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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Nettles’ event at Women and Children First featured a book reading and signing, a conversation with Block Club reporter Atavia Reed, and a Q&A with the audience.

Prof. Arionne Nettles’ book talk offers Black Chicagoans history, community

April 23, 2024

Growing up as a Black American, it was easy to feel as though she did not “have a culture,” Medill Prof. Arionne Nettles told an audience Monday at Andersonville bookstore Women & Children First....

Three panelists and one moderator are sitting on a stage with a screen reading “Literacy Project.”

News Literacy Project panelists discuss misinformation epidemic, building trust in media

January 25, 2023

If journalism is the “first rough draft of history,” how do journalists earn and maintain the trust of an often skeptical audience? At a panel moderated by CNN Correspondent Omar Jimenez, Chicago-based...

Fisk Hall pictured. A sign reading McCormick Journalism Center is set above a door and below a series of windows on a brick wall.

McCormick Foundation donates $2.4 million to Medill local news program

September 27, 2022

The Robert R. McCormick Foundation has granted $2.4 million to support and strengthen local news outlets through the Medill Local News Accelerator program, Northwestern announced Tuesday.  The donation...

The Chinatown gate with a Summer Fair poster is surrounded by people walking between tent booths.

Chicago Chinatown Summer Fair entertains local residents and NU students

August 2, 2022

Chicago’s Chinatown held its annual Summer Fair, a two-day event celebrating East Asian culture through food, shopping, art and music, this past weekend.  “It’s really encouraging having the...

Journalist Alex V. Hernandez talks during the panel held at Evanston Public Library on Monday night. Hernandez and Prof. Wendy Pearlman discussed covering refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers through storytelling.

Journalists discuss how to cover refugees, asylum seekers

May 14, 2019

In recent years, refugees and immigrants have been highly covered communities by the media — from detention centers near the border to President Donald Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban,” there has...

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