About Bill Ruminski

RUMINSKI, BILL is the web editor at the SouthtownStar, a 45,000-circulation newspaper that covers the southwest suburbs of Chicago. His responsibilities include managing content on SouthtownStar.com as well as the paper’s Facebook and Twitter pages and helping lead a transition to web-first publishing. Ruminski is a native of Chicago’s south suburbs and graduated with journalism and photography degrees from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His first job was with the Chicago News Bureau of Chicago. Ruminski helped launch a weekly business newspaper in South Bend, IN, before joining the Herald Review in Decatur, IL, where he worked for seven years as a business reporter, editor and computer-assisted reporting leader. He returned to the Chicago area in 1998 and held various editing roles at the SouthtownStar before taking over the website in November 2007. He is a youth soccer referee, enjoys cooking for his family and likes to golf.

Stories

Digital media stories published elsewhere by Bill Ruminski:

  • Faces of Freedom [edit]
    Photo editor Larry Ruehl read that more than 850 World War II veterans die each day across America, so the SouthtownStar set out to document the area men and women who served in the war while they were still with us. We photographed nearly 200 people, interviewed many of them and collected questionnaires from all of them. We published a special print section on Veterans Day and produced an online presentation that involved audio, video, a slideshow, a searchable database and an online map.

Writing

Content on this site written by Bill Ruminski (includes contributory writing):

  • Projects

    • Alameda Food Bank
    • The Alameda food bank serves residents in the city of Alameda. There is a pick up for food pantry and USDA government food packages on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 6:30p.m. ...

    • Testimonials

    I learned something in every session. The guest speakers were outstanding, engaging and inspiring. The instructors and graduate students were amazingly patient. The workshop has given me a lift when so much of what is happening in newsrooms tends to pull us down.