Jul 19, 2025
In a break-out session, True Star participants create a design concept using Adobe Express. Every summer, after a season filled with content creation and skill-building, we gather together to head downtown to the Adobe office for what we affectionately call Adobe Day....Jul 2, 2025
This week marks the kick-off of the True Star Media Institute summer session where 65 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 are learning about podcasting, photography and video production. For the next six weeks, our new group of Star on the city’s south and west...Mar 31, 2025
It might’ve been spring break for CPS students, but we weren’t taking a break! This week, True Star hosted an exciting media boot camp that immersed students in the dynamic world of media and communications. Throughout the program, students from Chicago public schools...Sep 1, 2024
True Star’s journalism team conducts an interview with Filmscape Chicago President Ned McGregor. / Photo: Marti Parham True Star Media’s six-week summer program has come to a close. Disciplines learned by just over 80 youth this summer included journalism,...Aug 31, 2024
NABJ JSHOP high school students Ryan Dawson and Laila Dyer visit station WBEZ to learn what it takes to produce a podcast. / Photo: JSHOP X Account. The National Association Black of Journalists (NABJ) recently held their annual convention and career fair this year in... 