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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

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

The Daily Northwestern


McCormick Foundation Center, home of many classes in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Medill recently received a $1 million grant to support local news.

Medill receives $1 million grant from McCormick Foundation to support local news

July 22, 2020

The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications received a $1 million grant from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation to support local journalism. This money will be used to...

Medill lecturer Arionne Nettles. She was selected as one of nine journalists of color to receive the newly-created IRE fellowship.

Medill lecturer Arionne Nettles awarded IRE Educator of Color fellowship

July 15, 2020

Medill lecturer Arionne Nettles (Medill MSJ ‘16) was recently selected as one of nine journalists nationwide to receive the newly-created Educator of Color Fellowship from journalism nonprofit Investigative...

Medill Dean Charles Whitaker interviews 60 Minutes correspondent John Dickerson as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival on June 24, 2020. Dickerson discussed his new book on the role of the United States president.

John Dickerson says we need to reimagine the presidency

June 24, 2020

The institutions of the United States, from police forces to commander in chief, are at a critical juncture, and 60 Minutes correspondent John Dickerson thinks they need change — starting by redefining...

Reporting while black: Faculty, alumni talk experiences in journalism

Reporting while black: Faculty, alumni talk experiences in journalism

June 7, 2020

Robert Samuels (Medill ’06) was reporting on anti-Trump protesters at one of the then-candidate’s 2016 campaign rallies in Louisville during the primary season for The Washington Post. As he took notes...

Editorial: Amid protests against police brutality, Northwestern administrators need to break tradition of empty statements

Editorial: Amid protests against police brutality, Northwestern administrators need to break tradition of empty statements

June 1, 2020

On May 25, George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd’s death followed that of Breonna Taylor, who was shot by police in her own apartment on March 13, and that...

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