It's that time of year again. Time to get dolled up and dine out with your fellow journalists for the 2014 SPJ Awards Gala and Auction May 17! This year's party will be back at downtown Seattle's Renaissance Hotel and kick off at 5:30 p.m. We'll honor...
The Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is awarding two scholarships for $3,000 to undergraduate students majoring in journalism or communications at two-year or four-year colleges in the state of Washington. Awards are for the 2014-2015 school year. We are also offering the...
A big congrats to SPJ Western Washington board member Berit Anderson, who was on the receiving end of one of the more memorable and "official" engagements we've ever seen at -- can you believe it? -- a Seattle City Council meeting. Berit, an editor at Crosscut,...
"He is an exceptional journalist because he is equal parts dogged beat reporter, collaborative and persistent investigator, and creative and compelling writer...
"Local institution Joel Connelly is a walking encyclopedia of all things political and environmental in the Pacific Northwest," -- Nomination letter for the June Anderson Almquist Lifetime Achievement "Every day, it seems Joel Connelly views journalism as a tool for change and as a way to...
Join SPJ and AAJA-Seattle for a FREE mixer this Thursday, April 25 from 6 – 9 p.m. at Amber (2214 1st Ave) in Seattle. Open to SPJ and AAJA members, as well as anyone in the local journalism community, this event will be a great opportunity to network with all...
We are calling on all our members to help us support student journalists by collecting auction items for our May 18 gala. Please reach out to your contacts and get us some fabulous items! If you have sports tickets, works of art, bottles of wine, professional...
Do you know an outstanding local journalist? We hope you will nominate her/him for one of the four local awards we are doing this year (two of them are new gala awards!). The 2013 SPJ Gala Awards are Journalist of the Year Award, New Journalist of the...
The Western Washington Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists seeks an intern to join its team. This intern will have the opportunity to cover journalism in Western Washington at spjwash.org. The successful candidate's responsibilities may also include editing posts and writing one sheets,...
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