Award winners to be announced at annual SPJ awards banquet
Get ready for this year's event, featuring 2007 Excellence in Journalism winners, Saturday, May 31, 2008 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. The registration deadline is Friday, May 23, 2008. Questions? Contact past-president and banquet chair Kirsten Kendrick at .
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We will send winners' notifications (Magazine, Nondaily Newspapers, TV, Radio and Alternative Newsweeklies) via e-mail the week of May 5 to a designated contact at each media organization. Online contest winner info coming soon. We will attempt to notify freelancers individually. Notifications will list winners, but will not specify place. That information will be provided at our annual awards banquet on May 31. If you have not received a notification by May 12 or have a question, please contact Dana Blozis. Thanks for your patience!
Be a judge in the 2008 Student Biotech Expo
Students research a biomedical or biotechnology topic of their choice and then present their work in one of eleven different categories, such as art, music, drama, web design, creative writing, as well as more traditional categories such as research and molecular modeling at the 2008 Student Biotech Expo on May 28. Judges are needed by May 15.
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Watch the open government forum
The Western Washington Chapter of SPJ, the Washington Coalition for Open Government and the News Tribune of Tacoma recently co-sponsored a public forum entitled "The Implications of Personal Privacy and Identity Theft on Access to Public Records." Panelists included State Auditor Brian Sonntag, Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Bertha Fitzer and News Tribune investigative reporter Sean Robinson.
Watch/listen to the forum (at TVW.org)
Get your "Access" manual update here
A conversion table from the Public Disclosure Act to the Public Records Act is available. As of July 1, 2006 there are new statute numbers for the Public Records Act. Download the conversion table here and make sure your records requests have the new statue numbers.
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