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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


Before starring in “Macbeth,” Prof. Craig Duff was part of the play “Measure for Measure” with the Olde School Shakespeare Collective.

Q&A: Emmy Award-winning Prof. Craig Duff brings journalism skills to Chicago theatre scene with ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

February 23, 2025

With a resume that spans working with CNN, TIME and The New York Times, Medill Prof. Craig Duff has seemingly done it all. In 2012, he started at Northwestern as a journalism professor, while continuing...

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Red Theater’s ‘Hamlet’ embarks on poignant emotional journey

May 7, 2024

With captivating actors, an intimate black-box stage and harmonizing design elements, the Red Theater’s “Hamlet,” directed by Wyatt Kent at the Edge Theater in Edgewater, offers audiences an emotionally...

A group of four people sit on folding chairs talking. A sign above them says “Northwestern Medill.”

Medill faculty work to center diversity, equity and inclusion in and out of the classroom

May 24, 2023

Every freshman at the Medill School of Journalism learns the importance of diversity in the industry when they take the course Journalism 202: Journalism Values, Practice and Trends. Members of Medill’s...

Multimedia journalist and filmmaker Jason Motlagh speaks at a Medill event in Fisk Hall on Monday. He shared his experiences as an international crisis reporter with students.

Journalist discusses career as international crisis reporter

May 2, 2017

After earning a degree in foreign affairs, Jason Motlagh took a job in Kodiak, Alaska, as a fisherman. He was in search of an adventure, he said. This same sense of adventure led Motlagh to a career...

Brian Oakes discusses his film “Jim: The James Foley Story” alongside other panelists, including Diane Foley, James Foley’s mother, and documentarian Maria Finitzo. Oakes discussed his reasons for making the film and the messages he hopes audiences will take away from it.

At Medill screening, James Foley documentary remembers journalist’s life after horrific death

May 22, 2016

James Foley is a household name after the journalist’s execution by the Islamic State in August 2014. But Brian Oakes, one of Foley’s childhood friends, wanted him to be remembered for more than that....

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