Owen Youngman

About Owen Youngman

Professor Emeritus of Journalism and formerly Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Formerly senior vice president/strategy and development and director of interactive media, Chicago Tribune.
Football's the Name, Spending's the Game
The late Sun-Times columnist Sydney J. Harris was well known for an occasionally appearing column that probably would not have been nearly as resonant in the Age of Google: “Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things.” Here’s an example of one of the items in such a […]

“Watch the fake!”: Reporting and muckraking, 40 years on

In which I ask myself some questions upon entering the gates to the world of the massively open online course. Or do you say "massive open online course?"

Medill, MOOCs, and me