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Staff contributed, NP Communicator blogger
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Curtis Black, Newstips blogger
Newstips is a grassroots news service providing journalists with stories and sources from Chicago-area nonprofits and community organizations. Journalists can receive Newstips via email or subscribe to this RSS feed. Nonprofits can submit their press releases by emailing Curtis at curtis@newstips.org. Visit the Blog | Subscribe to the Blog

Steve Franklin, Chicago is the World blogger
Steve Franklin is an award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He covered the Middle East for the Tribune as a bureau chief and on numerous assignments in the region. He has also reported from Central and Latin America. Besides the Tribune, he worked for the Detroit Free Press, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Miami Herald, and the Washington Daily News. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer prize, and a series of his articles were among the top investigative stories cited by the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2007. Steve Franklin also works with the Community Media Workshop on outreach to and support for Chicago’s 300 print, broadcast, and on-line ethnic news outlets. He has trained Egyptian journalists for the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and for the Cairo-based Media Development Program. Visit the Blog | Subscribe to the Blog

Staff Broadcast Shows

Community Media & You (Archive)
With host Thom Clark in Partnership with CAN TV21
Behind the scenes in Chicago’s neighborhoods and news–local media and civic action. Thom Clark, CMW President, hosts lively discussions with well-respected Chicago journalists and community leaders.CAN TV provides coverage of events relevant to the local community and gives every Chicagoan a voice on cable television by providing video training, facilities, equipment, and channel time for Chicago residents and nonprofit groups. CAN TV’s five local, noncommercial cable channels, CAN TV19, 21, 27, 36 and 42, reach more than one million viewers in the city of Chicago.For more information about CAN TV and other local Chicago programming, visit its website at www.cantv.org.

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City Voices (Archive)
“City Voices” is a public affairs radio show that had been broadcast weekly on WNUA, 95.5 FM since January 1995 up until the June 2009. Partners included the Chicago Reporter and Catalyst both published by the Community Renewal Society.

“City Voices” by Community Media Workshop was hosted by Thom Clark and broadcasted at 6:30am every Sunday on WNUA, 95.5.

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  • Modern Mobilizing: Activism in the Digital Age May 16, 2013
    Guest post by Thom Clark The Internet brought more information to each of our desktops than we ever dreamed of 10, 15, 20 years ago. But in the last five years, the rise of social media and digital tools, like the tablet and smart phone, are transforming how many organizations get their work done, engage […]

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  • Common sense on school closings May 21, 2013
    The school board would do well to consider the common sense offered by Chicagoans at community hearings on school utilization, performance, safety, and finances; to fix Chicago's schools, we need collaboration, not policies that foment division. […]

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  • Our worlds are tasted here May 20, 2013
    We were talking about East African restaurants and this guy says he knows a bunch of great Somali places. I had no idea. Then we shifted to Ethiopian and on and on here in Chicago. We are the world of the tastes we carry, and  tastes we explore. Here’s one about the booming variety of […]
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