Media Notes MEDIA AWARDS KETC (Channel 9) The station received six Emmy Award nominations from the Mid-America chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for programs of community engagement. Staff members who received nominations include Jim Kirchherr, Ruth Ezell, Tino Wallenda, Anne-Marie Berger and Brian Holder. Martin Duggan was inducted into…
It’s official. The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted 5-4 to shut down the Journalism School. This leaves a number of questions and media throughout Colorado are working on the answers to those questions. What happens to the J-School students? Was this closing necessary? The four dissenting voters expressed their opinion in this open…
The following is the complete speech by Linda Greenhouse, presented at the James Millstone Memorial Lecture in St. Louis on April 6, 2011. A story in the New York Times about a dispute involving the Fox News Channel described Fox News as “a channel with a reputation for having a conservative point of view in…
The Chicago Headline Club – the largest local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the country – announced the winners of its 2010 Lifetime Achievement Awards. Veteran Chicago journalists Roger Ebert, Richard C. Longworth and Elizabeth Brackett will be honored for their extraordinary work in Chicago journalism at the 34th annual Peter Lisagor…
