Nick Clooney the School of Communication and the Newseum, the interactive museum of news in Washington, D.C. As part of the school-Newseum partnership, Clooney hosted the fifth annual AU School of Communication-Newseum Reel Journalism Film Festival and other events at the Newseum. "After a news career that stretches back to the Eisenhower administration, I'm looking forward to joining American University's School of Communication and the Newseum to work with a new generation of prospective journalists," said Clooney. Clooney taught Opinion Writing in fall 2008, and in spring 2009, he taught Films that Changed Us, a new course based on his book, "The
City News Bureau of Chicago of the old CNB, and the bureau's last editor. "Sun-Times" management had thought they would be able to create a new, cheaper wire service, staffed with few people. When that venture—called Alliance News—failed, for a while the "Sun-Times" used the part-time help of Medill News Service, staffed by unpaid journalism students from the Medill School of Journalism. The "Sun-Times", however, was barred from receiving the New City News Service wire because of its being in competition with the "Tribune". Though the "Tribune" had been hailed by former City Newsers as a savior of CNB, on December 1, 2005, the "Tribune"