Who do you trust to tell you the news with pure objectivity and accuracy? While that’s arguably never been an easy question to answer, its complexity has increased to mega-proportions in the digital era.   Renowned journalists throughout history like Ernie Pyle, Walter Cronkite and Nellie Bly spent years working their way to the top echelons of journalistic credibility and had relatively […]

What’s the story?  That’s the question the news director of a popular Chicago radio station consistently asked me when I worked as her summer intern, 31 years ago.  She’d send me  to cover stories that weren’t newsworthy enough for the paid staff, and then goad me afterwards to tell her the story I’d just experienced […]