Reporting beyond the familiar

August 17th, 2010 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

In the first of a two-part report about Chicago Public Radio’s Pritzker Fellowship, President and Chief Executive Officer Torey Malatia describes the limitations of niche broadcasting, the journalism challenges that motivated the fellowships and his hopes for how the fellows will change WBEZ’s newsroom. In the second part, I plan to explore the perspectives of [...]


Struggling Toward Diversity

March 13th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

Next week is spring break for IU and public school students in Bloomington.  I have heard that many students’ spring break trips to Mexico have been cancelled because of parental fears related to reports of drug-trade related violence in Mexico.  Bz came over last night for dinner and brought some mole sauce she got on [...]


TODO

I've made a calendar of Chicago events I think are interesting. You can view the calendar here or load the ical in your calendar application.

DIY Chicago and the Chicago Radicalendar have a more comprehensive list of things going on.

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