Media Faculty Share Latest Theories and Practices with Media Executives

Medill faculty members are at the forefront of understanding the shifts occurring in the media industry and the impact of these changes on media leadership practices.READ FULL ARTICLE

Medill Matters Newsletter - Faculty Research Winter 2012

Take a look at the Winter 2012 Medill Matters to find out the latest information about research, presentations and other news from Medill's journalism and integrated marketing communications faculty.READ FULL ARTICLE

Medill Names Rick Tulsky Director Of New Watchdog/Accountability Initiative

Rick Tulsky, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, joins Medill after being Investigations Editor at the San Jose Mercury News.READ FULL ARTICLE

New York Times' Zach Wise Hired As Associate Professor

Zach Wise, award-winning multimedia producer for The New York Times, will join Medill faculty in June as an Associate Professor.READ FULL ARTICLE

Michael Silver to head Knight News Innovation Lab

Michael A. Silver, a former newspaper and television journalist with more than 25 years of experience in interactive information services, will head Northwestern University’s Knight News Innovation Laboratory.READ FULL ARTICLE

Investigative Journalist John Sullivan Joins Medill's Watchdog/Accountablity Initiative

July 12, 2011   Investigative journalist John Sullivan is joining Medill’s Watchdog/Accountability initiative as assistant director this month.  “Sullivan’s journalism has had great public impact and important professional recognition, “ said initiative director Rick Tulsky. “For instance, when Philadelphi

Ashlee Humphreys wins Sidney J. Levy Award

IMC Assistant Professor Ashlee Humphreys was recognized for having the best consumer culture theory dissertation thesis published in 2010.READ FULL ARTICLE

Abrahamson receives AEJMC magazine division educator of the year award

David Abrahamson, professor of journalism at Medill, Northwestern University, was named the 2011 Magazine Division Educator of the Year by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationREAD FULL ARTICLE

Huffman sets out to showcase Afghanistan's cultural treasures

Medill Assistant Professor Brent Huffman traveled to Afghanistan in July to tell the story of little-known cultural treasures buried underground.READ FULL ARTICLE

Medill Matters Newsletter - Faculty Research Vol. 2

Take a look at the Fall 2011 Medill Matters to find out the latest information about research, presentations and other news from Medill's journalism and integrated marketing communications faculty.

Medill Matters Newsletter - Faculty Research

In fall 2010, Medill faculty launched the first issue of Medill Matters, a newsletter highlighting recent faculty research and published works.

Medill on Media Engagement

On November 1, Medill on Media Engagement will be available to the public.

Medill Faculty Well Represented at Magazine Conference

Five Northwestern University professors spoke to some of the magazine industry’s biggest names the last two days during the 2010 American Magazine Conference.

IMC Professor Emeritus-in-Service Don Schultz

Medill presented its first Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award to IMC Professor Emeritus-in-Service Don Schultz. David Protess was also given this award, which will be presented to him in the fall.

Journalism Asssistant Professor Brent Huffman

Huffman's documentary, "The Colony," about the Chinese colonization in Africa, will screen at the University of Southern California tonight.

Journalism Assistant Professor Jeremy Gilbert

As a new member to the faculty at the Segal Design Institute, Gilbert researches the intersection of design, journalism and technology. 

Journalism Lecturer Ceci Rodgers

Rodgers receives a fellowship awarded to business journalism professors.

IMC Assistant Professor Michelle F. Weinberger

Weinberger researches the minority consumer population in the U.S. who abstains from celebrating Christmas.READ FULL ARTICLE

IMC Adjunct Lecturer Robert Mark

Mark received the “2009 Gold Wing Award for Excellence in Journalism,” given by the National Business Aviation Association for a story published in Business Jet Traveler magazine earlier this year.

Professor Emeritus-in-Service Don Schultz

Professor Emeritus in Service Don E. Schultz wrote a paper, “The Missing Brand Ingredient—Trust,” which was published in the September issue of The Brander magazine.

Professor Owen Youngman

Owen Youngman discusses the role of the newspaper in a new media world on WTTW's Chicago Tonight.

Professor David Abrahamson

Under Abrahamson’s guidance seven upperclassmen won awards at the annual AEJMC Magazine Division student contest.

Assistant Professor Susan Mango Curtis

Mango Curtis was recently appointed president of the Society for News Design Foundation and will oversee scholarships, fundraising and grants.

Adjunct Lecturer Robert Mark

Robert Mark has been flying since he was 16 and has been writing his whole life. It's no wonder he was recently named Aerospace Journalist of the Year.

Professor Loren Ghiglione

Professor Loren Ghiglione’s book, “CBS’ Don Hollenbeck An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism” (Columbia University Press, 2008) has been selected as one of three finalists for the 2009 Tankard Book Award.

Assistant Professor Rachel Mersey

Rachel Mersey is getting people to eat their brussel sprouts—in a manner of speaking. That’s how she describes a growing movement to do audience research differently and more effectively than it’s been done in the past

Professor Ed Malthouse

 Edward C. Malthouse, the Theodore and Annie Sills Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications at Medill, has been named the recipient of the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence.Malthouse is an expert in applied statistics, market research, and media marketing within the realm of marketing communications.

Adjunct Lecturer Jim Carey

On April 10 the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing (CADM) announced that Adjunct Lecturer Jim Carey is this year’s recipient of CADM’s Charles S. Downs Award.

Professor Kalyan Raman

Both journalism and marketing are being driven by a common set of factors—rapidly accelerating changes in a world steeped in sophisticated technologies has dramatically reshaped the way consumers shop for information, products and services.

Assistant Professor Ashlee Humphreys

One of my favorite recent projects has been a study of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, with my co-author, Kent Grayson. We’ve used computer-assisted content analysis to look at the rhetorical strategies people use in discussions and which strategies lead to the most cooperation and conflict amongst members.

Assistant Professor Rachel Davis Mersey

From roots in my Ph.D. work, I am still examining the role of online news in geographic sense of community. There is initial evidence to suggest that individuals who read news online have a different (weaker) relationship with their local communities that those who read print newspapers.

Associate Professor Matt Mansfield

The work that Medill has done on transforming its curriculum for the challenges facing the news industry. Even before joining the faculty, I was a user of research and insight coming from Medill. As a news editor and manager, I counted on Medill to help me see around the corner. As a new faculty member, I am excited about extending that work, especially as it relates to visual journalism and the changing way the audience wants to consume news.

Professor Alec Klein

We live in interesting times, to say the least, and both journalism and marketing communications in the real world face exhilarating and sometimes scary challenges. How would you characterize some of those challenges. I consider those challenges to be a byproduct of change, and change is often daunting—but it’s also a great opportunity.
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Assistant Professor Jeremy Gilbert

I just finished the year-long redesign of Poynter Online. The Web site for The Poynter Institute has incredibly loyal followers and serves many different purposes. Finding ways to keep existing users happy but make the site easier to use for new visitors was extremely challenging.

Lecturer Fred Barbash

"Monarchic Pretensions: The War Power Grab,"   by Fred Barbash, lecturer in Medill's Washington program, was published this month in "Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War," by Paradigm Publishers and the Institute for Policy Studies.

Steve Duke, Sector Head, Newspaper and Associate Professor

In November, Duke led a day-long strategic-planning computer simulation for a group of Middle Eastern media executives as part of a three-week MMC management training program on the Evanston campus.

Associate Professor Ava Thompson Greenwell

Outside of Medill, Associate Professor Ava Greenwell is spearheading a program to get more African-American youth interested in journalism. And it's getting good reviews.

Professor Emeritus Robert McClory

Bob McClory spoke to faculty and students on October 17 about "How to Write a Book." In his lecture, he discussed his process for research, notetaking and finding publishers for his various published works. McClory writes all of his

Professor Emeritus-in-Service Don E. Schultz

What are Chinese marketers to do, in an age when the traditional Western marketing communications business model no longer breaks through the blockade consumers have constructed for media messages pushed upon them? Medill Integrated Marketing Communications On October 1, 2007, Professor Emeritus, Don Schultz, shared his perspective on this question and others pertaining to his firsthand experience with marketing and primary research in China at a Professional Speaker Series Fall Quarter event.

Associate Professor Jacquelyn Thomas

Associate Professor Jacqueline Thomas presented a paper at the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation meeting held in conjunction with the Direct Marketing Association's 2007 annual conference in Chicago October 13-14. Her presentation was titled, "Balancing Acquisition and Retention Resources to Maximize Customer Value."

Lecturer Abigail Foerstner

About 190 young Chicago area journalists and their instructors attended High School Journalism Day, Medill's annual outreach program held on Oct. 15, 2007. Students revved up their writing and reporting skills and learned hands-on multimedia applications during a day of workshops with our faculty.

Associate Professor Ed Malthouse

Ed Malthouse presented a paper at the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation meeting held in conjunction with the Direct Marketing Association's 2007 annual conference in Chicago October 13-14. The paper, “Target Selection in Direct Marketing Based on Multiple Contacts” was co-authored by Kirstin M. Derenthal from the Institute of Marketing, University of M¨unster in Germany.

September 9-11 Media Management Conference

News media organizations must become portfolio entrepreneurs that make experimentation and “iteration” a way of life and that “put risk and speed at the center of the corporate altar,” a new report from the Media Management Center concludes.

Professor Abe Peck

Ellen Blum Barish, former editor of the Medill magazine, recently spoke with Professor Abe Peck, who is Chair of Journalism and Cross Media Story Telling and the Gurley Brown Professor at Medill.  

Professor Clarke Caywood

In the increasingly complex world of integrated marketing communications—from Superbowl commercials gone wrong to corporate communications in China—Clarke Caywood is the man with the answers. In between teaching courses in public relations, crisis management and speechwriting

Associate Professor John Greening

 On any given day (when he’s not teaching, of course) Greening, who earlier in his career was the advertising leadership behind Budweiser icons Spuds McKenzie and the infamous “Budweiser Frogs,” is working on a variety of projects, all