Jim Slusher
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Reporting skills play key role in news photographyJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - News stories are born in many different ways. Some just occur. Wars. Floods. Pestilence. Crimes, On rare occasions in Chicago, major professional sports championships. S...
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‘Hot off the presses’ takes on new meaningJul 21, 2011 4:00 am - Random thoughts: Ÿ Editors at the Daily Herald begin every day with a question from Executive Editor Madeleine Doubek: “What will people in the suburbs be talking about ...
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Disaster coverage focuses on usefulnessJul 14, 2011 3:00 am - If a heat wave during the past week caused the deaths of 32 county residents, where do you think the story should run in the local newspaper? In the Cook County Herald —...
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Blagojevich story obscures some serious businessJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - It’s hard for me to think of Rod Blagojevich as anything but a creature of the news media. Is that why I feel so sorry for him and his family? Not that justice wasn’t do...
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We report, but sometimes only hope you careJun 22, 2011 12:00 am - “To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear.” #8212; Jeremiah 6:10 Complain...
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Pride, solidarity for newspaper in a time of tragedyMay 25, 2011 12:00 am - Publisher Michael Beatty probably wasn’t surprised. I know he is proud. And I don’t even know him. Or any of the reporters, editors and photographers, pressmen, artists ...
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A personal brush with the callous red-light camera lawMay 18, 2011 1:00 am - To some people, $100 is a lot of money. I, alas, am one of those people. So when, having videoed my car making what it alleged to be an illegal right turn on red, the Ci...
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Bin Laden photo debate is about life as well as deathMay 11, 2011 12:00 am - When it comes to Osama bin Laden, we should think as much about the pictures we see as about the ones we don’t see. Here’s what I mean: I listened this week to an engagi...
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It takes a local touch to bring a global story homeMay 04, 2011 12:00 am - “This,” said Executive Editor Madeleine Doubek to a meeting of Daily Herald editors planning stories for Tuesday's editions on the killing of Osama bin Laden, “is one of...
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One news source still respects rational thoughtApr 27, 2011 12:00 am - What is it about human nature that so makes us want to accept conspiracy theories about obvious falsehoods? Paul McCartney is dead ... Tupac Shakur is alive ... Fluo...