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Reiki enthusiasts say the practice promotes healing, stress relief By Brittany Hunt. Posted 4-12-07. Eds: DeKalb, Sycamore angle DeKalb-area homebuyers remain cautious in light of last year's record national dip in values. By Patrick Yeagle. Posted 3-8-07. Eds: DeKalb County angle
Valentine creativity trumps chocolates 'Singing Frogs? Go big or go home' By Jessica Fink. Posted 2-7-07 Eds: DeKalb / NIU angle
Quality over quantity By Stephanie Kohl. Posted 2-7-07 Eds: DeKalb / NIU angle
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DeKalb News Service is staffed by upper-level print journalism students at Northern Illinois University. Faculty members place stories on this site once they are satisfied with the work's quality, accuracy, thoroughness and newsworthiness. Each story also includes a list of sources and contact infomation.
The free service provides news from the NIU campus, DeKalb and surrounding communities. Editors may download material from this site, under the terms listed below.
Editors are encouraged to suggest story ideas, and also may request stringer services if you need a story covered. Pay for stringer assignments will be negotiated independently between the newspaper and the student.
Sources' contact information is available if needed. Just contact us.
Material may be used free of charge by area media, under these conditions:
Participating courses and faculty member for Spring 2007 are:
Journalism is offered as both a major and a minor at NIU, as an area of the Department of Communication. The program offers print, broadcast and public relations sequences, taught by a combination of full-time faculty and industry professionals.
Jim Killam teaches Journalism 303 and 485 this semester. His full-time job is adviser for the Northern Star, the student-run daily newspaper at NIU. He holds a journalism degree from NIU (1985) and worked 10 years in daily newspapers before returning to NIU in 1995. He was a reporter and wire editor for the Beloit (Wis.) Daily News, managing editor of the Belvidere Daily Republican and assistant city editor and, later, copydesk chief for the Joliet Herald-News. Currently, along with his NIU work, he writes free-lance articles for several magazines and has co-authored two books..
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