Founded as St. Louis Journalism Review in 1970
In 2009, when a prosecutor went to court to force David Protess to release information compiled by journalism students working on his famous Innocence Project, Northwestern University and the Medill School of Journalism came to the defense of the popular, pugnacious professor. After all, Protess had made the school famous for having helped free 12 men who had been wrongfully convicted, including five from death row.
News media in Wisconsin take for granted that the state capital city of Madison will be the site of medium-sized protests, late-night legislative antics and accusations of gubernatorial power grabs. While many of those fights over the last few decades were over substantive issues, it was still not the type of doings that energizes large crowds.
The dynamic and sometimes tragic Vietnam War protests in Madison that many older reporters had covered early in their career – and middle-aged reporters studied in school – had a “remember when” air to them. Hearing about the Vietnam era in 2010 was like hearing about the Great Depression in 1970. You got the importance, but looked for current relevance.
I was taught in my graduate class that journalists and public relations (PR) professionals share a love-hate relationship. I experienced……
I chose to enter the journalism school for my bachelor’s degree at Southern Illinois University Carbondale because it felt like……
Almost 25 years ago, when I emerged from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University with a……