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.

October, 1997: The American Press Institute creates a "Media Center," and at its Founders Conference the participants imagine what it will be like to deliver the news in the 21st Century.

A new media think tank


(Chicago Tribune house organ, June 1997) Over the last 150 years – as we’ve been hearing for at least the last 150 days – the Chicago Tribune has been able to maintain a remarkable duality of character.  Without betraying the importance of our stability and reliability to its audience, community, […]

Looking forward while looking back


From Hong Kong to Hershey (Or, I Liked the Thick Chocolate Shake More Than the Thick Soup of Snake) Originally published in Pietisten, Summer 1997 “We Chinese eat everything in the sky that is not an airplane, everything under the sea that is not a submarine, and everything on land […]

From Hong Kong to Hershey