Chicago Police Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy speaks at the event "Shattered Lens: A Citizen's Right to Film", held January 25th at Loyola University, and sponsored by the Chicago Headline Club and The McCormick Foundation. Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director at the Reporter's Commit...
Enter the Peter Lisagor Awards Online! It's time to enter your best work from 2011 in the Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism! The awards will be given out May 4 at the Union League Club of Chicago. The Chicago Headline Club is accepting entries online for the first time this year.&n...
Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to you … Hope your holidays are/were bright! All of them! Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, Winter Solstice, Saturnalia or any other holiday of your choice. And may your New Year be the best ever! Watch for Lisagor information soonest … Your mail in ...
Headline Club Applauds Judge’s Decision We are grateful that U.S. District Judge James Zagel respected Reporter’s Privilege in ruling that reporters for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times need not turn over notes of interviews with a juror who apparently concealed her criminal ...
“This was all about access, at least at the beginning,” said Frank Main, who with Mark Konkol and John S. Kim won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for the Chicago Sun-Times. They wanted to be a “fly on the wall” to explain to the public, “Am I safer now than I wa...
This is the way it went. The momentum just kept building. First they talked about what the black news media does in Chicago and what you need to do if you want to get your story told. Then they talked about what’s news and what matters and then the hands went up in the room Tuesday night at th...
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein was looking at fatal police shootings in Chicago, and so he began with a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) to the Chicago Police Department. It quickly became a lesson for Lowenstein, a reporter for Hoy, a daily Spanish-language newspaper, in the difficulty reporters ...
An individual of huge stature came through twice for the good of the Chicago Headline Club: Arthur C. Nielsen Jr., who died Oct. 3 at 92. Each time, his gifts were because of friendship begun as a teenager with Les Brownlee, CHC president in 1989-90. A CHC loyalist throughout his...
Opening Doors Every public official we asked to join us, did so. We filled the room. We batted questions and answers back and forth about the state of freedom of information for journalists. Tough questions especially. Most important of all, we reminded each other that this needs to be the first...
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