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.

(Written for a special edition of Tempo immediately following Gene Siskel’s death on Feb. 20, 1999.) By Owen Youngman, director of interactive media When I came to the Tribune in 1971, Gene Siskel was new enough as film critic that he was still establishing a routine. That meant I’d often […]

How Siskel became the Tribune’s film critic



PBS NewsHour visits the Tribune in the fall of 1997: "The Chicago Tribune has been one of the first newspapers to fully embrace the use of the Internet. But the paper's advertising revenue has been threatened by specialty Web sites and the technology giant Microsoft."

The Chicago Tribune enters cyberspace (PBS)