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Persistence of Chicago Art Galleries

March 3rd, 2010

I've spent the quarter compiling and analyzing data exploring the persistence of Chicago art galleries, as a way of exploring CAR for the arts. I found a list from the Chicago Artists' Coalition of 96 such businesses that existed in 1990, and tracked their fate. A story summarizing the trend follows (an assignment for my Arts Reporting class) Read More...

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"Alternative Storytelling"

January 11th, 2009

I have a problem. I'm interested in too much. After the first week of my second quarter at Medill, I have eight story ideas I'm working on. To give you some perspective, we are supposed to have 15 done by the end of the quarter. There are 11 weeks in a quarter. 8 times 11 = 88. 88 does not equal 15 Read More...

Tags: journalism, theory, web, writing
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