Author name: craigduff

Sometimes you really enjoy producing a piece — and meeting the people who populate the story — and want to give it a little more attention. This is one of those pieces. In August, I met three of the 25 Republican delegates from Iowa as they were preparing to head to Tampa to their party’s

I’ve spent the past week recovering from the hard work (and great fun) of covering the national political conventions in Tampa and Charlotte. Here are some more images. I accompanied New York Times National Political Correspondent Jeff Zeleny at a street fair called Carolinafest, where we found volunteers for the Obama registering voters in hopes

I spent the last week here in Tampa, Fla., roaming the city and the floor of the convention hall with a video camera, reporting with The New York Times. These conventions have become mostly acts of stagecraft, with every minute carefully scripted and managed (except for the rare moment when a “mystery guest” decides to

If you’re in the Chicago area this Thursday, please join us: A SPECIAL SCREENING OF DOCUMENTARIES FROM MEDILL MASTER OF SCIENCE IN JOURNALISM CANDIDATES Peace Dogs – Dan Sauer came back from the first Gulf War with a traumatic brain injury, shrapnel in his eye and a case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Chloe was abandoned when

Here’s a photo unearthed by my friend Rick Schilling, who has been going through the Theater and Dance dept. archives at Youngstown and discovered this among the treasures the other day. It’s me as Thomas Mendip in Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not for Burning, a comedy set in medieval times, and written in the 1940s

My birthday is the Eve of Independence Day, so I share fireworks with the nation. This year, I spent the evening of my birthday in Milwaukee, which has the longest fireworks display in the midwest (clocking in at almost exactly an hour long) and presents them on July 3rd rather than the 4th. Using some

This weekend, I gave myself an early birthday present and attended a workshop led by photographer Eddie Soloway, whose exquisite photo work in nature is spiritual, painterly, impressionistic and deeply moving. Through a series of exercises, Eddie got us (me and about 17 other photographers) to think more creatively and see things in ways I

Hundreds lined up behind telescopes on a Lake Michigan peninsula yesterday for a glimpse of Venus as it crossed paths with the closest star to Earth. Volunteers with Chicago’s Adler Planetarium aimed their instruments at the sun, with special apparatuses attached, to share the view of the Venus transit with the public.