Articles filed under Inside the Newsroom
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Covering the Buffalo Wild Wings situation: One reporter's experienceNov 21, 2019 10:00 pm - As complex as the story is about a multiracial group of 18 being asked to move Oct. 26 inside a Buffalo Wild Wings in Naperville, the reporting process to get the story ...
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One of my favorite photos: Geometry and fall colorsNov 06, 2019 10:00 pm - Photography is geometry, plain and simple. Photographers are always looking for and studying ways to improve their photographs with angles. It's just our nature and mine...
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Behind the Curtain: November's newspaper movie of the monthNov 04, 2019 1:00 am - 'Spotlight' How could we not like the Academy Award's Best Picture of 2016? It portrayed investigative journalism at its best, the Boston Globe's series on child sex abu...
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Love of journalism started at age 10Nov 04, 2019 1:00 am - Not many 10-year-olds decide to start up a newsletter for their community. Most don't even think about the news at that age. But Amanda Erd did. Though it was a short-li...
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POLICY CORNER: When we name and how we describe crime suspectsNov 04, 2019 1:00 am - One of the more ticklish policies facing news media deals with the identification of suspects of crime. It's something readers question from time to time. And it's somet...
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The search for warning signs in death of young AJ FreundNov 04, 2019 1:00 am - In the wake of Crystal Lake 5-year-old AJ Freund's murder in April, we began researching shortcomings and failures of the state's child welfare policies. We knew the Il...
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Sometimes, a photographer loves the rainNov 04, 2019 1:00 am - Photographers don't like to work in the cold rain. It makes work a difficult, grumpy task. It can ruin a good attitude and delicate electrical circuits in expensive phot...
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Letter from Editor: Our views influence what we cover, but not howNov 04, 2019 1:00 am - A few of us were having a lively conversation the other day, sparked by a topic on a wire service summary of upcoming stories. The story advanced in The Associated Press...
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How an out-of-this-world photo was madeOct 02, 2019 1:00 am - I've always liked photographing the moon. There's something about seeing the craters and knowing astronauts have actually walked on it. Whenever there's a super moon, a...
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Sources, luck are the roots of good reportingOct 02, 2019 1:00 am - A reporter is only as good as her sources. In the case of my August story on the anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, my sources were excellent. A semireti...