Northwestern University
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Northwestern University (NU) is a private university located primarily in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern has twelve undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools and colleges offering 123 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom Evanston is named, and eight other Chicago businessmen to serve the people of what had once been known as the Northwest Territory. Instruction began in 1855; women were admitted in 1869. Today, the main campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) parcel in Evanston, along the shores of Lake Michigan. The university's law and medical schools are located on a 20-acre (8.1 ha) campus in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood.
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Washington Post partners with US university to offer journalism scholarship to programmers
The Washington Post and Northwestern University have teamed up to offer a scholarship opportunity to programmers at the university’s Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications.
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The rise of the robot
It is one of the great truisms of our time that we live in an age of technological acceleration; the new paradigms keep rolling in, and the intervals between them keep shortening. This acceleration reflects not only the flood of new products, but also our growing willingness to embrace these strange new devices, and put them to use…It took ten years for color TV to go from the fringes to the mainstream; two generations later, it took HDTV just as long to achieve mass succeed.
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Live chat today: What journalists need to know about storytelling on tablets
Poynter’s most recent Eyetrack study reveals some interesting findings about how readers consume news on tablet devices. During a 3:30 p. m. ET chat, Poynter’s Sara Quinn and Northwestern University’s Jeremy Gilbert will talk about the findings and… Read more.
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License to create? Information overload is no longer an issue
Do you find yourself lying awake at night worrying about the sheer amount of information that exists on the web?.
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‘Battle of Journalism Schools’ unexpectedly leads to exciting football game
ESPN | Daily Northwestern | Syracuse. com Northwestern University’s football contest against Syracuse University Saturday proved one thing for sure: Journalism-related college-football trash talk is astonishingly painful to read. Witness these exchanges from ESPN employees who attended the universities’ respective… Read more.
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Penn State tops Princeton Review’s ‘Best College Newspapers’ list
Princeton Review If you register on its site, Princeton Review will give you a list of schools ranked by the quality of their newspapers. That’s great news for the Daily Collegian of Penn State, this year’s No. 1, up… Read more.
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Live chat today: How journalists can develop digital skills, be more innovative online
In today’s career chat, Miranda Mulligan, the new executive director of the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University, will talk about emerging careers for journalists. Mulligan, who just started her new job this week, previously worked… Read more.
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A cadre of change agents for newspapers
Instead of merely talking about how much the newspaper industry has to change, the Inland Press Association has decided to do something about it – in a big and bold way. The association has created the Executive Program for Innovative Change to provide senior publishing folks with the in-depth strategic perspectives and concrete entrepreneurial skills necessary to efficiently and effectively.
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Commencement speeches from journalists: ‘We love what we do. We love what we do’
Journalists are natural commencement speakers, and this spring many have already spoken to graduating classes. Here’s a roundup of recent quotes delivered at the nation’s podia by journalists and other media types:.
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The robot journalist: an apocalypse for the news industry?
A set of algorithms which take data and turn it into words began as an experimental lab, but now appear on Forbes. com.
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