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Views of the News: Photogs Fired, Storm Chasers Die, Goodbye Lee & Charles

Chicago Newspaper Guild ad photographer layoffs
Chicago Newspaper Guild

Sun-TImes Fires Photographers

Carla K. Johnson, AP: "Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off Photography Staff"

Robert Feder blog: "Memo to Sun-Times Editorial Staff from Managing Editor Craig Newman"

Rob Hart's Tumbler: "Laid off from the Sun-Times"

Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune: "The Idiocacy of Eliminating a Photo Staff"

Mathew Ingram, paidContent: "The painful realities behind the demise of the Chicago Sun-Times photo desk"

Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine: "To the dauntless lensmen"

Storm Chasers Die in Oklahoma

Michael Schwirtz, The New York Times: "Chasing the Storm, but Hoping Not to Catch It"

Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY: "Storm chasers' deaths raise questions about practice"

Thwarting Transparency with Secret Emails

Jack Gillum, AP: "Top Political Appointees Use Secret Email Accounts"

MIKE MCKEAN directs the Futures Lab, the experimental newsroom and technology testing center of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He founded the School's Convergence Journalism program and serves on the MU Information Technology Committee. McKean is a leader in the School's partnerships with Apple, Inc., and Adobe Systems to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. He is a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at top media companies and universities in China, has helped establish convergence journalism programs at Shantou University and Moscow State University, and has conducted Internet workshops in the United States, the Russian Federation and Albania. McKean has been honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985. McKean has served on the J-School faculty since 1986.