Vulture hedge fund can’t stop Chicago’s media ecosystem from thriving
When Alden Global Capital bought Tribune Publishing in May 2021 and slashed Chicago Tribune newsroom staff to bare bones, few……
Tag: Illinois
News Analysis: Illinois protects library books; Missouri removes them
Illinois became the first state to ban the removal of books from school and public libraries this summer. But in……
A student reporter gets the first look at Illinois’ struggling media literacy law
Illinois enacted the nation’s first public school media literacy law just shy of two years ago. Since then the press……
After COVID-19, media literacy was on a ‘back burner’
Teachers came out of the COVID-19 pandemic, then they heard about the Illinois’ media literacy requirement. Raquel Bliffen, an English……
‘Remember the Ladies’
When the great-grandmothers of today’s young women were born, women couldn’t vote. They were expected to be mothers and homemakers…….