The Cincinnati chapter will host “Words & Images: A Media Debrief and Community Conversation” on Oct. 8 to discuss a high-profile July police shooting and the media’s coverage of it. Panel...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/09/23/cincy-chapter-to-host-dubose-session/
EIJ15 was a whirlwind of words, words and more words. I’ll get to those soon — but today, 48 hours after re-entry to the Day Job — the best I can manage is a photo mash-up, with cutlines be...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/09/23/eij15-one-photo-at-a-time/
Black Lives Matter doesn’t matter this much. At Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, the private liberal arts school is in the middle of a very public controversy. Last week, the st...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region3/2015/09/23/what-really-matters/
Greetings from Orlando, where I’ve found Stone IPA at the hotel bar and amazing passion and inspiration in many journalism conversations. Here are five highlights from a regional perspective,...
There are ethics, and there are smithics. Kevin Smith sits on the board of SPJ’s foundation, called Sigma Delta Chi. Yesterday, he endorsed a candidate for SPJ office. Smith posted on the Excel...
EIJ15 is finally here, everyone! Who’s excited about it? Yeah, me, too. I hope to see everyone in Orlando this weekend, where the weather will be Floridian, the sessions will be phenomenal, the...
In SPJ, every vote really counts. You can win a national SPJ office by just a handful of the few hundred ballots cast online, because most of SPJ’s 7,200 members don’t vote. The ones who do ...
A little late — but another big honor for Region 4. SPJ announced on July 24 that the Columbus Dispatch and the Student Press Law Center were awarded the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Awa...
Nerissa Young and her SPJ students staged a well-run, high-impact regional conference in Athens, Ohio, in March 2015. Region 4 continued to wrack up honors this week, as the SPJ national office r...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/07/24/ous-young-a-winner/
Otterbein 360, the student-run web site at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, is one of five winners of the 2015 SPJ national Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists....
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/07/22/otterbein-360-honored/
Field experience is critical, Tom McKee, a reporter with WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, tells students at the Region 4 conference in Athens, Ohio, in March. Tom McKee, president of the Cincinnati chapter...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/07/22/cincinnati-leader-honored/
Steve York, Kathy Francis and Jim St. Clair were honored for years of service on the SPJ Louisville Pro Board. Photo by Renee Petrina. The SPJ Louisville Pro Chapter hosted its annual award dinne...
Sad news to share … Phil Beck, who was president of the now-closed Philadelphia Pro Chapter of SPJ, died Thursday, July 9, on his 56th birthday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where h...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2015/07/13/rip-phil-from-philly-1959-2015/
Gideon Grudo and Tyler Krome are cheap journalists. Grudo wrote the open-source story reddit revolts below, with Krome assisting. They want you to reprint, revise, repurpose, or rewrite it –�...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region3/2015/07/08/reporting-on-reddit/
Wednesday afternoon, I posted highlights of the interesting and impressive things that SPJ’s pro chapters in Region 2 did in the past journo-fiscal year. Those details came from the annual repo...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region2/2015/07/01/annual-report-tidbits-campus-edition/
As journos know, the first time is interesting, the second indicates a trend. In that vein, we continue the annual tradition of sharing intriguing nuggets from the annual reports SPJ chapters are...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region2/2015/07/01/annual-report-tidbits-pro-edition/
Guest post by Region 3 Director Michael Koretzky Call it a full court press. Note: This post appeared originally on the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 3 Blog. A dozen student...
Call it a full court press. A dozen students in a small Iowa town have sued their whiny college for censoring the campus newspaper and firing their adviser. But they’re not waiting around fo...
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners! Have questions? Please direct them to the contest & awards team. Want to download the awards booklet? Click here for a *.PDF. Have corrections? Cl...
It’s been half a day since red ink killed my withering newspaper in Montgomery County, Md. Despite positive, but hedged, assessments we heard the last several months, we found out today that th...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region2/2015/06/13/when-your-newspaper-folds-like-an-accordion/
Ohio journalists spent much of today trying to wrap their brains around the latest family-owned media group to throw in the towel. The Dispatch Printing Co., owned by the Wolfe family, rocked the...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/06/03/goodbye-columbus/
Each year, the Louisville Pro SPJ Chapter gathers to honor the best work in journalism in Louisville. This year, the chapter has set its annual awards dinner, which includes a full dinner buffe...
Emily Bloch was just plagiarized. So why is she smiling? Because the 21-year-old college editor proved a local reporter copied her story, proved he had done the same to others, and stood up t...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region3/2015/05/26/bloch-and-tackle/
The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a non-profit newsroom based in Louisville, Kentucky, http://www.kycir.org, won a first place award for Online Reporting in the Green Eyeshade cont...
Congratulations to the three winners and 12 finalists from Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky) in the National Mark of Excellence contest. All national winners and finalists will be recogni...
Congrats to all Region 4 Mark of Excellence national “finishers,” all of whom will be recognized at the Student Union event during Excellence in Journalism 2015 in Orlando, Fla., Sept....
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/05/13/congrats-to-our-winners-2/
ICYMI, as the acronymists like to say… Here is a recap of the April 18 national SPJ board meeting in Indianapolis. Not everyone has the time or patience to watch an hours-long meeting by livest...
Meet the best college journalists in the South. They’re the 2014 winners of the College Top 10, a unique journalism contest run by SPJ’s Green Eyeshade Awards – itself a unique contest. For...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region3/2015/05/03/college-top-10/
For the past several months, a group of SPJ leaders has been working behind the scenes to develop an SPJ Region 7 fellowship exclusively for SPJ student members and members who have graduated rec...
Greetings Region 1 SPJ members. It’s been an exciting time for our region, for reasons big and small …. First, we held a successful regional conference at Hofstra University. Hats off to the...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2015/04/23/a-look-back-a-look-ahead/
This past weekend was our regional conference and the national board meeting. Most of you headed to San Francisco for a super weekend of programs and networking and that amazing San Francisco ...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region11/2015/04/22/8-highlights-from-region-11-spj-board-meetings/
Felicia Middlebrooks and Greg Hinz will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Awards banquet for exemplary journalism May 8. Middlebrooks has co-ancho...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region5/2015/04/18/chicago-headline-club-award-banquet-may-8/
I am very pleased to announce the 2014 Mark of Excellence Award winners from Region 11. The complete list of honorees is below. Each year, the MOE Awards honor the best of collegiate journalism a...
Items in the packet for Saturday’s SPJ national board meeting include (watch from home via livestream starting at 9 a.m.; the pages note where to find the item in the packet): 1 – There will ...
Student members of the Board of Directors at North Wind newspaper/web site at Northern Michigan University today responded to SPJ’s call to reappoint the North Wind adviser. In a statement sent...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/04/14/north-wind-responds-2/
Student members of the Board of Directors of the North Wind newspaper/website at Northern Michigan University today responded to calls for them to reappoint adviser Cheryl Reed. The following sta...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region4/2015/04/14/north-wind-responds/
The Indiana Pro Chapter of SPJ will host the annual Best in Indiana Journalism banquet Friday, April 24, at the Indianapolis Marriott North with registration and a cash reception beginning at 5:3...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region5/2015/04/13/best-in-indiana-journalism-banquet-tickets-on-sale/
Eastern Kentucky University’s SPJ Chapter will host the annual First Amendment Celebration April 13 through 16. Events include: -Award-winning journalist Kathryn Foxhall speaking on “New Amer...
One hundred and nine Mark of Excellence Awards recognizing the best of collegiate journalism in 2014 were presented during the Society of Professional Journalists Region 5 Conference March 28 in ...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region5/2015/03/30/region-5-moe-winners-announced/
Journalists from across the region traveled to Omaha March 27-28 for the 2015 Society of Professional Journalists Region 7 Spring Conference. The Society of Professional Journalists Region 7 2015...
March 24 is your LAST CHANCE to register for the SPJ Region 5 conference in Louisville at the regular conference rate prices. Host Louisville Pro Chapter members have planned a full day of sessio...
UPDATE: The Region 1 Conference website has been updated with details on panels, discussions and speakers. Check it out! Registration is now open for the Region 1 Society of Professional Journal...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2015/03/19/register-for-the-2015-region-1-conference/
BREAKING NEWS. Well, great news, at least. We decided last night to extend the deadline for early-bird registration until March 30. But why delay? Register today. Click here to book your tickets ...
UPDATE: Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has vowed to mend the FOI rift with the Secretary of State’s office. We’ll keep you posted. Massachusetts’ public records law, already c...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2015/03/17/foi-fight-moves-to-massachusetts/
Our SPJ western region spring conference will start exactly five weeks from today, and I’m proud to announce that our first day of programming is set — and stellar. That first day o...
Region 1 rallies when local lawmakers try to throw up barriers to public documents. New England chapter president Danielle McLean and Region 1 Director Rebecca Baker sent a letter (expertly writ...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2015/03/11/fighting-for-foi-in-new-hampshire/
Galt House room reservations must be made by Feb. 25 to receive conference rate Early bird registration has been extended until Friday, Feb. 27, for the Region 5 Society of Professional Journal...
Our regional conference just got a lot more awesome. We have a venue for it now, the historic Hotel Whitcomb on Market Street in San Francisco near Twitter HQ (and its well-known wall) … … an...
What a week. What a terrible, awful, heartrending week for our industry, our colleagues, us. Tributes and obituaries are everywhere. Heaven just got one hell of a news team, but it has been a...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region11/2015/02/13/journalisms-worst-week/
The deadline for the 2014 Northwest SPJ Excellence in Journalism Contest has been extended to Wed., Feb. 18, 2015 at 6 p.m. Pacific time. Visit the Region 10 contest website for more information,...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/2015/02/10/contest-deadline-extended-to-feb-18/
The committee planning our Region 11 spring conference in San Francisco is working hard to make sure the trip is worth your while, so please set aside the weekend of April 17 to join us. We expec...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region11/2015/02/04/save-the-date-for-our-regional-conference/
The 2014 SPJ Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest has officially launched, honoring work published or produced in 2014 within SPJ’s Region 10 (Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montan...
Image via Jimmy Emerson, DVM/Flickr By Lauren Whan Each month, Lauren Whan, Region 7 assistant for campus affairs, will take a look at a university chapter from across the region. MANHATTAN, Kan....
The SPJ national board agreed on Tuesday (Nov. 18) to spend some money – $32,000 to improve the society’s technology systems. As a memo on the project described, SPJ’s technology has three ...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region2/2014/11/24/tech-upgrade-for-spj/
Each week, The Heartland Beat will post four journalism jobs from within the region. Learfield Communications is looking for an experienced reporter/anchor for Missourinet — a statewide radio n...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region7/2014/11/18/region-7-career-connections-11-18-14/
This older gentleman? A teenager is wiser than he is. Ed Meadows is president of Pensacola State College in the Florida Panhandle. He made the most headlines of his long career just last week, ...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region3/2014/11/17/losing-his-faculties/
Each week, The Heartland Beat will post four journalism jobs from within the region. The Mt. Pleasant News in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, is looking for a reporter. Click here for more information. The D...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region7/2014/11/10/region-7-career-connections-11-10-14/
Paging all journalists: It’s time to be rewarded for your hard work. Yes, I’m talking to you. All of you can now submit entries for SPJ’s annual Sigma Delta Chi Awards and Mark of Excellen...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region11/2014/11/09/time-to-recognize-the-best/
The opinions expressed below (and above) are not necessarily those of the management of this blog. Then again, they aren’t necessarily the opposite, either. The man expressing those opinions is...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region3/2014/11/09/schick-piss-fuck/
Photo courtesy of Christina Turner By Lauren Whan Each month, Lauren Whan, Region 7 assistant for campus affairs, will take a look at a university chapter from across the region. COLUMBIA, Mo. �...
Manhattan, Kansas, was the last place I expected to find a Terracotta Warrior. But sure enough, one of the sculptures was behind a glass case at Kansas State University. I made the trek down to K...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region7/2014/10/29/finding-antiquity-in-manhattan-kansas/
Each week, The Heartland Beat will post four journalism jobs from within the region. News Press and Gazette, Co., in St. Joseph, Missouri, is looking for a multimedia reporter. Click here for mor...
Each week, The Heartland Beat will post four journalism jobs from within the region. The Le Mars Daily Sentinel in Le Mars, Iowa, is searching for a news reporter. Click here for more information...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region7/2014/10/20/region-7-career-connection-10-20-14/
What’s the opposite of a restraining order? And can I get one against Tom Owens? Owens is the county commission candidate in rural Georgia who got a restraining order against a freelance jour...
Maybe the updated SPJ Ethics Code is no longer a front-burner issue six weeks after it was approved (Sept. 6, by a voice vote). But I think it’s still worth highlighting what was changed. My pa...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region2/2014/10/17/so-what-changed/
Well, for a while there it seemed like it wasn’t going to happen – but here they finally are, the last batch of alternative news weekly award winners in this year’s Region 10 contest. Ce...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/2014/10/10/and-the-weekly-winners-are/
In advance of Election Day, Jacob Fenton from the Sunlight Foundation is holding a training for anyone who is interested in following the midterm money trail (regardless of technical expertise)...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region9/2014/10/08/follow-the-money-webinar/
Kathryn Foxhall, a member of the Washington, D.C., Pro chapter board and longtime freelance reporter, was one of two individuals and two groups to receive a Sunshine Award this month at this year...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region2/2014/09/20/soviet-style-information-control/
The Reporters Committee is about to start suing people to help journalists Katie Townsend joins the organization as its first litigation director By Jonathan Peters Fair warning, all ye who inter...
Linda Hall sends the following from the home office :
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region9/2014/09/15/spj-membership-numbers/
SPJ prez Dana Neuts writes…. “Our International Committee has been fairly dormant the last couple of years. It hasn’t been disbanded, so to speak, but nothing is really happening. We have a...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region9/2014/09/11/spj-intl-connections/
In case you missed both the convention in Nashville and the wrap-up blog post by SPJ president Dana Neuts, see http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/president/2014/09/08/cowboy-boots-convos-and-the-code-of...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region9/2014/09/10/spj-prez-convention-wrap-up/
Do you remember this headline from a few days ago: “New ethics code draft is REALLY final, for now“? It was mostly true, but not entirely. The post was meant to highlight the last round of ch...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region2/2014/09/01/and-finally-more-edits-to-ethics-code-draft/
On Aug. 20, the SPJ national board met by Skype to consider endorsing the Ethics Committee’s third and final proposal for updating the SPJ Code of Ethics. The board voted 11-4, with one abstent...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region2/2014/08/29/new-ethics-code-draft-is-really-final-for-now/
For the second consecutive year, the Region 1 Fund is offering quarterly grants of up to $500 to help professional and student chapters recruit speakers, book space and promote events. This is in...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2014/08/25/get-free-money-for-your-chapter-event/
Blaming a big mistake on the computer seems like a copout, but it is nevertheless what happened. We had a lot of technical problems running the contest this year. The biggest issue was that some ...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/2014/05/19/region-10-contest-results-followup/
We are announcing the results of our annual contest tonight (May 17) – more than 1,800 entries were judged over the past two months, by patient and thorough judges in Long Island, Indiana, Okla...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/2014/05/17/spj-region-10-contest-results-announced/
Here’s the form you need to sign up – spj member form
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/2014/05/16/not-a-member-yet/
… will be released tomorrow, Saturday May 17. If you aren’t going to one of the events in Portland or Seattle, check this blog after 9 p.m. for your own copy of the awards booklet. Good luck...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/2014/05/16/region-10-awards/
Welcome from Madison, WI. I know you haven’t heard much from me in 2014. In fact, you likely haven’t heard from me since you voted (and honored) me with the Region 6 Director position. No exc...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region6/2014/03/02/region-6-are-you-ready/
The 2014 Region 1 Conference in Boston, Mass. is now open for registration. This year’s event, organized by the New England Pro Chapter of SPJ, will bring together professional and student jour...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2014/01/26/register-for-the-2014-region-1-conference/
Whew – it’s been a bit of a steep learning curve here, but we should be good to go. To enter the 2013 SPJ Region 10 Excellence in Journalism contest please visit http://www.reg10spjcontest.co...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/2014/01/15/and-the-region-10-contest-is-live/
– so now is a good time for you to start looking for contest entries, as I get things lined up with Omni and what have you. The deadline this year is Feb. 19 at noon, PST. The website should be...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/2014/01/08/the-region-10-contest-is-coming-your-way/
One of the more interesting issues that came up at the SPJ National Convention in Anaheim was whether the Society of Professional Journalists should change its name. Michael Koretzsky, Region 3 d...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region9/2013/09/28/is-it-time-to-change-spjs-name/
Next year’s regional conference will be March 28-30 in Salt Lake City. As we discussed at our regional meeting, we will be doing it at the BYU Salt Lake Center, which is easily accessible from ...
A proposal to change the name of SPJ to the Society of Professional Journalism seems to be gaining steam. Region 3 Director Michael Koretzky made a passionate argument for tweaking the title of t...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2013/09/06/an-argument-for-changing-spjs-name/
From our friends at the Rio Grande chapter: The University of Texas-El Paso will host an institute for reporting on immigration in late September. Borderzine, Reporting Across Fronteras, invite...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region9/2013/06/22/utep-hosting-workshop-on-immigration-reporting/
A great way to cut down on the cost of obtaining public records is to make your own copy. In the past, that would have meant bringing in your own portable photocopier or one of those 110 spy came...
The Top of the Rockies contest, our unofficial regional contest, were recently announced. Congratulations to those who entered. CLASSIFICATION D: Circulation Less than 10,000 Info Graphic Thir...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region9/2013/06/15/2013-top-of-the-rockies-winners/
We’re in the home stretch of this year’s Region 1 Conference, and it’s shaping up to be one of the best yet. We have a SOLD OUT awards luncheon and a lineup of amazing speakers. We just add...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2013/04/05/one-week-to-go/
Hey everyone, We are putting the final touches on this year’s SPJ regional conference at Rutgers University this year. We have nationally renowned speakers and timely panels. Learn how basic ma...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region1/2013/02/10/2013-regional-conference-is-jersey-strong/
Whether you’re an SPJ newcomer or veteran, you all have an important duty to fulfill as members this coming week. For the first time, all SPJ members will get the chance to vote for national bo...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region6/2012/09/18/make-spj-history-this-week-and-vote/
When I found out last month that Clinton Fillinger, a photojournalist at the WITI-TV, the FOX affiliate in Milwaukee, was arrested while filming the scene of a fire, I was outraged. That outrag...
National conventions are one of my favorite parts about being an SPJ board member and Region 6 director. I recently returned from the first Excellence in Journalism convention in New Orleans, t...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region6/2011/10/02/a-whirlwind-of-activity-at-eij11-in-new-orleans/
Not too late to attend the banquet. Go to www.greeneyeshade.org for details.
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region12/2011/06/21/green-eyeshade-awards-this-friday/
For Immediate Release: June 2, 2011 For more information: Sarah Prickett, GES Contest Administrator, gesawards@spj.org Sonny Albarado, SPJ Region 12 Director, (901) 529-2703 or salbarado@spj.o...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region12/2011/06/07/green-eyeshade-awards-finalists/
FROM the Green Eyeshade website 61st Green Eyeshade Awards Winners to be honored at June 24 banquet The best journalism in the Southeast will be honored Friday, June 24, at the Green Eyeshade Aw...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region12/2011/06/03/green-eyeshade-banquet-registration/
My much-delayed report on the national board meeting of April 16. At their annual spring session, at headquarters in Indianpolis, your SPJ leaders and national representatives rejected a Bylaws C...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region12/2011/05/02/one-member-one-vote/
Please join me in belated congratulations to the Harding University and the McNeese State University campus chapters of SPJ. SPJ’s national board met last weekend, April 16, and approved the ch...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region12/2011/04/22/hooray-for-new-spj-chapters/
Region 12 chapter leaders, Here are some tips from Regions 4 & 5 on finding sponsors for a regional conference. They could also apply for major events where you’re trying to attract a broader a...
http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region12/2011/04/21/chapter-fund-raising-tips/