A touch of Emmys, five floors above Congress
NATAS, the group that picks Emmy award winners, offers membership to local television students, including those from Columbia

Aside from picking the annual Emmy awards, the Midwest chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences’ fifth floor office at 33 E. Congress Parkway offers a unique treat to Columbia’s television majors: a chance to join.
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New Kinko’s to open
New South Loop printing resource expects to be open by April

Construction has begun on a new Kinko’s that will be on the corner of Balbo Drive and Wabash Avenue, three blocks away from Columbia’s main campus.
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Newcity saves Chicago Weekly News
Alternative newsweekly forms partnership with U of Chicago newspaper to reach a larger college audience

What does a college newspaper run by the University of Chicago’s students and a free alternative newsweekly have in common?
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‘Chicago’ doesn’t live up to its name
Daley disappointed movie was made in Canada

CHICAGO—Mayor Rich-ard M. Daley gives the movie that bears his city’s name high marks.
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In the Loop...

A few months back, the former anchors of WBBM-TV’s newscast—Walter Jacobson (now with WFLD-TV) and Bill Kurtis (now seen on A&E)—spoke with Bob Sirott about their reign at the top of Chicago’s news empire in the ’70s. In all, it was an enlightening, WTTW-quality broadcast, complete with a bit of name-dropping here and there. (Careful viewers even heard a mention of Columbia journalism faculty member and former WBBM-TV producer Rose Economou.) But the best bit of wisdom came at the end of the broadcast, when Jacobson confessed to one of his lifelong dreams: someday he wanted to open a bookstore.
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