Lots of chatter yesterday, again, about The Future, some of it precipitated by the bankruptcy filing of Sun-Times Media Group. I wound up being one of the chatterers, on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. Regrettably, I didn’t get to use my fun fact of the day: that the 5th and 6th largest […]
Medill
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
(Press release, Feb. 24, 2009) Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Media Management Center (MMC) will offer a unique master’s degree track starting this fall tailored to media professionals who want to retool and broaden their skills to meet the challenges of the digital age.