I am frustrated and maybe you can help. I hope you can. When I first read the news accounts of six-year-old Aliyah Shell’s death, it sadly seemed like so many other news stories. A child killed by a random bullet. Police say it may be gang-related. Family, neighbors, and many others are heart-broken and outraged. [...]
Written by Stephen on March 27, 2012
Imagine heaps of suitcases piled high and everywhere. They are everything that immigrants carry. The youngsters perched on them are the face of immigration, as is the case today in Albany Park. Imagine now the stage as it darkens and now huddle as if in a boat making a trip from Central America to Mexico [...]
Written by Stephen on March 26, 2012
There was a world of music in her head growing up in Israel’s Galilee. Sting and Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. But there was also Um Khalthoum and Fairuz plus traditional and modern Bulgarian music Like a salad of a soul’s favorites, the melodies and harmonies have been mixed and melded again and again. And [...]
Written by Stephen on March 22, 2012
I’ve covered six conflicts. I’ve been splattered with others’ blood. And I’ve talked to people who have lost people they love only moments ago. And I’ve never felt comfortable doing this, covering trauma. This is the story that binds us and blinds us. The story of loss and endings. The story of trauma and, sometimes, [...]
Written by Stephen on March 22, 2012
A colleague last week had a reporting problem. He had never filed a Freedom of Information request and he knew he needed to do so to get info for a story he was working on. But he didn’t know where to begin. I offered my advice and then I added, ‘why don’t you come to [...]
Written by Stephen on March 13, 2012
Mobile news reporting workshop Times have changed and we need to get smart. I mean using your smart phone. Join us for a special workshop on smart phone reporting: 9 to noon, Thursday, April 5, 218 s. Wabash, 7th floor, Chicago, Il. You’ll learn the basics of how to use hand-held devices as a journalistic [...]
Written by Stephen on March 12, 2012
Black youths make up less than one half of the students in Chicago’s schools but they account for three out of four suspensions. That’s what I read this morning in the newspapers and I told myself this needs a follow-up. It needs a story that explains why this happens and what it means. It needs [...]
Written by Stephen on March 6, 2012
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