Episodes

Bob Roberts: reporter extraordinaire 01.04.2019 52:50

Bob Roberts is retiring from WBBM Newsradio in Chicago to move down south, where he will probably continue as a freelance reporter and journalist. He talks about his long news career reporting in major markets at radio stations WINS, WMET, WDHF, WYEN, WBBM, and WMAQ in New York and Chicago, and for City News Bureau. He's also been very active in the INBA as the FOIA/OMA Chair and coordinating the...

Charlie Wheeler: Public Affairs Reporting Program Director at University of Illinois Springfield 07.01.2019 37:50

Charlie Wheeler is a professor at the University of Illinois Springfield, where he is Director of the Public Affairs Reporting Program. He talks about his reporting career with the Chicago Sun-Times, how he got into journalism, the newspaper business, how the media has changed, why it's better to be right than fast, and advice for journalists. He was interviewed at the INBA fall 2018 conference in...