
Darcel Rockett
Senior Journalist at Chicago Tribune
Senior journalist @chicagotribune | Rebel without applause| Studs Terkel 🏆 | 2025 Nieman Fellow | @headlineclub board member | [email protected]
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1 month ago |
siouxcityjournal.com | Darcel Rockett
WINNETKA - First, it was the Pie House in Deerfield, then it was Scottie Pippen’s Highland Park home for the Summer Olympics. Now it’s the McCallisters’. An overnight stay at Winnketka’s “Home Alone” house will give up to four guests the chance to relive their favorite scenes from the 1990 holiday classic on Dec. 12 for $25, plus fees and taxes, through Airbnb.
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2 months ago |
nieman.harvard.edu | Robert Libetti |Darcel Rockett |Albee Zhang
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has selected 24 leading journalists from around the world for two semesters of study at Harvard University, where they will research climate change, the use of artificial intelligence in newsgathering, the proliferation of misinformation, campaigns to silence the free press and other urgent societal and media issues. The cohort will arrive in Cambridge this fall from throughout the U.S. and a dozen other countries.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com | Darcel Rockett
Freeing the roar within ‘Scream’ sessions for DePaul photography exhibit ‘Outcry’ give voice to female vulnerability and power On a recent fall afternoon, on the second floor of the DePaul Art Museum, around 20 women took the training wheels off their voices. The white-walled space was filled with music, hugs, resounding clapping and occasional laughter.
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Oct 6, 2024 |
darcelrockett.com | Darcel Rockett
It’s the midway point of the semester–and all the classes that I culled together for my schedule are gelling nicely.
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Oct 6, 2024 |
pressofatlanticcity.com | Darcel Rockett |Eileen Meslar
CHICAGO — The landscape of girls flag football in Illinois continues shifting as the foundation being built at the high school level now grows toward higher education. What started with 22 teams in Chicago Public Schools in 2021 spread like wildfire to become an Illinois High School Association-sanctioned sport in February. When the announcement was made, there were tears, hugs and applause for the advocates behind the campaign for a sport that had been off-limits to females.
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We're days from the election. If you want a reminder about the power of women's voices, schedule a time and place to screen "Outcry: Alchemists of Rage." https://t.co/PCU3aTHVzp https://t.co/ICaHgrmp5Z

"Outcry," the project that I featured in the @chicagotribune a couple of years ago, is now a film. Tune in on Zoom now to see it. https://t.co/ff2TADGNAM Meeting ID: 831 8140 6604 Passcode: 974494 Q & A follows. https://t.co/HqbCA1O2RK