The Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington announced today eight gala award winners and four scholarship winners for 2017. All recipients will be honored at SPJWash's 2017 end-of-season party on June 5. This year's Journalist of the Year is The Stranger's Sydney Brownstone for her relentless...
If you have an updated membership in our chapter, you should have received an email today that includes a link to vote on the next local board. There, you'll find short bios on these 7 candidates. SPJ Board members are elected to foster rich connections among...
Join SPJ Western Washington for our annual end-of-season awards bash as we honor the recipients of our awards, scholarships, and grants on June 5 at 6:30 p.m. at Optimism Brewing in Capitol Hill. We listened carefully to your feedback and this year, we're throwing a more...
With the birth of “alternative facts” and the recent surge of interest in fact-checking the news, the pressure is high for the media and communicators to get their stories straight. Join the Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington and the Northwest Science Writers Association for...
LAST DEADLINE EXTENSION: We are extending the deadline one last time for nominations for the SPJWash Board of Directors to May 5 at 11:59 p.m. We look forward to receiving your materials. The Western Washington Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is accepting candidate applications...
SPJ Wash is launching an inaugural mid-career grant to give Washington journalists the resources to complete long-term investigative projects. Read more about SPJ Wash's five scholarships and grants. By Erika Schultz, Seattle Times photographer and fan of Andrew Schneider [caption id="attachment_3684" align="alignleft" width="200"] Photo by Vince Musi[/caption] Pulitzer Prize winner...
The Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awards five annual scholarships and grants to journalists and journalism students from Bellingham to Vancouver. The deadline for all scholarship and grant applications is May 15 at 11:59 p.m. All materials should be emailed as...
The Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington chapter will offer its annual “Passion Project” grant for Northwest photojournalists beginning this Spring 2017. The Pew Research Center reported photographers and visual journalists have been the newsroom staffers hit hardest by layoffs throughout the United States. Their jobs...
[caption id="attachment_3618" align="alignright" width="240"] Susannah Frame is KING5's chief investigative reporter.[/caption] Join the Society of Professional Journalists for the Washington Collegiate Journalism Conference, which brings together students from colleges and universities around the Pacific Northwest for a day-long workshop series. Buy tickets. WCJC17 is from 9:30 a.m....
Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington is excited to host the second annual Talk Shop. Come hear two leading journalists -- Susannah Frame of KING 5 and Levi Pulkkinen of The Seattle PI -- discuss reporting big stories out of daily beats. Frame and Pulkkinen will...