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Submit News [+]Tribute to Ponz in Gil Thorp comic strip
Posted by: Kit Donahue on 2008-09-04 12:09:21Jeff Ponczak was a fan of the Gil Thorp comic strip and he was recently added into the strip as a new character.
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Click here to see Gil Thorp comic strip
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Emma Johnson MSN Money colmn launches
Posted by: Emma Johnson on 2008-07-18 15:35:49Emma Johnson's multimedia personal finance column recently launched on MSN Money. The series focuses on people in their 20s and 30s, and includes video, audio, graphic and text elements. Read More >>
proudly introducing... jean lachat photography
Posted by: Jean Lachat on 2008-07-17 22:48:52I happily launched my own home-based photo studio this summer, specializing in documentary portraiture and pretty much anything that is not immoral or illegal! (or at least not that much!) Read More >>
Reporting Contest for College Students and Professionals!
Posted by: Adriana Colindres on 2008-07-17 22:13:52Journalism organization Capitolbeat has separate reporting contests for college students and for professionals, as well as a conference open to all. Contest deadline is Aug. 1 for professionals and Sept. 10 for college students. Read More >>
Chris Heidenrich -- 2nd edition of my local history book
Posted by: Chris Heidenrich on 2008-07-12 12:54:57An updated edition of my book, FREDERICK: LOCAL AND NATIONAL CROSSROADS, about the history of Frederick, Maryland, is available at www.arcadiapublishing.com. Check it out! Read More >>
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Karen Lucas PetitteDaily Illini: 1959-63. Personnel director, 1961-62; Editor in Chief, 1962-63.University of Illinios: University of Illinois: Bachelor of Science in journalism, 1963. Master of Science in journalism, 1967. Inducted: 2007 |
As a female journalist, Karen Lucas Petitte has worked to break ground for other women entering the field for more than 40 years. At the University, she was among the first women selected as editor in chief of The Daily Illini.
After her graduation in 1963, Petitte spent a short time at the Chicago Tribune working for its neighborhood news section. Then, the Chicago Daily News hired her as a general assignment reporter in 1968, during a period when women rarely reported outside the society pages. Petitte was also a consumer affairs and education writer. While covering the education beat, she and a colleague won first prize from the National Council for the Advancement of Education Writing in 1973 for uncovering mismanagement and misspending at Malcolm X College in Chicago. Petitte was later promoted to assistant city editor, believed to be the first woman with that title at the newspaper.
After leaving the Chicago Daily News in 1979, she was appointed Chicago's Consumer Affairs Commissioner, starting the city's first farmers' markets and establishing procedures to license the city's first sidewalk cafés.
Petitte also worked as a top editor for three national publications: Consumers Digest, Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician. She also served as the first female president of the Chicago Newspaper Guild, which represents members in Chicago and northern Indiana.
Petitte retired in 2001 and currently writes and consults. Earlier this year, she was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.
After her graduation in 1963, Petitte spent a short time at the Chicago Tribune working for its neighborhood news section. Then, the Chicago Daily News hired her as a general assignment reporter in 1968, during a period when women rarely reported outside the society pages. Petitte was also a consumer affairs and education writer. While covering the education beat, she and a colleague won first prize from the National Council for the Advancement of Education Writing in 1973 for uncovering mismanagement and misspending at Malcolm X College in Chicago. Petitte was later promoted to assistant city editor, believed to be the first woman with that title at the newspaper.
After leaving the Chicago Daily News in 1979, she was appointed Chicago's Consumer Affairs Commissioner, starting the city's first farmers' markets and establishing procedures to license the city's first sidewalk cafés.
Petitte also worked as a top editor for three national publications: Consumers Digest, Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician. She also served as the first female president of the Chicago Newspaper Guild, which represents members in Chicago and northern Indiana.
Petitte retired in 2001 and currently writes and consults. Earlier this year, she was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.