Articles filed under Inside the Newsroom
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How the coronavirus led to an eye-catching imageMar 01, 2021 12:00 am - Last year I was fortunate enough to capture a few images of a juvenile red-tailed hawk in flight. The photo was taken in the early months of the statewide shutdown. I pr...
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Behind the Curtain: The newspaper's role in election coverageMar 01, 2021 12:00 am - The local elections take place April 6. Actually, with mail-in voting, they arrive in less than two weeks - March 10. Early in-person voting starts soon after that. Whic...
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Spring training 2021: No more picnic-table talksMar 01, 2021 12:00 am - We sat on a picnic table. That was back in 2016, in the early days of spring training. I had set up a one-on-one interview with manager Robin Ventura, and we talked in t...
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Managing editor's role touches every area of the newsroomMar 01, 2021 12:00 am - Managing Editor Jim Baumann oversees newsroom operations for the Daily Herald and provides oversight for editors in the company's eight weekly newspapers in central Illi...
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How We Got The Story: Turn to the archives to learn about an early Arlington Heights figureFeb 01, 2021 12:00 am - I consider myself a student of history, and it's been said that journalists write the first draft of it. So it's always fascinating to look through the Daily Herald's va...
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Pulling Back the Curtain: February Newspaper Movie of the MonthFeb 01, 2021 12:00 am - Burgess Meredith plays legendary war correspondent Ernie Pyle in this 1945 film with Robert Mitchum, whose performance was nominated for an Academy Award. The movie was ...
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From The Editor: Caring for the details key to historic front pagesFeb 01, 2021 12:00 am - Chronicling history with our newspaper and especially our front page is a job we take seriously. Lately, we've had a lot to chronicle: a national election with America a...
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Beyond the Byline: Interest in science veers into journalism career for Group Editor TrappeFeb 01, 2021 12:00 am - Three weeks after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Renee Trappe left Des Plaines for Iowa State University, determined to become a scientist. But the aftershocks f...
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Hockey players cast long shadows during outdoor gameFeb 01, 2021 12:00 am - ...
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Policy Corner: Data tells the story of COVID-19Feb 01, 2021 12:00 am - Numbers tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with all the data points that are routinely calculated after more than 10 months of the outbreak in Illinois, reade...