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• Defending Journalism

  
  The Intersection — Authority: 604
  Undergraduate journalism students at Northwestern University investigate cases where it appears the wrong person may have been sentenced for a crime they did not commit. To date, the course taught by professor David Protess has exonerated of 11 men–including 5 on death row–and been featured widely on television ...
  9 hours ago

• Virtual News Cast – Are Any Journalists Safe From Automation? (videos)

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 574
  They took our jobs! ...or, you know, they could one day. If you’re majoring in journalism, you may want to switch to computer science. Virtual newscasts, though primitive, are making major inroads into the field. Northwestern University has a virtual video news program called News at Seven . Using phrases, ...
  10 hours ago

• The Media Equation: Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  A subpoena seeks to test whether Medill students who investigated the murder conviction of Anthony McKinney were actually journalists.
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• Musical brains easily pick out speech from background noise (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov 15 (ANI): Fail to keep track of conversations at noisy parties? Well, learn playing an instrument to enhance your ability to pick up emotional cues in conversation, says a new study.Nina Kraus and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has found differences in brain activity that they ...
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• Boeing announces 2009 Engineering Students of the Year

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 144
  The Boeing Company today announced the winners of the company-sponsored 2009 Engineering Student of the Year Award, presented by aerospace publication Flight International. This years competition had two first-place winners: Can Bayram of Northwestern University and Michael Grant of Georgia Institute of Technology.
  2 days ago

• Steinways and stiff joints

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 611
  This past week was busy at Northwestern University, but a different kind of busy-ness than usual, as I was not playing concerts.  Joints could become stiff, scores could remain in my case, food could be eaten whenever I felt like it.  So that’s how normal people live!I gave a couple of masterclasses, did an ...
  2 days ago

• Illinois and Northwestern play for first Land of Lincoln Trophy

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 550
  For over sixty years, the my alma mater, the University of Illinois, and Northwestern University fought on the football field for the honor of taking home the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk. The name of the trophy upset a few dozen people, so the NCAA, in line with its drive to eliminate all Native American imagery in college ...
  2 days ago

• Musical brains easily pick out speech from background noise

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov 14 (ANI): Fail to keep track of conversations at noisy parties? Well, learn playing an instrument to enhance your ability to pick up emotional cues in conversation, says a new study.Nina Kraus and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has found differences in brain activity that they ...
  2 days ago

• Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments.  The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Northwestern University in Chicago is the first biological evidence that musicians have a perceptual advantage for ...
  3 days ago

• Friday Morning Open Thread

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Whats up? A study of Chinese workers has linked the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), found in many plastics and the inside lining of cans, with erectile dysfunction, according to the Washington Post . Just what I thought: Eating dark chocolate every day reduces stress, according to a study covered by LiveScience ...
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• Ethnic pride may boost African-American teens mental health

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 622
  Most adolescents who belong to an ethnic minority group wrestle not only with their self-esteem (like most teens), but also with identity issues unique to their ethnic group, such as dealing with s
  3 days ago

• Northwestern Adds Quidditch to Its Athletic Department

  
  Brahsome - Care To Get Nice? — Authority: 535
  Northwestern University is lucky because it has a manly, athletic reputation; steak-head fans and “student-athletes” prowl the campus looking for women to aggressively hit on and nerds to wedgie up on flagpoles. It’s a rough environment and exactly the type of place you would expect to find a Quiddich team. ...
  3 days ago

• Northwestern students paid witnesses, prosecutors allege

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  Georgia Garvey reports: Two witnesses told investigators they were paid during a probe by Northwestern University journalism students into a 1978 shotgun slaying that the students believe unjustly sent a Harvey man to prison for life, prosecutors alleged Tuesday. The witnesses told investigators with the Cook ...
  4 days ago

• Cook County judge chastises Sidley lawyers for sarcasm in brief

  
  Chicago Law — Authority: 518
  Lawyers from the white-shoe corporate firm of Sidley Austin probably dont find themselves in Cook County criminal court too often. And after Mondays events at 26th and California, they might want to tread carefully next time they are there. The Chicago firm represents Northwestern University in its battle with Cook ...
  5 days ago

• Professor Dave Protess -Innocence Project or Blair Which Project?

  
  . . . With Both Hands — Authority: 431
  Last night the State of Virginia executed a monster. Ironically enough the sniper-serial killer John Allen Muhammad - the Beltway Sniper was covered by Life Coach and former Journalist Jayson Blair. Blair made more mistakes in his reports than the number of people who firmly believe that there is a steam heater (used ...
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• Met Home Is Where the Heart Was

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 538
  Metropolitan Home is being put to bed for good. I suffered reflux trying to digest the death of Gourmet , one of four Condé Nast publications closed recently. I didn’t sample the food bible much but felt nostalgic about it as an American institution. I only picked up Modern Bride a few times when ...
  5 days ago

• Prosecutors Say Students Paid Witness to Aid Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Prosecutors accused former journalism students of paying a witness to help them prove that a man was wrongfully convicted of a 1978 murder near Chicago.
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• Cook County Prosecutors Launch Full Smear Campaign Against Innocence Project

  
  DISSENTING JUSTICE — Authority: 515
  Recently, major news outlets reported that Anita Alvarez, the District Attorney for Cook County, Illinois, had subpoenaed the grades, grading standards, and electronic communications between students and professors in the Medill Innocence Project. Northwestern University runs the Medill project, which, during its ...
  5 days ago

• Chicago theater openings/closings this week

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 432
  show openings   1985 - The Factory Theater   All the Fame of Lofty Deeds - The House Theatre of Chicago   Becoming Ingrid - Rubicon Theatre Project Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Cooperstown - Theatre Seven of Chicago ...
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• TDW Exlusive: Dawson’s Creek Star Mary Beth Peil on Playing Grams

  
  TeenDramaWhore — Authority: 138
  In honor of today’s release of Dawson’s Creek: The Complete Series , I’ve rounded up some key cast and crew to reflect on the monumental series.  If you followed my coverage of the Paley Center panel, you probably noticed a certain lady was MIA: Mary Beth Peil, better known as the one and only Grams. I was ...
  6 days ago

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