The Northwest Excellence in Journalism 2020 Awards submission portal is live! Grab your best clips from last year, and send them our way. This competition is one of the largest of its kind in the nation and honors journalists across SPJ Region 10, including Alaska, Washington,...
Grants go to support unfunded projects by Washington state visual storytellers Now entering its seventh year, the SPJ Western Washington Passion Projects grant program is again aiming to provide financial support to Washington state visual journalists who are wanting to pursue projects that have not yet...
This year, journalists have worked tirelessly to keep up with the constant news cycle of the Covid-19 pandemic, wildfires, and a civil movement for racial justice. Behind the scenes our newsrooms have shuttered, our hours reduced and jobs cut. News organizations were not immune to the...
In our current political climate, and with social media moving from a platform that shares headlines to one that creates them, it can be difficult to discern fact from fiction. The SPJ Western Washington Pro Chapter wants news consumers to be cautious when reading information online....
SPJ Western Washington is pleased to announce the recipients of our annual chapter awards: Dominic Gates Journalist of the Year The Seattle Times' Dominic Gates' groundbreaking reporting on the Boeing 737 MAX crisis revealed systemic internal and government failures. Gates' reporting "laid bare how the federal regulator was...
The SPJ Western Washington Professional Chapter announces the recipients of its annual scholarship awards: Suhani Dalal, a University of Washington journalism and environmental science student, was selected to receive a $5,000 scholarship for academic year 2020-2021. Dalal in her scholarship letter demonstrated a commitment to reporting...
The Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington and Northwest Journalists of Color are pleased to announce the 2020 Passion Project visual journalism grant winners. Judges Bethany Mollenkof, independent filmmaker and photographer in Los Angeles, California, Shweta Gulati, National Geographic mobile storytelling producer in Washington, D.C., and...
SPJ Western Washington and SPJ Oregon are pleased to announce the winners of the SPJ Region 10 awards, the Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition. Judges narrowed roughly 1,300 entries down to 250 winners, recognizing reporters, photographers, designers editors and more throughout the region, which includes Washington...
The Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awards annual scholarships and grants to journalism students from Bellingham to Vancouver. The deadline for all scholarship and grant applications is extended to June 19. All materials should be emailed as attachments to spjwascholarships@gmail.com with...
The Western Washington Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists is asking members of the journalism community to nominate outstanding journalists in our area for six special chapter awards: Journalist of the Year New Journalist of the Year June Anderson Almquist Lifetime Achievement Award Susan Hutchison...