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A paper by IMC Professor Ed Malthouse received was awarded “Best Paper” at the 8th annual European Advertising Association (EEA) conference. The conference took place June 25 27 in Austria.The EAA is closely related to the yearly International Conference on

June 26, 2009 Students in Rachel Davis Mersey’s Audience Insight class spring quarter examined methods journalists can use to research consumer behavior and understand audiences, particularly in terms of media behavior and preferences. 

EVANSTON, Ill. Recently released Iranian American journalist Roxana Saberi was awarded the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism at the June 20 convocation of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.Saberi, who until May 11 was in an Iranian prison, addressed the

Read Weymouth's full remarks to graduates, delivered Saturday, June 20.

Former Northwestern basketball coach, Ricky Byrdsong, was murdered in a hate crime in 1999. A decade later, Medill students examine his legacy and the status of hate groups today through the documentary, “Fly like the Byrd.” Broadcast students Ryan Dietz,

Medill has announced four winners of the 2009 Brennan Fellowship.   The Brennan Fellowship is an initiative spearheaded by Medill Career Services and Medill alumna Christine Brennan (BSJ80, MSJ81), a USA Today sports columnist and ABC. 

June 16, 2009 Medill journalism and McCormick computer science students unveiled five new tools designed to engage audiences and more efficiently gather and analyze news, all created in just 12 short weeks for the spring Interactive Innovation Project. On hand

Experienced media professionals who want to enhance their careers and broaden digital skills now have six specializations to choose from in the Medill School of Journalism’s new Master’s track, which launches this fall at Northwestern University.

Three years after Medill uncovered millions in privately sponsored trips for members of Congress and their staffs, Medill’s graduate student reporters have done it again – this time for Pentagon personnel in a year long project that has revealed some

When Southwest Airlines Pubic Relations Manager Paul Flaningan sat down on June 2 to hear Medill IMC students present their media strategy ideas for Southwest’s Aug. 16 service launch for Boston’s Logan airport, he surely expected a Powerpoint or two.

MEDIA CONTACT Wendy Leopold at w leopold@northwestern.edu EVANSTON, Ill. That seismic change in the way information is gathered, disseminated and consumed has devastated professional journalism is hardly news. But the role that journalism schools and students can play in helping

Chuck Sharp, managing director of analytics and business intelligence at iCrossing, was named one of Direct Marketing Educational Foundation’s (DMEF’s) four 2009 Rising Stars Award winners.

Medill alumnus Peter Baniak was named editor of the Lexington Herald Leader on May 12 after more than 14 years working at the Kentucky newspaper.

Al-Jazeera, the largest Arabic news network in the Middle East, is now a partner site for Medill’s Journalism Residency (JR) program for undergraduate students. 

Katharine Weymouth, the Chief Executive Officer of Washington Post Media and the Publisher of The Washington Post, will be Medill's keynote speaker at graduation on June 20, 2009.   Medill Dean John Lavine said, "At a time when all media but