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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

Li: Telling the small-town American story

Li: Telling the small-town American story

January 19, 2023

People from small towns know these places aren’t perfect — we have lived in them long enough to know. But there seems to be a misguided practice in American political journalism of making a pilgrimage...

Dey: Lessons from a newsroom in a pandemic

Dey: Lessons from a newsroom in a pandemic

June 5, 2022

Graduation Issue 2022 I’ve wanted to be a journalist since secondary school. I pictured maneuvering my way around a student newsroom as Rory Gilmore did in her cub reporter days. As a wide-eyed...

Illustration by Jacob Fulton

TV Therapy

November 20, 2020

While everyone else was watching “Tiger King” and coming up with Carole Baskin conspiracy theories, I rewatched “Parks and Recreation” for what might have been the 20th time. There were at least...

Burg: Women increasingly depicted better in TV than film

September 30, 2014

With Emma Watson taking a stand in front of the United Nations to promote her HeForShe campaign, Beyonce silhouetted in front of a giant flashing “FEMINIST” at the VMAs and Alison Bechdel, creator...

The Long Road to Happiness: Will they or won’t they TV couples

February 28, 2013

It’s a television standard: Pair two people together with an insane amount of chemistry and play off the sexual tension for a couple seasons. When the viewers are practically begging the writers to put...

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