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  • WATCH Newstown: Medill Professor’s Documentary on the Closing of the Youngstown Vindicator

    When Northwestern University professor and video journalist Craig Duff heard that the 150-year-old Youngstown Vindicator was closing, he resolved to go back to the area where he grew up in northeast Ohio and document how the community was coping with the loss of its newspaper. What the veteran of CNN, Time.com and The New York Times learned is that people from inside and outside of Youngstown were determined to take action to keep the public...

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  • What We’ve Learned About News Consumer Behavior: 5 Videos

    Northwestern University’s Spiegel Research Center is conducting groundbreaking research using large data sets on consumer behavior. Spiegel’s study of 13 terabytes of data from the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and Indianapolis Star has been one of the major achievements of the Medill Local News initiative, which was formed in the Spring of 2018 to help the news industry find financial sustainability. Spiegel is part of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications....

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  • Global Seminar on Local News: Videos of the Sessions Medill and Germany’s Adenauer Foundation Highlight Journalists’ Challenges Worldwide

    Here are videos from June 25, 2019, sessions of the Global Seminar on Local News, co-sponsored by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and Germany’s Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA foundation. The sessions were held at Medill’s facility in downtown Chicago. Part 1: The state of play for local news in the U.S. and abroad, with data on audience behaviors and attitudes. Speakers/panelists: Tim Franklin, Amy Mitchell, Joy Jenkins, Ed Malthouse, Idalmy Carrera-Colucci, Pana Janviroj Part 2: How...

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