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.
Murray Perahia (Ismael Roldan, WSJ) We were in Kalamazoo tonight to hear the pianist Murray Perahia play a monster recital that included Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata and concluded with Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Handel.”  As it happens, the Journal ran an interview with him in this morning’s paper; quotes […]

I got a pal in Kalamazoo. Several more than before, in fact

As I was shelving 16-plus years of Wired magazines on the shelves in my office at Medill today, I saw plenty of memorable cover stories … and, in some remarkably thick back numbers from the late 1990s, plenty of evidence of memorable ads for forgotten Internet startups. Rather than be […]

Ask a Flowchart: Which Blowhard Am I? [Wired]