The Hub

The Hub serves to showcase student-produced news, entertainment and multimedia productions at Columbia College Chicago and foster collaborations between Columbia’s student media outlets. Hub partners include The Columbia Chronicle newspaper, WCRX-FM, community news sites Chicago Talks and Austin Talks, as well as Echo magazine.

WCRX is the student-run radio station of Columbia College Chicago’s Radio Department dedicated to embodying professional, ethical and legal standards while promoting a learning and leadership experience for students. WCRX provides broadcasting services to the Columbia College campus and surrounding communities in Cook County.

WCRX Website

ECHO magazine searches for the questions that can only be answered with stories, and we dive in. ECHO is a catalyst for sharing ideas and boosting voices through the medium of diverse, thoughtful content and engaging visuals.

Echo Magazine Website

Chicago Talks is a non-profit, local news source for Chicago and its many neighborhoods. Our stories come from all corners of the city; our reporters are young journalists learning to cover their communities and community people with a story to tell. It was started in 2006 by Barbara Iverson and Suzanne McBride to be a working lab for journalism students as well as a community and citizen news site.

Chicago Talks Website

The Austin community, home to more than 100,000 people, is rich in diversity, culture and life. AustinTalks – a project of Columbia College Chicago’s journalism program – seeks to reflect this richness and provide the residents of Chicago’s most-populated neighborhood with news and information not available anywhere else.

Austin Talks Website