Jackie Spinner is a professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago, where she is faculty advisor to the Columbia Chronicle. She was a staff writer for The Washington Post for 14 years and covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is the editor of Gateway Journalism Review and the director and producer of two documentary films, Don't Forget Me and Morocco, Morocco. Morocco, Morocco aired on PBS in Chicago in 2022.
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It was big NBA news when the San Antonio Spurs signed a $229 million contract extension with star point guard De’Aaron Fox this summer. But for the San Antonio Express-News, the timing of the four-year deal was lousy: The paper’s Spurs newsletter had gone out the day before. Not long ago, the newspaper would have counted on push alerts or social media posts to draw readers to its website. But as habits shifted, newsrooms across...
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Bob Gough has worked in local news nearly his entire life, and he knows this: Everybody wants to see their kid or grandkid in the paper. The trouble is that truly local news in his western Illinois town of Quincy is getting harder to find. Starting this year, radio listeners no longer can catch the Quincy Senior High School football games on Friday nights. The legacy newspaper, the Herald-Whig, has changed hands two times since 2021...
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