Ruth Hanna McCormick
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2 days ago · The Tribune, politically liberal in outlook for much of the 19th century, became increasingly conservative under the leadership of Medill’s grandson Robert R. McCormick. From 1914 to 1925, McCormick shared the responsibilities of publisher and editor in chief with his cousin Joseph Medill Patterson .
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1 day ago · Medill now is seeking additional funding from other organizations and from alumni. After an initial grant of $300,000 from the Lilly Endowment and the Mutz gift, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation made a grant of $1 million in 2019 and then followed up with a $2.4 million grant in 2022 to launch the Local News Accelerator.
4 days ago · Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher, the journalism school’s chair of social justice in reporting, documented his experience through various days at the encampment on social media platform X, formerly ...
2 days ago · In 2022, the General Assembly created a task force to research the state of journalism in Illinois. Their report included research from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism that showed one-third of local outlets have closed since 2005, creating an 86 percent decline in newspaper jobs over that span.
4 days ago · Henry Clay McCormick: 1887-1891: Pennsylvania: Republican: 1844–1902 James Robinson McCormick: 1867–1873: Missouri: Democratic: 1824–1897 John W. McCormick: 1883–1885: Ohio: Republican: 1831–1917 Medill McCormick: 1917–1919: Illinois: Republican: 1877–1925 Nelson B. McCormick: 1897–1899: Kansas: Populist: 1847–1914 Richard ...
14 hours ago · About 203 counties across the U.S. do not have any local news outlets, according to a report last year from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. More than 1,500 – nearly half the counties – have only one.
Feb 6, 2013 · Her father, Medill McCormick, was a U.S. senator from Illinois and her mother, Ruth Hanna McCormick, was an Illinois congresswoman. Both parents were also in the newspaper industry.
