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Jackie Spinner
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Faculty Advisor, The Columbia Chronicle
Chicago
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By Mark Caro Verified, Jackie Spinner| northwestern.edu@ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook is eliminating fact-checking may amount to a double whammy for people living in this country’s ever-expanding news deserts. Having lost their primary local news sources, these communities often turn to social media and other alternatives to try to stay informed. Now one of those key sources is removing safeguards against the spread of misinformation.
By Jackie Spinner, Paul Farhi Verified, Hannah Carroll, Mark Caro Verified| northwestern.edu@ Bob Gough has worked in local news nearly his entire life, and he knows this: Everybody wants to see their kid or grandkid in the paper. The trouble is that truly local news in his western Illinois town of Quincy is getting harder to find. Starting this year, radio listeners no longer can catch the Quincy Senior High School football games on Friday nights. The legacy newspaper, the Herald-Whig, has changed hands two times since 2021 after being family-owned for nearly 100 years.
By Jackie Spinner| Gateway Journalism Review@ The day before the Nov. 5 election, I carried a bundle of poles into the newsroom of the Columbia Chronicle in an attempt to recreate one of my core memories from The Washington Post, where I was a staff writer for 14 years. I made signs for the seven swing states we’d be watching on election night, and I placed them on the poles around the newsroom where the reporters could cluster as they watched the returns come in.
Company Info
The Columbia Chronicle
Published since 1973, The Columbia Chronicle has consistently won awards and honors from highly respected institutions such as the Illinois College Press Association, Associated Collegiate Press, Society for News Design and the College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers, Inc. (CNBAM). The Columbia Chronicle provides a wide variety of appealing content and news to engage a range of interests and personalities. Our award-winning website is updated daily at: www.ColumbiaChronicle.com
Chicago, Illinois, United States
+1 312-369-8955
Founded: 1973