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

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Medill alumna Lisa Gartner wins Pulitzer Prize for local reporting

April 20, 2016

In 2007, Lisa Gartner wrote for North by Northwestern, advising students on what to eat on a night out. In 2015, Gartner wrote for the Tampa Bay Times, investigating five failing elementary schools. ...

Medill alumni win Pulitzer Prizes for local reporting, breaking news

April 18, 2016

Lisa Gartner (Medill ‘10) won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting as part of a Tampa Bay Times team of reporters, Columbia University announced Monday. Gartner, who served as editor in chief of...

Isabel Wilkerson speaks about race relations throughout American history to a crowd of about 900 people at Evanston Township High School. Wilkerson was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in American journalism.

Author draws hundreds to speech about legacy of Great Migration at Evanston Township High School

November 17, 2015

The great American jazz musician Louis Armstrong and award-winning novelist Toni Morrison would not exist if it weren’t for the Great Migration of the 20th century, said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist...

Author Garry Wills discusses the disparity between the Catholic Churchs conservatism and its constituents increasingly liberal beliefs. He spoke about his new book, which covers this topic, as part of the Evanston Literary Festival on Wednesday night.

Pulitzer Prize winner discusses Catholic Church social changes

May 13, 2015

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author discussed Wednesday changes to the Catholic Church surrounding society’s shifting social beliefs at the Evanston Public Library. Garry Wills, a writer who primarily...

Northwestern professor John Alba Cutler discusses the importance of prizes in the Latino-American literary community at the Evanston Public Library on Thursday evening. The talk was part of a series about Latino-Americans called “Hecho in the U.S.A.,” sponsored jointly by EPL and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

Northwestern professor talks competition in Latino-American literature

May 1, 2015

A Northwestern professor spoke about the role of competition in Latino-American literature at the Evanston Public Library on Thursday evening. John Alba Cutler, an English professor who specializes...

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