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Media News, Midwest, News

Southern Illinois paper breaks story in print about state cancelling Confederate Railroad band. It still goes viral.

  • By Jackie Spinner
  • July 16, 2019

Just days before the 4th of July holiday, the DuQuoin Weekly in Southern Illinois got a tip that the.

Media News, Midwest, News

Waterloo paper’s early adoption of email newsletter sets it apart

  • By Jackie Spinner
  • July 9, 2019

The Waterloo Republic-Times in southwestern Illinois launched its email “News Flash” in 2012, just as many of the large.

News, Opinion

‘I learned how to drive this summer’

  • By Christina Samuels
  • July 9, 2019

I was almost 19 during my first newspaper internship in the summer of 1990. I had a driver’s license,.

Media News, Midwest, News

Exit of Illinois’ longest-serving investigative reporting duo signals end of an era at the Belleville News-Democrat

  • By Ian Karbal
  • July 2, 2019

It was a hell of a way to go out. In their final investigation for the Belleville News-Democrat, one.

Media News, Midwest, News

Worth a thousand words: How photojournalists are changing the way they capture migrant life

  • By Marin Scott
  • June 25, 2019

The body of a small boy lies face down on the wet sand, the cold water lapping around him..

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