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.

Some of my Twitterfied friends took this literally, not noticing that when it showed up online here in the U.S., it was already April 1 across the pond.  Anyway, the tone is just right. Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink | Media | The Guardian .

Poisson d’avril! [Guardian]


Monday is the first day of the spring term at Northwestern.  It will have been four months, exactly, since I went out to pasture after 37 years at Tribune Tower. There has been a lot to think about, watching the news industry from the outside since Thanksgiving.  Ultimately, I suspect […]

The pasture is prologue


How Times Have Changed [Or Not] In Response to New Media, installment 14,441: Obama explaining why he decided to have a live Internet video chat:  “This is an experiment,” the president said in a video promoting the event, “but it’s also an exciting opportunity for me to look at a […]

whitehousechatroom.gov, then and now