MEDILL ALUMNI 2025
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Christian Grönroos to receive 2025 Don Schultz Award
The recipient of the 2025 Don Schultz award for Innovation in Teaching, Theory and Practice of Integrated Marketing Communications. Grönroos is a pioneering scholar in
MY MEDILL STORY
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
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Tom Germuska (BSJ62)
Thomas Allen Germuska, Sr., 84, retired communications consultant, formerly of Palatine, passed away unexpectedly on February 12, 2025 at home in Rolling Meadows, IL. Born in Cleveland, Tom graduated from
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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
