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5 unusual facts about Illini Media


Illini Media

Iris Chang, author of the international best-seller, The Rape of Nanking, was a features writer for the Daily Illini from 1987-89.

The friendly rivalry between The Hub and the Buzz was best exemplified by a short-running "feud" between columnists Seth Fein and Don Gerard (current mayor of Champaign.

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.

He also worked for Illini Media's terrestrial radio station WPGU.

The company 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.



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