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[caption id="attachment_4093" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Flickr/ Ivan Rigamonti[/caption] By Kate Martin My grandmother taught me it’s rude to ask someone’s age, but for journalists a date of birth is an essential piece of a puzzle. Which among two or more people with similar names committed a crime? We find...
The Washington State Legislature is attempting to pass an emergency bill that essentially renders it impossible for reporters to ever appeal secrecy by our elected officials. Sens. Sharon Nelson and Mark Schoesler presented their case in Olympia Thursday to the dismay of professional journalism boards,...
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SPJ is now accepting entries for the 2017 Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest. The contest honors journalists across SPJ's Region 10, which covers Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Montana. [caption id="attachment_4045" align="alignright" width="424"] Journalists Alex Garland, Reagan Jackson and Alex Garcia at the 2016 Excellence in Journalism...
SPJ Western Washington and SPJ Oregon are excited to announce another year of celebrating outstanding journalism. The SPJ Region 10 Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest will launch at the end of January. In the midst of all the change and news in 2017, journalists in...
Local journalists and their guests celebrated the end of an eventful year at the Holiday Scoop party on Dec. 12, 2017. Holiday Scoop was co-hosted by SPJ Western Washington and AAJA Seattle at Machine House Brewery. Marination supplied the mouth-watering tacos. People from various backgrounds, publications and...
The annual Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington and Asian American Journalists Association Seattle party is here to bring together area journalists and their supporters in one big year-end bash. Don't miss this year's Holiday Scoop! This year, we'll be gathering at 7 p.m. December 12...
'Good data reporting shouldn't be confined to big cities' By Kaitlin Gillespie About 20 women in journalism from across the Northwest converged on The News Tribune in Tacoma early this month for a weekend of learning new skills and discussion the challenges of being a woman in the...
The Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington Board of Directors seeks a content and event production intern for the 2017-2018 season. This is a paid internship position with about 5-10 hours of work per week starting upon hiring and lasting through mid-June. Hours are mostly...