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Monday, June 16, 2003

R.I.P. Schwarzlose
Jim Romenesko reports that one of -- if not the -- best professors at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism died on Saturday.

Dick Schwarzlose was a character, and one of the profs who defined my (and just about everyone else's) experience at Medill. At first glance, Schwarzlose looked like your typical hard-livin', hard-drinkin' grumpy prof... until he opened his mouth. Schwarlose was actually the funniest, most passionate instructor to walk the corridors of Fisk Hall. The guy was Journalism -- he may not be well-known outside the school, but generations of journalists were taught the history of reporting and ethics by him. And anyone who pooh-poohs j-schools has obviously never met Schwarzlose or taken a class from the man.

Medill -- where he worked from 1968 on -- won't be the same.

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