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.


(A version was originally published in Pietisten, Summer 2000) By Owen Youngman Homebound families are all alike; but every traveling family tends to travel in its own way. (I would suppose that this is no longer true in the era of the back-seat VCR-outfitted television and the backlit full-color GameBoy, since […]

Roadside remembrances


(“Inside Chicago Tribune,” Jan. 17, 2000) The Chicago Tribune is having the last laugh when it comes to one of the more ignominious chapters in the newspaper’s storied history. Who can forget that infamous headline “Dewey Defeats Truman”? Certainly not the general public, and certainly not Editorial. “Fears raised by […]

‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ still making headlines