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Northwestern University's Medill School (often just called Medill) is one of the premier journalism, integrated marketing, and media schools in the United States. The Medill School 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 journalism program offers Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. The Integrated Marketing Communications program offers a master's degree over five quarters with concentrations in advertising, public relations, and direct, database and e-commerce marketing. Medill's undergraduate journalism curriculum requires students to engage in a broad liberal arts education as well as the study and practice of journalism. A "Medill F" of 0 is received[clarification needed] when a student makes a factual error on a story, serving notice to students of the importance of correct information in the news media. The "Medill F" can be given for something as simple as misspelling a name or title, or disregard for AP style. Medill undergraduates participate in a journalism residency for one quarter in their junior or senior year, during which they intern in a professional newsroom. Numerous media outlets across the United States—and in some cases, overseas—have participated in this program. Medill graduate students work as beat reporters in Medill newsrooms in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
[edit] Medill Innocence ProjectThe Medill Innocence Project began in 1999 as an effort by Medill faculty and students to reinvestigate murder convictions in Illinois and determine if people were wrongly convicted. This effort has helped to free 11 innocent men. The project is currently involved in a dispute with the Cook County state's attorney over the handling of the Anthony McKinney case.[1][2] The project was also involved in the overturning of Anthony Porter's conviction. [edit] Medill News Service - ChicagoMedill 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, health and science issues and the arts and sports. [edit] Medill News Service - Washington, D.C.Every Medill News Service journalist has the opportunity to spend a quarter in a Washington covering 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-TV, Bismarck, N.D.; KMID, Midland, Texas; KNOE, Monroe, La.; KTKA, Topeka, Kan.; In Montana: KAJ, KBZK, KHLH, KPAX-TV, KRTV, KTVQ and KXLF; KVLY-TV and 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, based in Jefferson City, Missouri; KAJX-FM, Aspen, Colo.; WATD-FM, Marshfield, Mass.; WHO, Des Moines, Iowa, WLIU-FM, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.; WTOP-AM, Washington, D.C. [edit] "Quotegate" ControversyIn a Feb. 11, 2008 column[3] written for the Daily Northwestern, Medill senior David Spett questioned the use of anonymous sources by Dean John Lavine in a letter Lavine wrote for Medill's alumni magazine. Lavine attributed a quote praising a Medill marketing class to "a Medill junior" in the class. Spett reportedly called all 29 students enrolled in the class, including all five Medill juniors, and according to Spett, all denied saying the quote. Lavine denied fabricating the quote in a Feb. 20 email to students, but expressed regret for what he called "poor judgment" in not keeping his notes. The so-called "Quotegate" controversy was the focus of stories, columns and editorials in local and national media, including the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Washington Post and Editor & Publisher. [edit] Notable alumni
[edit] The Medill Hall of Achievement[edit] References
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