Six months after former students accused him of sexual harassment and bullying, the award-winning journalist, a director at the Medill Justice Project, resigns.
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Do we really need theater critics?
Now that Kris Vire’s out at Time Out, Chicago print media has just one full-time theater critic.
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19 more women accuse Northwestern professor Alec Klein of misconduct, group says
Medill Me Too publishes a new letter with additional claims the group has received about Klein’s behavior since ten women came forward initially.
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Northwestern journalism professors respond to sexual misconduct allegations against Alec Klein
“We hear you. We’re listening,” the faculty wrote to the “Medill Me Too” group.
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Alec Klein, accused of sexual misconduct by former Northwestern students, takes leave of absence
Medill Justice Project director requested a leave after ten women signed letter alleging a history of harassment and inappropriate behavior
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Ten women sign letter accusing Northwestern journalism professor Alec Klein of sexual harassment and assault [UPDATED]
Former students and employees who worked with Klein on the Medill Justice Project come forward with allegations stretching back a decade
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What happens when an activist accuses a Tribune reporter of being a police spy
Monica Trinidad publicly accused Peter Nickeas of colluding with cops. Here’s what happened next.
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Nymphs, pigs, and Mayor Daley for Thanksgiving: The radical art of Chicago Seed
Movements, mantras, and, yes, hallucinogens were all cover subjects for Chicago’s own 60s community paper.
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Are the challenges faced by women journalists changing for the better?
Are the changing circumstances of women journalists changes for the better?
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Medill in the Middle East
Medill’s Qatari campus graduates its first class
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The age of innocence is over
Did Willie Donald do it? The Medill Innocence Project no longer cares.
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Giving away: a bad-luck jacket
Near-vintage Issey Miyake jacket with karma waiting for brave soul to claim it
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Quotegate, and the Eric Ferkenhoff mystery
On Medill, David Protess, Mary Nesbitt, and Eric Ferkenhoff
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John Lavine says he’s stepping down as dean next year
John Lavine announces he’ll leave Medill next year
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Streetwise — the Medill Edition
Medill grad students produce a special issue of Chicago’s StreetWise, Assistant professor Jeremy Gilbert, Assistant professor Rachel Davis Mersey, Jason Mersey, Professor Charles Whitaker