Medill Media Teens: Changes to CPS selective enrollment process lessen burden of travel, testing for students
As part of the Medill Media Teens program, Chicago Public School students received training and worked closely with Medill master’s students to report and write an article that covered an issue in their school community. The piece below was produced under the mentorship of Poonam Narotam (MSJ22). By Iliana Garner Medill Media Teens It was […]
Medill Media Teens: Guidance counselors say they see increased stress among CPS teens
As part of the Medill Media Teens program, Chicago Public School students received training and worked closely with Medill master’s students to report and write an article that covered an issue in their school community. By Karen Campos Medill Media Teens Juan Carlos Salinas felt he never had the mental health support from his school […]
Supply chain pickles: An underestimated anomaly of a commodity
By Mollie Rotmensch Medill Reports Shortly after married duo Lindsay Malinowski and Bradley Treusdell bought their home in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, they gutted out the first floor and embarked on a two-year renovation. They remodeled the space into their first restaurant, The Little Pickle, which opened in 2017. The menu included soups, sandwiches, and […]
WATCH: Highland Park shooting renews push for Illinois and federal assault weapons ban
By Hannah Shapiro Medill Reports The shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade killed seven people and injured dozens more. In the month following the shooting, community members, activists and local politicians have committed to preventing such violence from impacting other communities, focusing their efforts on pushing for state and federal bans of assault […]
Destigmatizing herpes: Meet the creator behind the podcast that saves people’s lives
By Sam Dier Medill Reports It took Courtney Brame four years after his herpes simplex virus type 2, or HSV-2, diagnosis to begin seeking out information about his positive status. An invasive Google search led him to multiple support groups, mostly private, filled with members shame-ridden by their diagnosis. It was there that he noticed […]
From the ocean to the pharmacy: Studying marine organisms for potential human health advances
By Brittany Edelmann Medill Reports Scientific divers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego explore the ocean to collect marine organisms, such as corals and sponges. They bring them just steps away from the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier to the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine to study them […]
How to avoid a lawsuit when writing a song
By Lauren Turner Medill Reports Streaming platforms such as Spotify and SoundCloud make it easier to share and upload music –and to remix and sample it. Think about Doja Cat’s “Freak” (Paul Anka’s “Put Your Head on My Shoulder”), Miley Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” (Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen”) and Lil Uzi Vert’s “That Way” (Backstreet […]
‘We are all musical’: Turning to music and a grief choir to heal
By Brittany Edelmann Medill Reports One evening in the beginning of May 2021, birds chirped along with the sounds of a piano and voices outside of a hospice facility in Texas. A small group of about seven people finally met in person after four months of meeting weekly on Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic. They […]
WATCH: The Power of Puns in Advertising
By MacKenzie Coffman Medill Reports Several years ago, local hair restoration company Restore launched an advertising campaign with former Bears player Brian Urlacher. The company’s billboards, sprinkled around Chicago and surrounding areas, often feature a long-popular advertising technique — puns. So why does the controversial pun work so well? John Ford, the editor in chief […]
WATCH: The Mardi Gras After Party: Plastic Pollution and a Way Forward
By Hannah Beir and Poonam Narotam Medill Reports After a pandemic-induced hiatus in 2021, the Mardis Gras celebrations in New Orleans came back this year. And they brought the trash back too. The Department of Sanitation cleared 1,150 tons of trash off the streets following the Mardi Gras parades and parties in February, according to […]