Medill

[muh-dil]

noun

1. Joseph, 1823–99, U.S. journalist.

Example Sentences

These days, almost 55 million people in the United States have limited to no access to local news, according to Northwestern’s Medill Journalism School’s State of Local News project’s 2024 data.

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An Altadena Historical Society posting on Facebook says the original house built here in the 1880s was sold to Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, and after that house burned down in 1894, the newspaper sold the land to another Chicago newspaper publisher, Daniel Cameron, who built a Mission-style house.

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At a time when more than 200 counties in the U.S. have no news outlets, L.A County has 104, more than any other county than Cook County in Illinois, where Chicago is located, according to a 2023 report by the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University.

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California has lost one-third of its newspapers since 2005, according to a 2023 Northwestern Medill School of Journalism report.

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As of May, the state had 76 newspapers, according to a tally by Northwestern University’s Medill School.

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