Storytellers often include scenes in which a detective or family member visits a room filled with work that the missing or deceased abruptly left behind. The last 15 years have been ripe with reports of newspapers disappearing and journalists vacating newsrooms. From 2004 to 2018, almost 1,800 local newspapers closed in the United States, according…
NEWS ANALYSIS The Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020 was, in some ways, a tale of 300 journalists enacting the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Held late last month in the Walnut Room of the Kimpton Allegro Hotel–famously the first place to serve alcohol in the minutes after Prohibition was repealed–the event was…
It was a compelling moment that synched with the mood of a nation obsessed with the death of desperately needed factory jobs, a small union badly battered by technology and jobs sent aboard. And it centered on a truly iconic American snack, the Oreo cookie. What lifted this union struggle from obscurity was then presidential…
Supporters of the Stars and Stripes news organization are sending a letter to members of Congress asking them to support funding of the 159 year-old institution, which was founded in Missouri in the middle of the Civil War.Kathy Kiely, Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies at the University of Missouri Graduate School, and Brian…
At a time when other newsrooms are downsizing, Dziennik Związkowy is hiring–or at least trying to. The Chicago-based, Polish-language newspaper has been publishing continuously since 1908. Called the Polish Daily News in English, Dziennik Związkowy is the largest Polish-language newspaper printed outside of Poland and the oldest continuously printed Polish newspaper in the world. But…