We want to hear from you! Journalists don’t always get the recognition they deserve, so please help us honor the best professionals in our industry. Nominate outstanding journalists in our area for six special chapter awards. The application process is simple. Just a few questions and 500...
Thanks to the generosity of the SPJ national office, we have a copy of the Academy Award-winning film "Spotlight," and we’re going to show it for FREE. We'll also include a pre-show networking mingle and post-showing informal discussion on Monday, May 9, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m....
By Julia-Grace Sanders, University of Washington student [caption id="attachment_2887" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Panelists discussed the root of skewed demographics in newsrooms.[/caption] In the last three decades, journalism has gone from a predominantly white and male industry to the demographic we have today -- predominantly white and male. After years...
Tickets are still available for our next local news trivia night -- April 21 at 6:30 p.m. (Mingle for a bit, then we'll start promptly at 7!) Finally! A chance to utilize your vast wealth of local news knowledge, at the spring edition of Headlines ‘n Deadlines...
This is a guest post by Yessenia Funes, editor at YES Magazine and one of the panelists at the April 12 #JournalismSoWhite discussion in Seattle. SPJ Western WA Pro Chapter board member Marcus Green helped organize the event, and he and chapter president Athima Chansanchai served...
The Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is calling for applicants for four scholarships for deserving Washington state journalism students. The scholarships for the 2016-2017 school year are as follows: Two SPJ Western Washington Pro chapter scholarships of $4,500 each to undergraduates majoring in journalism...
Join in a power packed discussion April 12 focusing on the state of journalism today from the viewpoint of prominent journalists of color at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center. The discussion will center on the unique challenges faced by women and communities of color in...
Come join area journos as the SPJ Western Washington Pro Chapter celebrates the spring edition of Headlines ‘n Deadlines bar trivia at Machine House Brewery in Georgetown on April 21. This event will be hosted by former two-time Jeopardy champion Glenn Fleishman, a veteran tech journalist who has written extensively for...
[caption id="attachment_2847" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Joanne Silberner and Eli Sanders[/caption] Listen in as two top local journalists interview each other on the craft of storytelling. Eli Sanders, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Joanne Silberner, an NPR veteran, will sit down for a one-on-one conversation at 7 p.m....
Hopefully you've seen our many emails, tweets and Facebook posts about this, but if you haven't, you still have time to enter the 2015 NW Excellence in Journalism Contest. The FINAL deadline is now Monday, February 22 at 5 p.m. PST. Submit your best work from 2015...
