Illini Media

The Illini Media Company is a non-profit corporation that owns several student-run media outlets associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: the general newspaper the Daily Illini, entertainment paper Buzz, local entertainment website The217.com, engineering quarterly Technograph, U of I yearbook the Illio, and commercial radio station WPGU.

The Illini Publishing Company was chartered by the State of Illinois in 1911. In 1984, it became the Illini Media Company. Four students, elected to two-year terms, and four faculty members, elected to four-year terms, comprise IMC's board of directors.

IMC's mission is to educate students for future careers in print media and broadcast, and to inform and entertain the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign community. Any University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student can become involved with the Illini Media Company and its units. IMC's annual revenues exceed $2.5 million.

Output

See also: Daily Illini and WPGU

Buzz

Buzz is a weekly entertainment magazine published every Thursday by the Illini Media Company. The magazine is included as a weekly insert in The Daily Illini, but is also available as a stand-alone publication. Covering film, television, music and theatre reviews, and local events, Buzz contains feature stories on the local entertainment scene.

Buzz is community and student produced. Both students and those from the community serve as writers, critics, photographers, illustrators, designers and editors.

Technograph

Technograph is an engineering quarterly at the University of Illinois. It began in 1855 as the Selected Papers of the Civil Engineers' Club of the University of Illinois.

Location

Formerly spread out in separate locations around campus, in May 2006, the Illini Media Company finished construction on a new facility, which brings together and all of their units and departments in one four-story, 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m²) building at 512 E. Green Street in Champaign, Illinois. The building's first floor is home to the offices and studio of WPGU as well as the Illini Apple Center, Illini Media Company's^{[citation needed]} Apple authorized reseller. The second and third floor incorporate the newsroom, production, advertising/marketing, and IT departments, while the fourth floor functions as a conference and event gallery.

Famous alumni

• Iris Chang, author of the international best-seller, The Rape of Nanking, was a features writer for the Daily Illini from 1987-89.
• Roger Ebert, film critic, was editor-in-chief of the Daily Illini in 1963–64, when he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also worked for Illini Media's terrestrial radio station WPGU.
• Hugh Hefner, editor in chief and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, worked as a cartoonist for the Daily Illini from 1946 to 1949.
• Will Leitch, editor of the online magazine Deadspin and author of God Save The Fan, was the managing editor of the Daily Illini in 1996.

Controversies

The publishing of the cartoons from the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy resulted in the termination of two staff members at the Daily Illini.

Further information: Daily Illini controversies

External links

• Illini Media — official site
  • Illini Media Alumni Club
  • Illio Yearbook
  • Technograph engineering magazine
  • Daily Illini newspaper
  • Illini Apple Center
  • http://www.the217.com/ and associated sites:
    • WPGU 107.1 FM
    • Buzz