Medill School of Journalism

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The Medill School of Journalism
Official Seal of Northwestern University
Established 1921
Type A school of Northwestern University
Dean John Lavine
Undergraduates 663
Postgraduates 342
Location Evanston, Illinois, USA
Campus Evanston / Chicago (news service)
Website http://www.medill.northwestern.edu
University Medill School

Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (often just called Medill) is one of the premier journalism, integrated marketing, and media schools in the United States.

Medill was founded in 1921 and named after Joseph Medill, owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune beginning in the 1850s. For many years the school's main location was in Fisk Hall on the south end of Northwestern's campus. In fall 2002 the school opened the McCormick Tribune Center, which features a professional-grade TV studio and numerous multimedia classrooms in line with Medill's growing emphasis on new forms of media.

The infamous Medill F is received when a student makes a factual error on a story, serving notice to students of the importance of correct information in the media.

In their junior year, Medill undergraduates typically go on a teaching media experience (sometimes internationally) for one quarter where they intern in their area of interest: broadcast, magazine or newspaper. Numerous publications and media outlets across the U.S.--and in some cases, overseas--have participated in this program.

Medill graduate students work as full-time beat reporters for the Medill News Service, a wire service that operates out of newsrooms in Chicago and Washington D.C.

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[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] The Medill Hall of Achievement

Inductees

[edit] Medill News Service - Chicago

The Medill News Service - Chicago is a working news bureau in downtown Chicago that operates as part of Northwestern University's graduate journalism program at the Medill School.

Medill graduate students have been providing news coverage to client newspapers since 1995. Each quarter, approximately 40 graduate students are assigned to cover stories about city and county government, the events in state and federal courts, business and economic development and the arts and sports.

[edit] Medill News Service - Washington DC

Every Medill News Service journalist becomes a Washington correspondent for a local news outlet. They cover breaking news as-well-as in-depth, enterprise stories on politics, civil rights, energy, technology or education. Medill journalists attend congressional proceedings, press conferences, conventions and congressional hearings and connect those stories to the communities they cover -- not an insider audience.

The Medill News Service serves newspapers, Web sites, television stations and radio stations, which all pay a quarterly fee to help cover production and communications costs. Print correspondents transmit stories electronically every day. Television stories are sent by network feed or satellite, or shipped overnight, as each station requires.

Clients include:

The American Banker, Bend (Ore.) Bulletin, Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald, Durham (N.C.) Herald-Sun, The (Hanover, Pa.) Evening Sun, Florence (Ala.) Times Daily, Gadsen (Ala.) Times, Greeley (Colo.) Tribune, Imperial Valley (Calif.) Press, Island Packet (Hilton Head, S.C.), Madison (Wis.) Capital Times, Newsday (NY)--Student Briefing page, Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger, Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press, Seattle (Wash.) Times, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald Journal, St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press, The Times of Northwest Indiana, Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News, Waterbury (Conn.) Republican-American, Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, York (Penn.) Daily Record

KFYR, Bismarck, N.D., KMID, Midland, Texas, KNOE, Monroe, La., KTKA, Topeka, Kan., In Montana: KAJ, KBZK, KHLH, KPAX, KRTV, KTVQ, KXLF, KVLY, Fargo, N.D., KXJB, Fargo, N.D., WCAX, Burlington, Vt., WKYT-TV, Lexington, Ky., 6 News Lawrence, Lawrence, Kan., The Illinois Channel, Springfield, Ill., TV2, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

Brownfield Radio Network, KAJX-FM, Aspen, Colo., WATD-FM, Marshfield, Mass., WHO, Des Moines, Iowa, WLIU-FM, Long Island, N.Y., WTOP-AM, Washington, D.C.

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