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Jim Meadows

Urbana

Reporter at WILL Radio/Illinois Public Media since 2000.

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  • Media Matters host and journalism scholar Robert McChesney has died at 72

    3 weeks ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Jim Meadows

    https://ipmnewsroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Bob-McChesney-Audio.mp3Robert W. McChesney, whose books and radio broadcasts denounced corporate domination of mass media, died this week at the age of 72 in Madison, Wisconsin. From 2002 to 2012, the strains of Thelonius Monk’s “Straight No Chaser” opened McChesney’s radio program Media Matters Sunday afternoons on WILL-AM.

  • Who and What I'm Following During This Stupid Coup

    4 weeks ago | ambushmag.com | Jim Meadows

    Beginning on November 5 and until late January, I felt an intense need to ignore the news media, social media, and any other media that might remind me of what was coming. It was too much. It was overwhelming. It still is, but I’m not looking away anymore.

  • Gov. Pritzker visits Urbana as part of statewide tour focused on Trump administration’s impact in Illinois

    1 month ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Jim Meadows

    URBANA — Governor JB Pritzker wants Illinoisans to participate in “mass activism” to let Congress know they oppose the Trump administration’s cuts to food and agriculture programs. The governor spoke at a panel in Urbana on Wednesday with U.S Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-Springfield).

  • Trump administration makes cancellation of Innovation Lab funding permanent, ending the Soybean Innovation Lab at the U of I

    1 month ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Jim Meadows

    The Trump administration has terminated the Soybean Innovation Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, nearly two months after its funding was paused pending a review. The lab’s funding is set to officially end on April 15. SIL is one of more than a dozen Innovation Labs part of a program called Feed the Future that were started during the Obama administration. They were created under the U.S. Agency for International Development to address global hunger.

  • Closing Market Report turns 40 years old

    1 month ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Jim Meadows

    The Closing Market Report turned 40 years old this year. Illinois Public Media’s daily program focusing on the agricultural commodities market first aired on WILL-AM in January 1985. A formal celebration of the program’s anniversary came this month at the All Day Ag Outlook at the Beef House Restaurant in Covington, Indiana.

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Jim Meadows
Jim Meadows @WILLJimMeadows
10 Jun 24

On June 9 1922, a University of Illinois professor demonstrated an early version of an optical sound track for motion pictures. https://t.co/IsvHTZYJ9U

Jim Meadows
Jim Meadows @WILLJimMeadows
12 Mar 24

RT @AP: India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims https://t.co/tQZwwLu6tZ

Jim Meadows
Jim Meadows @WILLJimMeadows
12 Mar 24

Illinois Public Radio Statehouse reporter @Alex_Degman reports a lockdown at the state Capitol building.

Alex Degman
Alex Degman @Alex_Degman

The Illinois Capitol has been locked down for the last few minutes with a message circulating over the PA to shelter in place. Not sure what’s going on — anyone out in the halls or near the doors that saw what might have caused this?