Category: Magazine Issues

Medill celebrates the Class of 2023 and highlights some unique student experiences along with rising starts from each of our programs. 

Medill wraps up the Centennial with a special issue dedicated to celebrating programs and projects made possible through alumni giving.

In this issue, we celebrate Medill’s Centennial with a narrative timeline and archival photos.

In this issue, we share innovation updates from:

• Evanston
• Chicago
• Washington, D.C.
• San Francisco
• Qatar

We also look forward to 2021 as we prepare to celebrate Medill’s Centennial.

In this issue, we hear from recently appointed Medill Dean Charles Whitaker as he takes the reins and becomes the ninth dean of our school.

Additional highlights include:

• Medill Hall of Achievement: In May 2019, we inducted five new members.
• Jeffrey Zucker Scholarships: Two new funds aim to foster the next generation of journalists.
• Medill Women in Marketing Panel: Panel event with female alumni provides career advice.
• Thinking Clearly About MarTech: Course in San Francisco helps students ask the right MarTech questions.
• Medillian Travel Writers: Alumni work in travel-focused positions that encourage others to explore the world.
• An American Summer: Faculty member Alex Kotlowitz sheds light on new book.

In this issue, we share stories about how our millennial alumni give back to Medill. We highlight Corinne Chin (BSJ13, MSJ13), Antonia Cereijido (BSJ14) and Hannah Gebresilassie (MSJ16) who came back to campus in fall 2018 to speak to students and faculty about their careers and Medill experiences.

Additional highlights include:

• Don E. Schultz Scholarship: John Christensen (MSJ80) makes $1M commitment to this scholarship, opening doors for IMC  graduate students to attend Medill.
• Covering the Pittsburgh Shooting: Alexis Wainwright (MSJ17)  reflects on how Medill prepared her to cover the October shooting.
• Beyond the Fundamentals: IMC programs in London and San Francisco inspire students to think globally.
• Faces of 2018: Each Medill graduate has a unique experience and we share some of their stories.
• IMC Immersion Quarter: In their fourth quarter, IMC full-time students participate in the Immersion Quarter program, working to solve a marketing challenge or issue.
• Power of a Story: Chris Rathje (IMC05) heads up the National Wheelchair Basketball Association’s Junior Division.

In this issue, we share photos from Medill’s global courses for undergraduate journalism, graduate journalism and integrated marketing communications master’s students.

Additional highlights include:

• Dean Brad Hamm’s six years of success: Dean Hamm leaves the school primed for further success thanks to a long list of accomplishments.
• Don Schultz celebrates 40 years at Medill: Medill celebrates Don Schultz, IMC professor emeritus-in-service, for his 40 years of teaching and service.
• Medill Hall of Achievement Class of 2018: Medill congratulates the 2018 Hall of Achievement inductees.
• Stacy Steponate and Mike Greenberg Scholarship: New scholarship helps students in need access the best journalism training.
• Freedom in Journalism: Austin’s Texas Tribune is changing the journalism landscape for the better.

In this issue, we share photos from an event co-hosted by Medill and The New York Times in which Medill alumnus John Eligon (BSJ04) interviewed the host of “The Daily Show,” Trevor Noah.

Additional highlights include:

• Human-Centered Design: Kate Garmey (IMC06) takes technology and innovation experience to Northwestern’s San Francisco campus.
• Finding Their Tribe: Northwestern alums create a media platform with the goal of shifting the narrative about black people in Chicago.
• James L Mateja Memorial Scholarship, Fostering Journalistic Growth: This undergraduate scholarship honors automotive journalist James L. Mateja.
• Beginning the Medill Student Adventure: Wildcat Days give admitted undergraduate journalism students the chance to see what the Medill experience is like.
• Breaking Balls: Gail Shister (MSJ75) learned tough lessons about working as a female sportswriter in the 1970s and 1980s.

We profile recent graduates to learn about their Medill experience, where they’re headed and how Medill helped them get there.

Recent research by Spiegel Research Center sheds light on whether paid or owned media is more effective.

Take a look inside Pacific Standard to see how two Medill alumni are redesigning the magazine for the readers.

Global trips are now a pillar of the Medill experience for both undergraduate and graduate students.  In February and March 2017, 195 Medill students traveled domestically and to nine countries to report on such topics as the arts, sports media, the environment, social justice and youth in society.