Journalism

There’s a lot going on in the restaurant world in McLean County, from new entries to longtime favorites closing their doors. Larry Carius follows all of it on his popular Bloomington-Normal Restaurant Scene Facebook page.

The Community News Brief is harnessing the journalism expertise still in Macomb to fill a local news void.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill late last month to address what he called “local news deserts” in Illinois. The legislation pushes to ensure local journalism survives in Illinois’ small towns and mid-sized cities.

The parent company of Tthe Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington is moving its shares off the New York Stock Exchange and to Nasdaq that trades shares of…

Journalism is the first rough draft of history. In newsrooms across the country, that first draft has historically been written mostly by white men.In a…

WGLT Program Director Mike McCurdy will retire at the end of the month after nearly 40 years in broadcasting, 30 of them at WGLT.McCurdy came to WGLT as…

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Irons Folsom Fox blazed the path for women in Bloomington-Normal who had dreams of writing in the late 1800s.One of the Pantagraph's…

The McLean County Law and Justice Center is an important place. It’s where our community hashes out the way we treat each other, and how the system treats…

The future of newspapers is in more and deeper local coverage, according to a prominent former Illinois State University student.Mitch Pugh is the…

President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media are having a “major effect” on how the public perceives journalism and journalists, even at the local level,…