Illinois’ ‘independent’ news network publishes pro-Rauner propaganda
‘Hyperlocal’ news written from afar This report is the work of an investigative reporting class in the School of Journalism……
Author: William Recktenwald
The view from the Harrisburg Hardees
The local paper looks a lot different to Harrisburg, Ill. residents Karen and David Stilley than to fellow residents Mike……
Reporting local news from thousands of miles away
The journalists’ beats are small Illinois towns. But the reporters live, work and write in Idaho, Texas, Oregon and British……
Impact of Mirage series still felt 35 years later
On Jan. 8, 1978, the first of a 25-part investigative series published by the Chicago Sun-Times about corruption in Chicago hit the newsstands. Thirty-five years have passed, but the series is still talked about – not so much as to what was reported, but how it was reported, and its impact not on the crooks that were exposed, but on reporting methods.