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
As I got caught up in Linsanity along with everyone else, I found myself talking about Jeremy Lin with my Chinese language class, my Critical Race theory class, my Asian Pacific American History class, even at a career talk for Chinese American high school students. I finally had something to say to the little boy next door who spends his afternoons shooting hoops on the corner. Jeremy Lin applied to everything, everywhere, in equal parts good and bad, and for once, everyone—Asian American or not—was in agreement. Then I realized the person who needed Jeremy Lin the most was my eight-year-old son, Little Brother.
Written by frances 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
What’s makes the ethnic press different is that it is different. It talks to its community with news that otherwise might not get told. Here’s a good example from Extra about passing along information that can change lives. Are there other stories like this? Please pass them along. Steve@chicagoistheworld.org U-Visa: An unknown answer to many [...]
Written by Stephen on March 6, 2012
For several days in May the world will know, we hope, what we know here. We are the world living here on this big lake with the large flat plains at our back. We come from everywhere and we are Chicago. Let me explain and let me ask your advice, also. From May 19 to [...]
Written by Stephen on January 26, 2012
folks, I am writing to you about a very important change that has taken effect as a result of a new state law. As of January, all public notices in Illinois must also be listed on a website. If you do not list your public notices on this website by December 2012 you will no longer [...]
Written by Stephen on January 26, 2012
If we want to do our best, we need to be our best on our jobs. And that mean training. So, here are two workshops – sponsored by the Chicago Headline Club – next week that you don’t want to miss. 1. On Tuesday, Jan. 24th there will be a workshop looking at the latest [...]
Written by Stephen on January 19, 2012
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