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]]> en-us 2008-05-02T09:46:53-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000639.php JOE JACKSON, Look Sharp! (1979)... Today's Flavor bortiz 2008-05-02T09:46:53-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000630.php Today, my journalism student Tomás Martínez Guerra won First Place for Best News Story at the Illinois Community College Journalism Association (ICCJA) spring conference. Click on the picture (above) to see his winning story, "12 million shadows in limbo:... NEWS FLASH bortiz 2008-04-11T18:49:11-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000627.php I'm proud of my News Reporting & Writing student, LAUREN VANDERMAR, who has started writing as an official freelance journalist, with her first paid and published piece for the Chicago Journal. I'm happy to say that what I teach in... NEWS FLASH bortiz 2008-04-10T15:36:11-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000610.php See Truman's Uptown Exchange in PDF format.... NEWS FLASH bortiz 2008-03-09T14:51:57-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000596.php News Reporting & Writing and the Uptown Exchange student newspaper at Truman College welcome you to join in the following talks with professional journalists on a variety of topics, including how to pursue stories for publication and broadcast.... Upcoming Events bortiz 2008-01-28T12:54:21-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000578.php NEWS FLASH bortiz 2008-01-03T19:54:35-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000571.php Check out my concert review of Café Tacuba at the Aragon (11/23/07) in the Chicago Tribune.... NEWS FLASH bortiz 2007-11-26T11:46:16-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000544.php News Reporting & Writing and the Uptown Exchange student newspaper at Truman College welcome you to join in the following talks with professional journalists on a variety of topics, including how to pursue stories for publication and broadcast. ABOVE: Award-winning... NEWS FLASH bortiz 2007-09-12T16:23:16-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000515.php Pictures bortiz 2007-06-13T01:08:20-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000497.php NEWS FLASH bortiz 2007-05-22T11:35:13-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000494.php DOWNLOAD PDF COPIES OF THE TRUMAN COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER: SPRING 2007 #5 SPRING 2007 #4 SPRING 2006... NEWS FLASH bortiz 2007-05-16T23:30:05-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000442.php News Reporting & Writing and the Uptown Exchange student newspaper at Truman College welcome you to join in the following talks with professional journalists on a variety of topics, including how to pursue stories for publication and broadcast. Chicago Reader... Upcoming Events bortiz 2007-01-31T16:31:16-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000350.php News Reporting & Writing and the Uptown Exchange student newspaper at Truman College welcome you to join in the following talks with professional journalists on a variety of topics, including how to pursue stories for publication and broadcast. Chicago Reader... Upcoming Events bortiz 2006-09-08T11:49:15-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000336.php Pictures bortiz 2006-07-19T19:39:23-06:00 http://WWW.benortiz.COM/archives/000329.php Download a PDF copy of the Spring 2006 Uptown Exchange issue here.... NEWS FLASH bortiz 2006-07-10T19:15:57-06:00