"Two scholarship winners are now almost midway through their Medill studies. A third candidate will enroll next month. And we still have the equivalent of six full scholarships yet to award"

Ryan Mark, one of the first two journalist-programmers attending Medill: "My goal as a programmer was to get the computer to do my job and make money, even if I’m not around. As a journalist I’ll be trading words for dollars."

"[Dean John] Lavine has a plan that he thinks will reposition Medill so that it can prepare students for the world of 2025. Some of the faculty fears that these changes represent the end of cherished values."

"there are few things more boring to the outside world than the inner machinations of a Journalism school."