We are excited to join SPJ Region 10 to announce the winners of this year's Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest. Hundreds of journalists are honored in this year's contest, with top recognition and runners up from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska. We are proud...
Join SPJ Western Washington for our annual end-of-season awards bash as we honor the recipients of our awards, scholarships, and grants on June 5 at 6:30 p.m. at Optimism Brewing in Capitol Hill. We listened carefully to your feedback and this year, we're throwing a more...
With the birth of “alternative facts†and the recent surge of interest in fact-checking the news, the pressure is high for the media and communicators to get their stories straight. Join the Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington and the Northwest Science Writers Association for...
LAST DEADLINE EXTENSION: We are extending the deadline one last time for nominations for the SPJWash Board of Directors to May 5Â at 11:59 p.m. We look forward to receiving your materials. The Western Washington Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is accepting candidate applications...
Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington is excited to host the second annual Talk Shop. Come hear two leading journalists -- Susannah Frame of KING 5 and Levi Pulkkinen of The Seattle PI -- discuss reporting big stories out of daily beats. Frame and Pulkkinen will...
Help the Society of Professional Journalists recognize your work. Entries for the 2016 Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest are open through Feb. 6. The competition is one of the largest of its kind in the nation and honors journalists across the very diverse SPJ Region 10...
The media landscape is shifting momentously. In the last month in Western Washington our industry has lost nearly 100 jobs, most of them in newsrooms. The result is a weakening of the public dialogue and a particular loss to the communities served by these news institutions....
We are excited to welcome new SPJ Western Washington board member Dan Catchpole to the team. Dan brings to the board a wealth of experience in the journalistic industry as well as a tie to the community north of Seattle via The Herald in Everett....
Ninety minutes isn’t a lot of time to get through some of the most enduring challenges in journalism, but panelists and the audience tried to tackle some of them Tuesday night. In his introduction to the second #JournalismSoWhite event of the year...
An introduction from Caley Cook, president, SPJ Western Washington PRO chapter: It turns out that journalism can be a lonely place. We casually know this, of course, but you can also Google “journalism + loneliness†and quotes from dozens of famous reporters will pop up. And that’s...