journalism
“And that’s the way it was …” From 1962 until 1981, those were the words I and millions of others heard. With those words broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite ended his CBS Evening News for those 19 years. A couple of years after his retirement, I was in an elevator at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. …
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As small town newspapers go by the wayside in Illinois, a new task force is studying ways to incentivize a revival of local journalism, including through the use of tax credits. The Local Journalism Task Force conducted a study on communities underserved by local journalism. It was formed by legislation that was signed into law…
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Frankie Murphy Giesing turns the tables and interviews MRN boss J. Robert Gough about starting Muddy River, journalism today and growing up in Perry, Missouri.
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I walked into the room and looked around for a seat. Finding one desk perfectly situated in the back row, I flopped down with my oversized bag and began to set myself up for my first class. My binder, with a cover that sported a Crayola masterpiece by my kindergartner done in a scribbled likeness…
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Sometimes life’s greatest blessings come with living a little crazy. So it was that fifty years ago, at 1:30 p.m. on a balmy Thursday, Dec. 28, we—Martha, a cub Lifestyle Editor and columnist for The Belleville (IL) News-Democrat, and Jim, a second-year law student at Washington University in St. Louis—were married in Rock Island, IL.…
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Well, the announcements have been made. Muddy River News is built and growing and we just laid the foundation of Muddy Rivers Sports with the hiring of Matt Schuckman. Matt and Steve Eighinger join David Adam, Jim Dewey and myself to provide about 200 years of experienced journalism. None of us made the Muddy River…
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