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For over 150 years, the Illini Media Company has been the home of student media on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. This year, we celebrate twenty Illini Media alumni who have gone on to accomplish great things from their humble beginnings at the Daily Illini and WPGU-FM 107.1 by inducting them into our hall of fame. Join current student staff from WPGU and the Daily Illini in discovering these twenty inductees' stories through their own words.
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For over 150 years, the Illini Media Company has been the home of student media on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. This year, we celebrate ten Illini Media alumni who have gone on to accomplish great things from their humble beginnings at the Daily Illini and WPGU-FM 107.1 by inducting them into our hall of fame. Join current student staff from WPGU and the Daily Illini in discovering these twenty inductees' stories through their own words.
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Wendy Rice Winer is a middle school language arts teacher in Morton Grove, Illinois. She formerly hosted the show Saturday Morning Flashback at Chicago radio station WXRT. During her time at the University of Illinois in the late 1970s, Winer worked in several roles at WPGU, including program director. WPGU News Correspondent Owen Henderson sits do…
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Dave Cullen is a full-time writer of mostly books and some TV. He writes longform narrative nonfiction and is nearly finished with a book about two gay soldiers for HarperCollins. Cullen worked for three and a half years at the Daily Illini as a writer and editor. WPGU News Correspondent Tara Mobasher sits with Cullen to talk about his time at the …
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Jim Grimes is an instructor in broadcasting and media for colleges around the state and is on the board of directors for the Illinois Broadcasters Association. Previously, he has worked with many local commercial radio stations in both Champaign-Urbana and Springfield. In 1971, he joined the National Guard as a major public affairs officer, which l…
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Ryan Suffern is a documentarian. He has worked as an assistant to Steven Spielberg as well as helped film four Spielberg movies. In 2006, he began his own production company called Suckatash Productions. He has also written a feature screenplay for DreamWorks, produced two award-winning documentary features and produced and directed music videos. S…
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Ed Epstein has worked at several major news outlets in his career, including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Dow Jones News Service, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Argus Media and Congressional Quarterly. He worked at the Daily Illini as an editor and reporter and graduated in 1974. WPGU News Correspondent Ashley Gilbert sit…
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Erika Rosenberg is the president and CEO of the Center for Governmental Research in Rochester, New York. At the University of Illinois, she worked at the Daily Illini as a writer, editor and eventually editor-in-chief. WPGU News Correspondent Nathalie Murillo sits with Rosenberg to discuss her time at the Illini Media Company at the University of I…
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Brad Fuhr is the only 2022 Hall of Fame inductee who never attended classes at the University of Illinois. A graduate of Central Michigan University, Brad Fuhr began working in radio during high school and went on to work at stations across the country, including as a professional staff member at WPGU. Now, he is the owner of KGAY 106.5 FM, Palm Sp…
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John Paul, often known as JP, is a veteran Illinois TV broadcaster and journalism instructor with more than 40 years of experience. John Paul worked as a reporter and anchor at WPGU while earning his degrees in Radio-and-Television and a master’s in journalism. He worked at several television stations in Champaign-Urbana for over 30 years before be…
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Robert "Buck" Brown was an iconic and prolific cartoonist whose thousands of pieces appeared in Playboy, Esquire, Ebony, and Jet. Buck's cartoons ranged widely in subject matter from the sexual revolution, golfing, and westerns to parodies of figures from history and literature. He is perhaps best known for inventing the character of "Naughty Grann…
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Ralph Nozaki is a career broadcaster who made his mark on the Champaign and Chicago radio markets playing jazz. After graduating, having served as a program director and production engineer at WPGU, Nozaki worked at several FM and Internet radio channels including Clear Channel Chicago, WLFM, AccuRadio.com, and WRME. Nozaki has taught as an adjunct…
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Paula Kamen is an author, feminist, reporter, and playwright. She is the author of four books on women, generational change, and health, including “All In My Head,” which discusses the challenges of navigating American health care while dealing with chronic migraines. Her latest book, "Finding Iris Chang: Ambition, Friendship and the Loss of an Ext…
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Steve Osunsami is one of ABC News’ longest-serving Senior National Correspondents. He reports for a number of broadcasts, platforms, and primetime specials including “World News with David Muir” and “Good Morning America”. In 2016, Osunsami won a National Emmy Award for his reporting on the police shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina. Most re…
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Wayne Miller’s resume includes three books and two Guggenheim Fellowships. He was president of Magnum Photos, a freelance photographer for Life Magazine, National Geographic and Ebony, a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers and co-curator of the Museum of Modern Art's historic exhibit "The Family of Man." Assigned to Edward Stei…
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Nelson Algren was an American author whose 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award for Fiction and was later made into a movie, with protagonist Frankie Machine played by Frank Sinatra. Algren was born in 1909 in Detroit and raised on the South Side of Chicago. He was a reporter for The Daily Illini and graduated from Ill…
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Pat Wingert went on from her time as Editor in Chief of the Daily Illini to work at the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, and a 25-year career as a correspondent for Newsweek. Wingert was named a Spencer Fellow at Columbia University, where she spent a year researching and writing about education. She is currently a reporter for the nonprofit Hec…
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Allan Loudell arrived at WPGU in the fall of 1973 as a fully formed radio news pro. As a freshman who had been trained at Lyons Township High School’s WLTL-FM, Loudell quickly became WPGU’s News Director. His career later took him to Delaware, where his work at WILM and WDEL impressed listeners and subjects—including future President Joe Biden. Amo…
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Natasha Korecki is currently Senior National Political Reporter for NBC News based in the Midwest. She has covered immigration issues at the Daily Herald, the trials of former Illinois governors Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan at the Chicago Sun-Times, and the 2020 presidential campaign and the election of Joe Biden as a national political correspo…
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Sean Long created the first all-student-run television show at Illinois called The College Box, a music video show that went from cable access to the local NBC affiliate. Since graduating in 1993, Long has won two Midwest Emmy awards, and produced and directed the number one worldwide selling DVD, "Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake." Sean Long is current…
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Will Leitch is the founding editor of the sports blog Deadspin, which he ran until 2008, and is a contributor to publications, including The New York Times, GQ, and Sports Illustrated. He's a contributing editor at New York magazine, a national correspondent for MLB.com, and the author of five books. His most recent novel, “How Lucky,” was nominate…
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Rick Sallinger is a Peabody Award winning broadcast journalist whose fifty-year career has included reporting for CNN, WMAQ-TV in Chicago, and currently CBS 4 in Denver. He’s covered the Columbine High School shooting, the trials of the Oklahoma City bombing perpetrators, and three wars. During his time as Program Director at WPGU, he ushered the s…
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As an award-winning correspondent at Reuters, Susan J. Smith Cornwell dedicated many years to reporting in Washington, D.C. on the White House and Capitol Hill. Cornwell had started out as an Illinois local newspaper journalist before her career took her abroad to Germany, the Soviet Union, and Britain, interviewing different world leaders, before …
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Jon Hansen is all things media in Chicago. His award-winning career as a TV, radio, podcast, and gameday host has included work at WCIU-TV, WGN-AM, the Chicago Blackhawks, Block Club Chicago, DNAinfo, and Total Traffic. Most recently he was named as the host of WGN's new show “Your Money Matters.” Jon won a Silver Dome Award in 2020 and an Emmy in …
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Bernard Schoenburg's career in journalism began at The Daily Illini, investigating a fraternity that was scalping concert tickets. He went on to work at the Bloomington Pantagraph in 1977, then at the Associated Press in Chicago, and eventually to the Springfield Journal-Register in 1990. He was also a regular host of "CapitolView," a weekly politi…
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John J. Kim is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Oakland Tribune, among other publications. He earned the 2011 Pulitzer in local reporting as part of a team reporting on city homicides for the Sun-Times. Kim has worked for the Tribune since 2012, contributing daily c…
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Amara Enyia is an activist, lawyer, and public policy expert focused on supporting efforts that bring justice and equity to marginalized communities in Chicago and around the world. She ran for mayor of Chicago twice. She chairs an international human rights-centered working group that advocates at the United Nations and develops advocacy strategie…
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Ann Dwyer is editor of Crain’s Chicago Business, the first woman to hold that position in the history of the business publication. She also writes editorials for Crain’s, for which she has earned several Peter Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club. She has also won awards for reporting, editing, and headline writing from the Illinois Press …
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Social Media automation is not really social! – However as busy business owners and marketers the need to free up time in today’s world of digital distraction is imperative. Another good reason to schedule promotional content or articles that you have written is to be able to better measure and analyse it’s success rate, by using scheduling tools y…
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Welcome to the DIY Digital Marketing Podcast with Lucy Hall – this is a placeholder episode – episode 1 will be along shortly Placeholder for DIY Digital Marketing Podcast Click to download audio file The post DIY Digital Marketing Podcast with Lucy Hall – Placeholder appeared first on Lucy Hall - Social Media.…
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