Want to join our 2012-2013 SPJ board?

The Western Washington Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is accepting candidate applications to join its 11-member board of directors ballot for its 2012-13 year. The chapter has multiple two-year (board) and one-year (officer) terms available for candidates, who must be approved in a vote by the chapter’s members. To submit your name [...]

Join us in honoring June A. Almquist Award winner Tracy Record

The Western Washington Pro Chapter of SPJ is proud to announce that Tracy Record, founder, editor and publisher of the West Seattle Blog, is the 2012 recipient of its June A. Almquist Award celebrating distinguished service in journalism. Please join the chapter and its members in celebrating Record’s accomplishments at the Northwest Excellence in Journalism [...]

Buy Your SPJ Banquet Tickets – Early Bird Price Ends May 9

Tickets are now available to the SPJ NW Excellence in Journalism Awards Banquet on Saturday, May 19. Buy your tickets now to take advantage of early bird pricing (early bird rate ends May 9) Doors to the banquet will open at 6 pm at the Seattle Renaissance Hotel (use discount code “K6Y” when you book [...]

SPJ Awards Banquet May 19 at Seattle Renaissance Hotel

Save the date! On Saturday, May 19, the Western Washington Pro Chapter will host our annual awards banquet for the Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest at the Seattle Renaissance Hotel. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and dinner will begin at 7 p.m. The emcees for the evening will be Linda Thomas of KIRO 97.3 [...]

Be a Volunteer Judge for SPJ

Are you an experienced media professional who has a knack for evaluating the work of others? If so, you might make a great volunteer judge for SPJ. Our chapter is looking for experienced media professionals to evaluate contest entries from a variety of media fields in a variety of categories. If you have two to [...]

Support SPJ’s student scholarship auction – register your donation today

If you’ve ever benefited from a scholarship, here is your chance to pay it forward. SPJ is collecting items that it will auction for student scholarships at the chapter’s annual awards banquet on May 19. If you have sports tickets, works of art, bottles of wine, professional services, gift certificate – or even a cash [...]

Congrats to our Mark of Excellence award winners!

Congratulations to the college journalists in Western Washington whose work was honored by an SPJ Mark of Excellence award for the 2011 calendar year! Local winners were honored at the Region 10 SPJ Spring Conference at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., over the weekend. SPJ’s Region 10 includes colleges from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and [...]

This Wednesday, March 21 Tweet your #JoinSPJ pride

March is SPJ National Membership Month, and we want our members to share their membership pride on Twitter. This Wednesday, March 21, join the conversation by tweeting #JoinSPJ and tell us and your followers why you are a member of the nation’s largest and oldest journalism organization. And if you know someone who should be [...]

Register NOW for SPJ’s NW Regional Conference March 31

Register NOW for SPJ’s Northwest Regional Conference in Tacoma on Saturday March 31.  After Thursday, March 15, the conference’s discounted registration expires. SPJ members can attend a pre-conference, members-only reception on Friday, March 30. For more details and conference registration, visit here: http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/?page_id=468

Blogging a passion – food: Continuing Ed Series roundup

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