Articles filed under Pulling Back The Curtain
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Policy Corner: Our thoughts on pranks, bomb threats and vandalism
Oct 1, 2021 6:05 PM - Managing Editor Jim Baumann talks about the Daily Herald's position on covering pranks, vandalism and bomb threats. -
Coming Sunday: Stories that made a difference are the ones we remember most
Oct 1, 2021 11:00 AM - Editor John Lampinen provides a hint at how the Daily Herald newsroom values the stories it has reported over the years. -
Persistence and old-fashioned shoe leather found subject of 20-year-old photo
Oct 1, 2021 6:05 PM - How we got the story: Columnist Burt Constable describes how he tracked down the subject of a photo we used 20 years ago for our coverage of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. -
How we got the story: Digging for clues after helicopter emergency led to critical interview with pilot
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - How we got the story: Digging for clues after helicopter emergency in Prospect Heights led to a critical interview with the pilot. -
Behind the Curtain: Photographing Arlington Park's last Fourth of July fireworks show
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - On the eve of Independence Day, I was assigned to photograph what could be the last Fourth of July fireworks show at Arlington Park. I arrived early to scout out a location: My goal, at least for the early photos, was to have the iconic grandstand and fireworks in the same frame. -
Behind the Curtain: The October Newspaper Movie of the Month
Oct 1, 2021 6:05 PM - The Daily Herald pulls back the curtain into its newsroom, and in the process adds a bit of fun by picking a Newspaper Movie of the Month for October. -
Policy Corner: Is 'Downstate' an offensive word?
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - Managing Editor Jim Baumann explores whether 'Downstate' is a dirty word. -
Want to learn about a community? Read the obituaries
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - Months after joining the Daily Herald's southern Illinois editorial staff as group editor in 2016, I was still puzzling over something I frequently saw in obituaries. In obits from Harrisburg, Benton, Goreville, Shawneetown and other small rural cities ground down by several generations of economic depression, memorial donations are often directed to "family choice," instead of a church or charity. I finally called one of the funeral home people I'd come to know in Chester, a pretty community on the Mississippi River and the hometown of Popeye creator Elzie Segar. Segar was a newspaper cartoonist who left Chester for Chicago when he was 20, and worked at the Chicago Herald (no relation) and the Chicago Evening American before he moved to King Features Syndicate in New York. There, in 1919, he dreamed up the strip Thimble Theatre, with characters like Olive Oyl and Harold Hamgravy. It was the precursor to "Popeye," who wasn't invented until 1929, when one of Segar's Thimble Theatre regulars needed a sailor to pilot his boat. -
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - "You have to investigate. You have to be skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful." -- Katharine Graham, the legendary late publisher of The Washington Post
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Behind the Curtain: The September Newspaper Movie of the Month
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - The Daily Herald pulls back the curtain into the newsroom, and along the way, has some fun by picking its Newspaper Movie of the Month for September.
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