Southern Illinois paper breaks story in print about state cancelling Confederate Railroad band. It still goes viral.
Just days before the 4th of July holiday, the DuQuoin Weekly in Southern Illinois got a tip that the country……
Author: Jackie Spinner
Jackie Spinner is the editor of Gateway Journalism Review. She is a journalism professor at Columbia College Chicago and faculty advisor to the Columbia Chronicle.
Waterloo paper’s early adoption of email newsletter sets it apart
The Waterloo Republic-Times in southwestern Illinois launched its email “News Flash” in 2012, just as many of the large legacy……
New logo represents new vision for our 50-year-old mission
Our readers may have noticed that Gateway Journalism Review has a new logo: our name with a section of the……
News Analysis: Readers want good visuals, but newsrooms keep laying off photojournalists who can deliver them
As a young photojournalist just a few years out of college, Jason Howell was finally settling down. He had a……
New statehouse bureau aims to fill gap in coverage for Illinois newspapers
Like many statehouse press corps, the one in Illinois is a fraction of what it used to be. Since the……