Scholarship Brunch FOR NAHJ MEMBERS ONLY!!! The NAHJ Chicago Board is excited to host a check presentation for the recipients of the 2017 scholarships. We will be serving a light breakfast and also hold our September meeting at this time. Saturday, September 30th, 2017 Mariano's- Agora (Upstairs Cafe) 40 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60661 10am You can read more…
We are proud to announce the NAHJ Chicago 2017 Scholarship winners. The chapter was able to raise an unprecedented $6500 this year. After reviewing a pool of candidates we've found our top four recipients. Three deserving students will receive $2000. And for the first-time, we are introducing a $500 Digital Scholarship which is graciously sponsored by Chicago's De La Salle…
Among the list of NAHJ Ñ Award finalists is Sebastian Hidalgo a freelancer for the The Chicago Reporter. Born and raised in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, Hidalgo is a visual journalist and photographer. You can also find his work in the Austin Weekly News and the Wednesday Journal. Hidalgo, 22, is nominated for his piece on Chicago's Gun Violence under the…
2017 NAHJ CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPS The National Association of Hispanic Journalists Chicago Chapter is excited to announce that we are offering three separate $2000 scholarships/stipends and one $500 scholarship to Latino students. NAHJ scholarship opportunities are open to college-bound high school seniors, college undergraduates and graduate students pursuing careers in English or Spanish-language print, broadcast, digital or photojournalism, and social media. Students attending four-year colleges and…
Fine-tune your interviewing skills and spruce up your resume and reel. It's time for the FREE 2017 NAHJ Chicago Job Fair. Meet with News Directors, Editors and Human Resource Reps and veterans of the industry. REGISTER HERE Confirmed Employers: ABC 7 Chicago Associated Press CBS 2 Chicago CBS Radio Chicago Magazine Chicago Reader Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Tribune City Bureau…
Please join us in congratulating two of our members who have been selected for City Bureau's Spring 2017 Fellowship! One of them is a familiar face to NAHJ Chicago Chapter. Board Treasurer Carolina Cruz along with NAHJ DePaul Chapter member Amber Colón, and eight other journalists will collaborate on three local issues impacting people in Chicago. Carolina and her team will report…
What's for lunch? We suggest you brown-bag it on March 22 and join in our first-ever Facebook Live Town Hall at 12:30 p.m. It will be hosted and moderated by Univision Chicago News Director Teri Arvesu. Panelists include WGN's Lourdes Duarte, Telemundo Chicago's Alfonso Gutierrez and WLS Radio's Marianne Murciano.
The NAHJ Chicago Board would like to congratulate Social Media Coordinator Yvette Cruz. Cruz has accepted a Web Producer position at KSL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah. That’s only 45 minutes away from her hometown of Provo. Cruz says she will be working with TV, radio and print teams in the newsroom to post content online while…
As we continue our NAHJ membership drive we would like to introduce you to one of our newest members, photojournalist Cristina Fletes. Cristina is a Staff Photographer / Videographer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in St. Louis, Missouri. She was a part of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography awarded to the photography staff at the Post-Dispatch…
