Congratulations to NABJ-Chicago President Kathy Chaney on winning the Martin Luther King Award this past weekend for community leaders making a difference! They now know what we know: You rock, Madame President!...
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[caption id="attachment_655" align="aligncenter" width="748"] 2015 Studs Terkel Award winners Maudelyne Ihejirika, Sun-Times Asst. City Editor and DNA Info reporter Darryl Holliday[/caption] From Community Media Workshop release: For more than two decades, the Studs Terkel Community Media Awards have honored outstanding media professionals for excellent work in covering...
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Mayoral Candidates Address Issues Impacting Chicago's African-American Community CHICAGO (February 11, 2015) – The National Association of Black Journalists Chicago Chapter and Columbia College Association of Black Journalists student chapter tonight hosted the last Chicago mayoral forum prior to the February 24th election. The forum featured all five mayoral candidates, who addressed an...
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After 27 years with public radio WBEZ FM 91.5, show host and correspondent Richard Steele will retire on October 10 from his full-time position. Richard will not leave the air completely: He will continue to host his popular weekly talk show, “The Barber Shop Show.” The...
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NABJ-Chicago congratulates veteran WGN-9 news anchor and reporter Bob Jordan, who is now the first journalist-in-residence in University of Chicago’s Careers in Journalism, Arts, and Media program. In addition to his full-time on-air job, Bob will now be seen on the Hyde Park campus of the world-renowned university, where he...
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[caption id="attachment_442" align="alignright" width="374"] Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John White talks to admirers at the opening reception of his exhibit at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery. (Photo Credit: Dorothy Tucker)[/caption] Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery unveiled “Faith, Focus, Flight: A John H. White Retrospective,” during an opening reception on...
Read MoreTerrell Brown, who signed off last week after five years as a CBS News correspondent, is on his way to WLS-Channel 7 as the ABC-owned station’s anchor of the future. Brown starts April 14 as a general assignment reporter and contributing anchor. “We’re tremendously excited to...
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