This study explores the immediate, top-of-mind meanings audiences hold about “news.” Inspired by recent audience-centric approaches in defining news, we adopt a...

For this installment of our Buffett Q&A series profiling faculty and students in the Roberta Buffett Institute community, we spoke with Brent Huffman, Professor and Director of Documentary Journalism ...

Yukari Kane co-founded the Prison Journalism Project in 2020 with a clear goal in mind: to not only shed light on the experiences of incarcerated people across the country but empower them with the wr...

In the seventh episode of the State of Local News Podcast, host Tim Franklin—Professor, John M. Mutz Chair in Local News, and founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative—speaks with P.J. Bro...

Illinois’ only International Dark Sky Place is drawing visitors worldwide while lawmakers work to reduce light pollution.

In the sixth episode of the State of Local News Podcast, host Tim Franklin—Professor, John M. Mutz Chair in Local News, and founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative—speaks with Jim Friedl...

Illinois schools are updating policies as a new law expands cyberbullying to include AI-generated deepfakes.

Illinois farm bankruptcies climb for a third year as debt, low crop prices and trade pressures mount.

Few suburban newspapers have existed as long as the Daily Herald, founded as the Cook County Herald just seven years after the end of the Civil War.

The Trump administration has argued that TPS has become a “de facto asylum program” and that conditions in Haiti have improved enough to end the designation. It appealed the ruling to the Supreme Cour...

Illinois lawmakers advance reforms aimed at speeding payments and contracts for nonprofit providers.

Housing advocates praised funding gains this year despite the failure of Gov. Pritzker’s BUILD housing plan.

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