speshkin

Professor of Journalism, Communication Department, Columbia College Chicago. Creator of Columbia Votes! Winner of the 2022 DEI Teaching Activism Award.

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Thrilled to announce that I'm a newly minted, accredited Solutions Journalism trainer! Thanks, @debofficially, for inviting me to collaborate on a recent @Medill Midwest @soljourno Hub training, too! #collaboration #journalism #Appreciation

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More wisdom from the amazing Voter Registration Geniuses @ColumbiaChi published in the @CCChronicle . I am so fortunate to work with these remarkable young people. https://t.co/NHmlqfOL4J

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My @ColumbiaChiComm Intro to Journalism students got published again today in @chicagotalksccc -- congrats to all of them! https://t.co/ODjOhqKHjZ

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Such fun talking with @FrancineHuff and two of my @ColumbiaChi @CivicMediaMA students about their award-winning @soljourno stories on Facebook live this afternoon. But apparently, not embeddable on Twitter. Check out https://t.co/KvKzmQt7LK

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@ColumbiaChiComm students in @chlawrence Covering Urban Affairs class and others at @veelharrison Hood Healing workshop brainstorming more empathetic reporting techniques.

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So great when an alum comes back to lead a workshop for our students and faculty @ColumAlum @ColumbiaChiComm thanks, @veelharrison

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Good story by @kamy_smelser in the @CCChronicle about @ColumbiaChi making the "honor roll" of best colleges for student voting, thanks to Columbia Votes! https://t.co/qimVl3eAZc

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@soljourno @AEJMC @yesmagazine @francialgh @southxmidwest @CivicMediaMA @ColumbiaChiComm @ColumbiaChi These stories! So proud of them: https://t.co/gUvEOzj1bN

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Two of my students just won @AEJMC Student Magazine Awards for their @soljourno stories published in @yesmagazine. Congratulations to @francialgh and @southxmidwest -- @CivicMediaMA students @ColumbiaChiComm @ColumbiaChi !

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@AEJMC @soljourno @yesmagazine @francialgh @southxmidwest @CivicMediaMA @ColumbiaChiComm @ColumbiaChi https://t.co/gUvEOzj1bN

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Oh my goodness watch this

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Excellent piece by my colleague @jackiespinner: https://t.co/RATwWqyh08

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@ColumbiaChi is one of "America's Best Colleges for Student Voting." And Columbia Votes will be doing more to turn students into voters this fall! https://t.co/w1SFZ6vmeD

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@TedMcClelland Wasn't there a pancake house where Eugene Sawyer had his arm twisted into running against Tim Evans for mayor after Harold Washington died? A Golden Waffle, perhaps, off the expressway?

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A great day geeking out about magazines at the international @MappingTheMag conference today with these stellar people. Thank you to @DrakeUniversity for hosting. More tomorrow! #magazine

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@MappingTheMag @CharlesWhitak16 Such a great talk!

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I love this piece about news avoidance and the need for journalists to provide audiences with more hope, agency and dignity. https://t.co/cyIc5ZKDSY

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"Although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never work." https://t.co/X7USRy0u4t

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YES!, a terrific @soljourno magazine, is looking for a new Executive Editor -- someone to champion "the power and promise of community-led solutions to society’s most challenging problems." This is an amazing opportunity! https://t.co/WJCAw7Kjlf.

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Thanks to @mspreciousdavis for speaking to my Defending Democracy class @ColumbiaChi today about the important work of the @MWRDGC and her campaign for commissioner @PreciousforMWRD Learning about down-ballot races is important.