Chicago Journalists Association

Don't miss out on networking and the opportunity to learn from top local journalists! There's only a FEW days left until our FREE panel discussion and networking event featuring award-winning journalists from across Chicago this Thursday at Northwestern's Medill Chicago Newsroom!

The event, Building an Impactful & Award-Winning Journalism Career, will feature the four most recent grand prize winners of the Dorothy Storck Award—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica (2023 winner), Brandis Friedman, WTTW (2025 winner), Ismael Pérez, Investigative Project on Race and Equity (2022 winner), and Nell Salzman, The New York Times, Local Investigations Fellow (2024 winner)—in a conversation moderated by Deborah Douglas, senior lecturer and founding director of the Medill Solutions Journalism Hub.

Sponsored by the Northwestern-Medill Local News Accelerator, the event will be held at the school’s Chicago newsroom at 303 E. Wacker Drive. If you still haven't grabbed your ticket, now is the time!

Building an Impactful & Award-Winning Journalism Career A Panel Conversation with Winners of the Dorothy Storck Award

The Chicago Journalists Association wanted to thank Press Forward Chicago (The Chicago Community Trust), The Joyce Foundation, The Field Foundation of Illinois and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation for their generosity in helping some of our board and other CJA members to attend the annual Online News Association Conference in Chicago this week.

We’re grateful to these J-funders not only for making attending ONA possible for so many, enabling CJA leaders and members to learn from talented local and out-of-state journalists, but also for their continued support of Chicago journalism and organizations like CJA year-round.

If you'd like to continue the networking from ONA, please join us at our panel next Thursday, where four previous Dorothy Storck winners will share their tips on building impactful, award-winning careers in journalism.

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