City News Bureau of Chicago and how they could best cover the city. We are re-launching that bureau in the form of a course this fall. It will be taught by two remarkable journalism veterans. Paul Zimbrakos was the Managing Editor of the bureau for a number of years before it closed its doors and tutored many of the best journalists in the country. Jack Smith was the former CBS Bureau Chief in Chicago and Washington DC. Together they will make this class a rich learning lab and help students discover how best to cover a city and its inner-workings." City News Bureau of Chicago
Open Museum Open Museum Open Museum is a participatory exhibit space for fine artists, art museums, and art enthusiasts. Also a not-for-profit digital outreach tool for artists and museums, its purpose is to help make the arts more accessible to everyone and support museums in engaging people around their collections. Visitors can explore Open Museum through Objects, Museums, or People. Open Museum also offers educational and inspirational games for art and museum lovers, such as The Association Game (t.a.g.), which everyone is welcome to watch, but only members can participate in. Open Museum is a kind of “Facebook meets Blogger and Flickr