The Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has selected the winners of our annual Gala Awards, including two brand new awards designed to honor the year's standout journalists. All will be honored at the May 18 SPJ Awards Gala along with the winners...
We all wish we knew 10, 20, 30 years ago what we know now. Unfortunately we aren’t able to time travel to fix past mistakes, but we can learn from people who have been there. I asked some of the professionals on the SPJ board...
Join the Western Washington Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on May 18 as it recognizes winners of the 2012 NW Excellence in Journalism Contest, our 2013 SPJ Gala Award winners and our scholarship winners. Early bird pricing saves you $10 and ends tomorrow...
Here are last week’s must-reads on all things journalism and social media A new Pew study on civic engagement found that six times more adults posted political news to social media in 2012 than in 2008. The three-part study looked into online and offline civil engagement...
[caption id="attachment_2020" align="alignright" width="256" caption="Sarah Stuteville"][/caption] Nearly a year after the birth of the Seattle Globalist, a daily online news source that focuses on international stories grounded in Seattle’s local community, co-founder Sarah Stuteville sat down with me to discuss her journey and what it takes...
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...
There has been a lot of talk concerning the media’s coverage concerning the recent Boston tragedy. What can journalists learn from it? Check out these links: How does a journalist balance accuracy with speed? In light of the Boston Marathon tragedy, New York Times public editor...
[caption id="attachment_1986" align="alignright" width="300" caption="(Flickr photo by Berto Pena, Creative Commons license)"][/caption] There’s no denying it: this is a tough time to be navigating the world of journalism. With fewer people subscribing to newspapers, or choosing to subscribe to nonprofessional news sources altogether, layoffs have been...
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...