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George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop Fellows Announced for 2025 Session
Ten writers have been accepted into this year’s George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop Medill. Medill received almost 200 workshop applications from accomplished journalists
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Kalle Kamal Eko (MSJ12): Combining Storytelling and Social Media with Humanitarian Work
Kalle Kamal Eko is the Communications and Marketing Manager for Catholic Relief Services in West Africa, where he combines storytelling with social media to amplify the organization’s humanitarian work. With
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Medill’s Fight to Save Local News
Local and regional newspapers, many of them more than 100 years old, going out of business. Broadcast media shrinking. Online startups folding after blowing through millions of dollars in initial
LEGACIES
Ferguson Elwyn Rood (MSJ56)
Ferguson Elwyn Rood, 95, formerly of Atlanta, Georgia, a distinguished pioneer in newspaper marketing and a beloved family man, passed away peacefully in Winchester, Virginia on February 24th, 2025 at
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Major survey of news consumption highlights challenges for entire industry
A sweeping, in-depth survey of the news consumption habits of Chicago-area residents by Medill researchers captures the tectonic shift to smartphone usage from television and print newspapers, and finds that
