Caroline Clifford

48th Ward residents will determine Mar. 1 how $1 million dollars in infrastructure funding will be spent as part of the ward’s annual participatory budgeting process. A virtual information session was held Feb. 18 where residents learned about 10 projects on the 2026 ballot to vote on.


The 48th Ward encompasses the Edgewater, Uptown and Andersonville neighborhoods and first introduced participatory budgeting in 2023. The annual budget allows residents of the ward to share their thoughts on lo...

The first cohort of Loyola’s new Media Fellows program is active on campus. The program comes to life through Loyola’s School of Communications (SOC) Dean Virginia McDermott, Program Director Eleni Prillaman and administrator and professor of foundational communication courses John Slania. 


First-year SOC students were chosen by McDermott and Prillaman and placed in a cohort of 27 this year. The students will lead community engagement projects in Chicago and abroad, culminating in a capstone...

When general assignment reporter Asal Rezaei was shot by a pepper ball outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Broadview, Ill., her first instinct was to immediately go on camera and explain what had happened.


“As a reporter, you never, ever, want to be the focus of the story. Ever,” said Rezaei, a CBS News Chicago journalist.


The incident brought Rezaeir to Loyola’s School of Communication Oct. 21 to speak to students about her career and experience at the Broadv...

Journalists and scientists gathered at the Science Journalism in a Post-Truth World in the Damen Den Oct. 14 to discuss how the decline in science coverage has deepened the public’s mistrust and misunderstanding of science. 


Science journalism once held a prominent place in media. Since then, science journalism has largely disappeared from mainstream media — and experts say the consequences are serious.


During the event, environmental journalist for the Chicago Tribune Adriana Pérez descri...