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...
Join SPJ and AAJA-Seattle for an upcoming FREE mixer April 25 from 6 - 9 p.m. at Amber (2214 1st Ave) in Seattle. We're also providing some free entertainment to kick off the evening: local singer/songwriter Susy Sun, who composes folk pop with a classical twist. More details soon on this...
The following summary of clips from Sree Sreenivasan's March talk on social media is a guest post by Morgan Palmer of KIRO-TV and also appears on his blog. Thanks, Morgan! Social media guru Sree Sreenivasan spoke to several hundred of us media and technology types at...
The University of Washington Communication Leadership program will host a Social Media One-Night Stand with Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University's Chief Digital Officer and CNET News blogger, in partnership with the Seattle Times and the Seattle chapters of SPJ and AAJA. LOCATION UPDATE: Due to overwhelming interest,...
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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The MSN Research Team reached out to our SPJ Chapter with a specific request focused at freelancers in this area. Please read their announcement below and if you participate let us know how it goes: "Are you a freelance journalist in the Puget Sound area who...