Articles filed under Inside the Newsroom
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Dec 04, 2023 12:00 am - When Jenny Whidden left her hometown of Rolling Meadows for college, she thought she would never look back. While studying journalism at Marquette University in Milwauke...
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To our readers: The importance of vetting photos in the age of AIDec 02, 2023 12:53 pm - "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" needs a makeover. The phrase for today should be, "If it LOOKS too good to be true, it probably is." The emergence of ...
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How township road tax investigation was pulled togetherDec 02, 2023 12:52 pm - Since the inception of the Suburban Tax Watchdog column more than a decade ago, we have done multiple analyses of township operations. In that time, we have written abou...
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Glistening Raindrops Amplify the Magic of Fall Colors: How I made the pictureDec 02, 2023 12:53 pm - Each year the photographers at the Daily Herald try to find some beauty in the colorful fall season. Honestly I enjoy this assignment every year. It gives me a chance t...
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Christmas cliches make the naughty listDec 02, 2023 12:52 pm - Each year about this time, our former copy desk chief Neil Holdway would send around an email warning of the horrors of holiday cliches. He hated them almost as much as ...
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How We Got The Story: How We Got The Story: Tracking down a tracker who captured a bull on the loose in Barrington HillsSep 11, 2023 1:00 am - It is no bull to say that stories about animals on the loose draw the eyeballs of newspaper readers. The public is naturally concerned for its safety when, say, a coyote...
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Beyond the Byline: Staff writer Susan SarkauskasSep 11, 2023 1:00 am - Staff writer Susan Sarkauskas - "Sue" to longtime friends, "Suzy" to relatives - has had several roles in her 33 years with the Daily Herald. She started out as a Neighb...
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Letter to readers: Why should you pay?Sep 08, 2023 4:33 pm - I encountered an interesting conversation on one of our Facebook groups the other day and couldn't resist jumping into the fray. I find myself doing this more often thes...
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Letter to readers: Why should you pay?Sep 14, 2023 6:01 am - I encountered an interesting conversation on one of our Facebook groups the other day and couldn't resist jumping into the fray. I find myself doing this more often thes...
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Policy corner: Do we know a thing happened, or only that someone said it happened?Sep 08, 2023 4:32 pm - Sometimes we have to be careful how we, in a headline, declare that something happened. For the front page of our Aug. 24 edition, we ran the news that Yevgeny Prigozhin...
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