Dear Northern Star Alumni and Friends: It's time again to honor the Northern Star's past by celebrating the lives and careers of some special people. On Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, you are invited to the Northern Star's Hall of Fame Induction Banquet to...
Ask anyone who's ever worked with Jaime Jordan what they think of her, and a common word emerges: leader. This year, Jaime becomes the first recipient of the Star's Outstanding Young Alumni Award. In the 4 ½ years since she graduated, she has risen to...
On his first day as a news designer for the San Jose Mercury News, Kevin Wendt showed up with a black eye, and a war story: The night before graduation, he'd been attacked in a bar by the ex-Student Association president, whom the Northern Star had gotten...
Great experience, life-long friendships, and a husband - Heather McLindsay-Dean knew how to take advantage of everything the Northern Star offered. Heather met her husband, Kevin Dean, because of the Star. "I came to the Blackhawk Cafeteria so I could...
A couple of months ago, Christy Arnold received an e-mail from a New Orleans Times Picayune photographer. "I wouldn't have been able to get the shots I did without your help," he wrote. Two days before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, Christy...
At a time when some advertisers are shying away from newspapers, Matt Bute helped a new newspaper succeed. The 1999 NIU graduate joined the Chicago Tribune's advertising sales staff in 2000, after a brief stint at the rival Sun-Times. At the Trib, Matt...
When Dr. Lois Self became chair of NIU's Department of Communication in 1996, she was clear about one thing: "Journalism at Northern was not going to die on my watch." Faculty had just endured a contentious merger. The former journalism department had...
The Northern Star reaches 88 percent of NIU students, almost twice that of its nearest competitor, the Chicago Tribune. More readers pick it up on Monday than any other day (but by a narrow margin). One-fourth of NIU students owned an iPod in 2005, and...
When Jeremy Norman graduated from NIU, his accomplishments at the Northern Star earned him a dream list of job offers: the New York Times, CNN, Reuters and many other news organizations. He chose the Washington Post, where he's a senior Web designer in...
