Articles filed under Inside the Newsroom
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Behind the Curtain: The May journalism movie of the monthMay 02, 2020 1:00 am - 'State of Play' The 2009 thriller stars Russell Crowe as a journalist investigating the death of a congressman's mistress. Other cast members include Ben Affleck, Jason ...
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Letter from the editor: Our job is to help you through these historic timesMay 01, 2020 11:00 pm - I'm writing this message from my home. Thank you for inviting us into yours. Please forgive me if this gets a bit more personal than the usual insight we try to give you...
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Policy Corner: The importance of an open mindMay 01, 2020 1:00 am - Perhaps it's because we at the Daily Herald have been programmed to keep an open mind that we are more adept than many non-journalists at seeing both - or in many cases ...
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How We Got The Story: Reliable PR tipster leads us to a 7th-grader's sensationApr 30, 2020 11:00 pm - It was the start of another odd week dominated by coronavirus, and the emails began arriving early and mounting quickly. About 168 messages hit the inbox that Monday - r...
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Behind the Curtain: Two strokes of luck in capturing gull at damApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - Sometimes you just get lucky, and this day I was not the only one to be lucky. I was in between photo assignments and had stopped in the parking lot down by the dam in E...
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Shutdowns spur innovations in sports, entertainment, music coverageApr 06, 2020 1:00 am - With virtually all sports, entertainment and music events shut down by the pandemic, Daily Herald editors had to shift focus to keep readers in touch with the leisure ac...
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Career built on love of suburbs, newspapersApr 05, 2020 11:00 pm - Growing up in Bolingbrook in the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Sanchez enjoyed everything the suburbs had to offer. He also developed an appreciation for local news, thanks to...
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Letter from the Editor: Things I wish I'd asked my grandparentsApr 05, 2020 11:00 pm - I've been doing a lot of reading lately about the 1918 flu pandemic. Medicine and technology have advanced light years since then, and the most vulnerable then had been ...
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Policy Corner: Building a front page in the age of COVID-19Apr 05, 2020 11:00 pm - Prior to the onset of the coronavirus, crafting the front page every day had a lot to do with our long-stated mission of Big Picture/Local Focus. We'd offer you a smorga...
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Need for safety from virus is changing how photographers workApr 05, 2020 11:00 pm - Working from home is the new normal for most people in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for our photojournalists, that really is not possible. As visual journalis...