In which the students of the Fall 2009 Interactive Innovation Project at Medill illustrate, with a video, how they learned to stop worrying and love the obit.
Personal
In which I dig out my first newspaper check stub: December 16, 1969. Beethoven was turning 199, I was 16 going on 17, and boy, $1.60 an hour sure sounded good.
It was 40 years ago today
1 In which a gathering of Tribune alumni leads to discussions of philanthropy, public policy, health care, higher education, and journalism, more or less but not precisely in that order.