Mike Longinow

Thoughts of a journalism educator

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Predators Among the Walking Clueless

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She turned in an assignment. I had told her what to do, and she did it — with flourish. Now I had a lesson that educators don't often ha...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Hold On

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The teaching of post-adolescents is a study in flexibility. To really connect with them, you have to be ready for nearly anything — at any t...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

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Anger has an edge in the United States. Maybe it has that same edge in other countries and their news media don't come forth with it lik...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

This happens to other people.

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He was a friend. But I hadn’t seen him in more than 20 years. The era of Facebook and Twitter and other networking make it possible to conne...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

On Michael Jackson: At his departure

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My first 45 rpm record was "ABC" by the Jackson Five. I walked down to Little's record store on Lake Street in Oak Park near t...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Journalism and the shifting ground under our feet

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Jim Romanesko, the Poynter blogger assigned to sit in the control tower as the planes go down all over the airspace, talked today about how ...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Reality can smell bad

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Homelessness got on board the train this week. The Metrolink system in California is a culture unto itself. It's a world of people in su...
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I'm a graduate of Beye School, Oak Park-River Forest High School, Wheaton College, the Moody Bible Institute (Advanced Studies Program), the University of Illinois in Urbana (M.S. in News Editorial Journalism), and the University of Kentucky (Ph.D dissertation on the interplay of higher education and journalism). I reported news for dailies in Illinois and Georgia, and have done an American Society of Newspaper Editors internship with the Grand Rapids Press (MI). Journalism matters to me, but the language of our swirling cultures in this nation is the biggger story and I have a passion for helping students "get it" when it comes to the faith perspective that underlies all good truth-telling, whether in newspapers, magazines, on television, on radio or on the Internet. I love my wife, I love my growing children, and I am learning to love California -- though I miss the green countryside of Kentucky (where I taught at Asbury College for 16 years) and the skyline view of Chicago's lakefront at night.
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