The newly renovated Aida and Mike Feldman Broadcast and Digital Media Suite is expected to reopen in early 2024, the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications announced Monday. The studio, located on the fourth floor of the McCormick Foundation Center, is home to the Northwestern News Network: NU’s campus broadcast news station. Construction.
Forty years ago, Charles Whitaker (Medill ’80, ’81) graduated from Northwestern with two degrees and set off to his first reporting job at the Miami Herald. His time in professional journalism was wide-ranging, covering everything from politics to education for numerous publications. Ultimately, he ended up right back where he started: the Medill School of.
When The Daily Northwestern first wrote about the then-Joseph Medill School of Journalism in 1920, it described “a school of journalism which will eventually be without peer in the United States.”
One hundred years after the school’s founding in 1921, Medill students can now spend Fall Quarter in Washington D.C., spring break in Shanghai and Winter Quarter in San Francisco. They can take classes in integrated marketing communications, data visualization and web development. Once they graduate, they join the ranks of both David Barstow, the reporter with the most Pulitzer Prizes ever won and George R. R. Martin, the author of a book series with the most disappointing final season of a television adaptation.