Articles filed under Daily Herald Media Group
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Behind the Curtain: Do adjectives add to news bias?Nov 22, 2021 12:00 am - What if we tried to produce a whole day's paper without using any adjectives? A reader who used to write us regularly, the late Stan Zegel, put that challenge to us in r...
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Policy Corner: The challenge of avoiding bias in choosing the day's top storiesNov 22, 2021 12:00 am - I've written about how we subscribe to "wire" and other services for our state, national and international news. These services help guide what news we present to you in...
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Chicago Journalists Association honors Daily Herald's tornado coverageNov 20, 2021 12:00 am - The staff of the Daily Herald has been honored in the Chicago Journalists Association's 2021 Sarah Brown Boyden Award competition. The paper's coverage of the June 21 to...
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Feder: John Lampinen to retire as Daily Herald editor; Jim Baumann named executive editorNov 02, 2021 1:00 am - John Lampinen, who has led the news operation of the Daily Herald with integrity, compassion and fairness for two decades, will retire as editor in December, culminating...
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Daily Herald wins 54 awards from Northern Illinois Newspaper AssociationOct 29, 2021 1:00 am - The Daily Herald took home a personal best of 54 awards at the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association's annual gathering held virtually this year. The newspaper won fir...
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24th annual Influential Women in Business recognition eventOct 20, 2021 11:00 pm - Twenty-two local women executives will be honored in the 24th annual Influential Women in Business Awards and Recognition Event hosted by the Daily Herald Business Ledge...
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Behind the curtain: How much focus should a loud protest get?Oct 18, 2021 12:00 am - How may biases have come into play with some of the news we've covered over the past year? We on our Objectivity Council looked at how we covered schools and the pandemi...
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The stories that stick with us: In the wake of a tragedy, strangers step in to help orphaned girlsOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - Cook County courts is a bleak beat. Justice - when it prevails - is rooted in loss and frequently in tragedy seeing as how it results from crime. In 2013, after five yea...
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The stories that stick with us: Words of thanks from a high school kid gone proOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - When I announced on social media in August 2020 that I was taking over as editor of the Daily Herald Business Ledger, I heard from many of the contacts I'd made in my 21...
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The stories that stick with us: 'Last Letters Home' revealed permanent link to fallen troops' soulsOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - A story that's stuck with me for 13 years is "Last Letters Home," written for Memorial Day in 2008. It told the stories of the families of four local servicemen who had ...