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(5/15/12) The Medill Media Teens program celebrated the graduation of its second class on Saturday, May 12. The program allows Northwestern students to mentor teenagers from Chicago's Gary Comer Youth Center.

(5/10/12) Medill senior William Carey was recently awarded the Alistair Cooke Award in Journalism, a Fulbright award, to study the effects of the Olympic Games on London citizens.

(5/7/2012) - Medill Dean John Lavine announced today that ESPN journalist and Medill alumnus Michael Wilbon will be this year's speaker during the school’s journalism graduation ceremony.

(5/3/12) Bradley J. Hamm, dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism, has been named dean of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.

(4/25/12) The 2012 Medill Student Showcase will take place on Thursday, April 26, at 5 p.m. in the McCormick Tribune Center Forum. Below are the official selections.

(4/24/12) Medill hosted a "Careers in the Magazine Industry" panel discussion with seven Medill alumni.

(4/16/2012) John Sullivan, senior lecturer and assistant director of Medill Watchdog, co-led the team of Philadelphia Inquirer reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism today. Their project was a seven-part series that explored the widespread violence in the city’s schools.

(3/5/12) Medill partnered with Northwestern's School of Communication to host the 2012 Career & Internship Fair, featuring more than 50 employers with more than 100 job openings. The event was held on April 4.

(3/26/12) In their new book “The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” out today, Medill National Security Journalism Initiative faculty member Josh Meyer and co-author Terry McDermott reveal all of the previously undisclosed details about how Mohammed came to be the real mastermind of the worst terrorist attacks in history.

(3/26/12) Recognizing a need to help journalists more easily tell multimedia stories, the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University has released a new tool to create great-looking digital timelines quickly and easily.