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  Joseph Medill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Medill's mayoral term was from 1871 to 1873, and he ran under the unique Fireproof party (a means of bringing attention to his rebuilding efforts after the Chicago Fire).
Medill's country estate in Wheaton, Illinois, which was later occupied by his grandson, Robert R. McCormick, who named it Cantigny, is now open to the public as a beautiful public garden, picnic area and museum for the First Division of the US Army [1] [2].
The Medill School of Journalism, one of the many schools that compose Northwestern University, and one of the top journalism schools in the United States, is named after Joseph Medill.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Medill   (508 words)

  
 Medill School of Journalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (often just called Medill) is one of the premier journalism, integrated marketing, and media schools in the United States.
Medill was founded in 1921 and named after Joseph Medill, owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune beginning in the 1850s.
A "Medill F" is received when a student makes a factual error on a story, serving notice to students of the importance of correct information in the media.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medill_School_of_Journalism   (779 words)

  
 Medill School of Journalism, UACC, Northwestern University
Students of the Medill School of Journalism have entered a community of scholarship and journalism where academic integrity is of the highest importance.
Medill will impose sanctions in all cases involving students who are candidates for Medill's undergraduate and graduate degrees, regardless of the school at Northwestern University in which the academic dishonesty occurred.
If a student from another school is alleged to have been academically dishonest in a Medill course, the Medill School of Journalism determines whether academic dishonesty has occurred (and the teacher of record determines the grade the student will receive in the course).
www.northwestern.edu /uacc/medilpol.html   (1577 words)

  
 University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism Library - Other Journalism Schools, Journalism Libraries and News Libraries
E.W. Scripps School of Journalism - Ohio University
The School of Journalism at Michigan State University is known for its excellence in preparing students for careers in the communication industry.
The School has done this is in two distinct ways: by providing the finest journalism education in the world and by serving as the persistent conscience of the profession.
mulibraries.missouri.edu /Journalism/jschool.html   (1829 words)

  
 Medill School of Journalism, Office of Undergraduate Admission - Northwestern University
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism has prepared students for rewarding and dynamic careers in the news media since 1921, teaching journalists to "write boldly and tell the truth fearlessly," as early Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill put it.
At Medill, a broad base of course work in the liberal arts is considered essential training for a journalist.
Medill students complete at least 45 courses for a bachelor of science in journalism degree.
ugadm.northwestern.edu /freshman/academics/medill.htm   (492 words)

  
 schools-of-journalism
An informal survey done by the Columbia Journalism Review too supports this claim and shows that in the last decade there has been a steady rise in number of Journalism Schools (or J Schools as they are popularly called) in almost all the countries of the world.
Some of the best journalism schools in the world are in the United States of America, a country renowned globally for its free and democratic press.
The department of journalism at the Indiana University began functioning from 1932 and the school of journalism was established as late as 1974.
www.chillibreeze.com /articles/schools-of-journalism.asp   (1417 words)

  
 Journalism Schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
School of Journalism / Department of Telecommunications (outside the j-school)
The annual surveys conducted by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
In 2000, the journalism/communications schools with the largest number of undergraduate students enrolled were (in order) the University of Texas at Austin, Penn State, the University of Florida, and Middle Tennessee State.
mindy.mcadams.com /jaccess/schools.html   (416 words)

  
 Initiative on the Future of Journalism
Offering degrees in journalism and communication, USC Annenberg is also home to path-breaking research and professional education projects, including the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, the Center for Communication Law and Policy, the Center for Journalism and Democracy and the Norman Lear Center, which focuses on the convergence of entertainment, commerce and society.
Its schools and programs consistently rank in the top tier of their fields and its research centers are at the vanguard of groundbreaking discoveries and achievements.
The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley encourages students to gain a broad understanding of current affairs and develop expertise in specialized subjects along with traditional journalism practices.
newsinitiative.org /initiative/participants.html   (1080 words)

  
 Journalism loses director to NWU
Ghiglioni is the director of the School of Journalism, under the Annenberg banner; Patricia Riley is the director of the School of Communications, also under Annenberg.
Although Ghiglioni's experience is with print journalism, he plans to develop all programs in the school with equal effort and force.
We had an outside evaluation of the school and were rated among the top six schools in the country.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V142/N17/01-journalism.17c.html   (880 words)

  
 JournalismNext.com Discussion Board Forums - Journalism School the best way to get ahead?
Medill's placement rate is something like 80-90% if I recall, which is truly excellent, so I'm very confident I'll be getting a job right out of college.
All students at the Medill school are required to do a for-credit internship, so, no, it's not all classroom work.
While there is the insecure oddball or two at Medill with an overblown sense of self-regard and who suffers from delusions of grandeur, I can vouch that most students are not like this one.
www.journalismnext.com /forums/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=20&STARTPAGE=2   (2524 words)

  
 Medill School of Journalism - Northwestern University - In-Depth Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Global journalism, offered as an additional (fifth) quarter, is available to those interested in practicing journalism outside the U.S. in the form of residencies at news organizations in nearly every continent.
Medill is looking to the future of journalism and communications, which demands critical thinking and interdisciplinary work in addition to practical training.
Professor of Journalism at Emory; former director, USC Annenberg School of Journalism.
www.petersons.com /gradchannel/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=729106-1&inunId=50583&typeVC=ProgramVC&sponsor=1   (1834 words)

  
 Journalism - Areas of Support   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On October 7, 2002, the McCormick Tribune Center was dedicated at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois.
The center is a state-of-the-art $17.5 million facility for Medill's journalism and integrated marketing communications programs, with multimedia classrooms, broadcast studios and a 150-seat theater for public affairs programs.
For decades, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism has been one of the shaping forces in journalism around the country.
www.rrmtf.org /journalism/mtfcenter.htm   (517 words)

  
 Poynter | The Chicago Tribune Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Patricia Troumpoucis is a 22-year-old graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism.
Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism,- Evanston, IL Candidate for Masters of Science in Journalism, June 2000.
Medill awards this scholarship annually to a graduate student who shows promise in the field of investigative reporting.
www.poynterextra.org /centerpiece/031501Chicago/klane.html   (465 words)

  
 Teaching Online Journalism: News21 project: Worth it or not?
Students from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California completed reporting projects, and these are now online.
I was multimedia coordinator for the Medill School of Journalism's portion of the project.
At Medill, students conceptualized and planned out two ambitious interactive pieces (Digital Trails and Government Data Mining) that we hired a Flash/database development firm to design and implement under the students' supervision.
tojou.blogspot.com /2006/09/news21-project-worth-it-or-not.html   (1406 words)

  
 MedillNewsDC.com | Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Medill News Service asked political experts to put their cards on the table for Tuesday’s big gamble.
Medill students were lead reporters for Web coverage of the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Washington.
Even as schools grow safer every year the, number of students who have missed school because they feel unsafe is growing.
www.medillnewsdc.com   (468 words)

  
 MedillNewsDC.com | Covering Conflicts and Terrorism
Ellen Shearer, professor in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, is assistant dean and co-director of the Medill School of Journalism's Washington Program, Medill News Service, which has as clients more than 40 newspapers, Web sites and TV and radio stations.
Prior to becoming co-director of Medill News Service, Shearer was an editor at Newhouse News Service in Washington, where she edited stories from Newhouse national staff and the company's newspapers for distribution on the Newhouse wire.
She also is a member of the American Association of Educators of Journalism and Mass Communication, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Journalism and Women Symposium, the International Women's Media Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Press Club; she serves on the Press Club's Scholarships Committee.
www.medillnewsdc.com /covering_conflicts_shear.shtml   (905 words)

  
 Medill News Service : Chicago
The Medill News Service is a working news bureau in downtown Chicago that operates as part of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism's graduate program.
It is a region of 51 towns and cities, each with its own government and schools, each with unique opportunities and problems.
Chicago Parent is widely regarded as one of the best local parenting publications in the nation, and wins numerous national awards for its editorial content and design every year from judges at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and the University of Missouri at Columbia.
mesh.medill.northwestern.edu /mnschicago/clients.htm   (643 words)

  
 Medill - Northwestern University
The mission of the Medill School of Journalism is to provide rigorous professional education and training for a full range of positions in news, information and commercial communications, to lead thought in the field of journalism and to assist its students in finding employment.
The school enhances student knowledge of the environment of journalism, media ethics and the role of the media in a diverse society.
Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University 1845 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208-2101 (847) 467-1882 Last updated 12/29/06
www.medill.northwestern.edu /medill/index.html   (232 words)

  
 Bylines | School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Duncan, who started out in education as a high school teacher in Indiana, said he has always been interested in curriculum development as evidenced by a national curriculum commission that he put together in 1965 to help improve journalism instruction in secondary schools.
Duncan said his concept of IMC was heavily influenced by an Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national advertising and PR task force that he co-chaired in the early 1990s.
Throughout the years, Moriarty has been on several accrediting trips to other schools around the nation and said the CU School is at a disadvantage because of its building.
www.colorado.edu /Journalism/bylines/spring05/facultynews/retire.html   (1073 words)

  
 David Abrahamson's Home Page
David Abrahamson of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208; (847) 467-4159, fax (847) 332-1088.
The founder of Medill's Literary Journalism seminar, he also teaches magazine writing and magazine editing and was co-director of the graduate Magazine Publishing Project from 1994 to 2002.
Beyond Medill, he is the general editor of a multi-volume historical series, "Visions of the American Press," published under the Medill imprint by the Northwestern University Press, and served as the director of the Northwestern University Center for the Writing Arts from 2002 to 2006.
abrahamson.medill.northwestern.edu   (501 words)

  
 Carnegie Corporation - The Corporation's Program
Northwestern's schools and programs stand as models of excellence, including the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the Kellogg School of Management, the Medill School of Journalism, the School of Law and the School of Communication.
The Medill School of Journalism was founded in 1921 and named for Chicago Tribune editor, publisher and owner Joseph Medill.
The school of 1,000 students offers an undergraduate journalism program and a one-year graduate program leading to a Master of Science in Journalism.
www.carnegie.org /sub/program/initiative-medill.html   (298 words)

  
 Journalism students ask: Why am I here? | csmonitor.com
In journalism graduate school, she says, content was held in higher esteem than style.
Nearly a century after the first journalism school opened in 1908, schools are in flux - Columbia University's vaunted program, where Saucier earned her degree, is in the final stages of an overhaul.
Bolstered by a larger demographic shift in the numbers of students attending graduate school, last year students earning master's in journalism and mass communication hit an all-time high of 11,703, according to an annual survey by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
www.csmonitor.com /2004/1026/p12s01-legn.html   (1285 words)

  
 CJR July/August 2006 - The Magician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lavine was handpicked to lead Medill after the school had weathered a fairly rocky stretch under his predecessor, Loren Ghiglione, a veteran newspaperman and, before coming to Medill in 2001, the director of the University of Southern California’s journalism program.
The Medill faculty is now trying to answer some of those questions as it begins to piece together the school’s new curriculum, which will be in place for the 2007-2008 academic year.
The journalism business is indeed in the middle of a profound transition, and there is no shortage of anxiety among reporters and editors about who and what will be left standing when the transition is complete.
www.cjr.org /issues/2006/4/schulman.asp   (3878 words)

  
 Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Donations may be sent to Ginny Carroll Memorial, c/o Brian Utley, Director of Development, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, 2020 Ridge Ave., Evanston, IL 60208.
The Winston-Salem Journal hired Hunter as women’s page editor, and a short time later the paper moved her back to Raleigh, where she covered five sessions of the General Assembly, including the last session in the old capitol building.
A firm believer in the watchdog function of the press, Hunter gained some notoriety for a 1955 incident in which she challenged the Appropriations Committee’s right to convene in closed session and had to be carried from the room while sitting in her chair.
www.jomc.unc.edu /carolinacommunicator/archives/july2001/obituaries.html   (685 words)

  
 Institute for Investigative Journalism | Brandeis University
Pamela Cytrynbaum is the Associate Director of the Brandeis Institute for Investigative Journalism.
She was director of the Snowden Internship Program and coordinator of the UO Minority High School Journalism Summer Workshop.
’s Medill School of Journalism, where she was a staff writer and summer editor for The Daily Northwestern.
www.brandeis.edu /investigate/who/cytrynbaum.html   (1397 words)

  
 Department of Journalism: Zoned for Debate
And suddenly, it seemed, all the poobahs and grand commentators on the Meaning of Journalism have gotten their knickers in a twist debating "Whither J-school?" and "What is journalism?" (or at least "What is journalism education?").
I have no idea how the Columbia search committee is considering redefining the role of their school (although I was relieved by the recent op-ed in The Times by Michael Janeway, a member of the search committee, that it wouldn't involve something called "communications studies").
The thing that surprised me when I left graduate school for journalism was how much the close-reading training I'd had in the Yale English department served me when I lucked out and became a journalist with no formal training.
journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/debate/forum.1.essay.rosenbaum.html   (2191 words)

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