to all who made our Feb. 18 meeting a success!  Members of NABJ-Chicago and our guests gathered at  Red Kiva in the West Loop to discuss media coverage of, and raise money for,  Haiti.
We would like to thank our panelists and guests for an invigorating, important conversation.
-Moderator: Prof. Stephanie Shonekan of Columbia College
-State Senator [...]

The Africa Channel
WHAT: NABJ-Chicago’s November 2009 Meeting
WHEN: Thursday, November 5,2009 from 6p.m.–8p.m. (Presentation begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.)
TOPIC: THE AFRICA CHANNEL
WHERE: Red Kiva, 1108 West Randolph, Chicago, where many music performances and interviews are taped for The African Channel.

The Africa Channel is the first mainstream television network in the U.S. that [...]

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