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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


Tina Fey set to play Medill alumna, former Daily editor in chief in new movie

March 4, 2016

When Tina Fey first started taking classes at The Second City, she worked in Evanston and frequented Gigio’s Pizzeria for lunch. Now, Fey is reconnecting with the city, if not physically, then figuratively,...

Medill alumna who worked for ABC7 Chicago murdered in Belize

January 19, 2016

ABC7 Chicago executive producer Anne Swaney (Medill ’98) was found strangled to death Friday in Belize, where she was on vacation. An autopsy determined the 39-year-old executive producer of online...

Friends, colleagues mourn late Medill broadcast manager

September 11, 2014

Longtime Northwestern staff member Rich Johnson died earlier this month. He was 61.Johnson, the broadcast production manager at the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications,...

Michael Wilbon (Medill ‘80) speaks with students from the 2012 class of the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute. The program is one of several pre-college programs offered to provide education to high school students and advertise NU.

Pre-college programs educate high school students, sell Northwestern at the same time

May 30, 2013

In a little more than two weeks, most of Northwestern's more than 8,000 students will pack up their bags, clean out their dorm rooms and head out for the summer. Two weeks later, hundreds of high school...

Medill Board of Advisers member and award-winning broadcast journalist Dillon Smith passed away Friday. A memorial mass will be held Thursday in Chicago.

Dillon Smith remembered for service to Medill, broadcast fame in Chicago

February 26, 2013

Award-winning broadcaster and Medill Board of Advisers member Dillon Smith (BSJ ’63, MSJ ’64) was a well-known editorial director at NBC Chicago, but according to longtime friend Robert Feder (BSJ...

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