Five local reporters crowd into a large tent to listen to the Rockford mayor announce the city’s newest low-income housing development; three work for TV stations, one for the local daily newspaper and one for the alt-weekly across town. We each return to our respective newsrooms and file daily stories, including this one I wrote for the Register Star. But what about the more … [Read more...] about From competition to collaboration: How an evolving media landscape influences teamwork in the newsroom, classroom
What it’s really like to fly during the COVID-19 pandemic
After several weeks of emotional calls home, I made the difficult decision to board an airplane in late May in the midst of a global pandemic to visit my grandfather who is gracefully but steadily nearing the end of his life. I spent hours researching the various ways to travel more than 1,000 miles from Denver to my hometown in central Illinois. Should I make the … [Read more...] about What it’s really like to fly during the COVID-19 pandemic