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...
By Dan Catchpole Pres. Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on the country’s professional news media Wednesday, with thinly veiled threats on Twitter to pull broadcast licenses due to critical news reports. The attack fell flat in the face of reality. The First Amendment protects broadcasters from...
By the SPJ Wash board: KUOW last week aired a controversial one-on-one interview with an unnamed man who had been punched in the face after walking around downtown Seattle wearing a swastika armband. Many listeners condemned KUOW, arguing the station amplified a hateful agenda by allowing the...
SPJWash is proud to support the Washington Coalition for Open Government through their 2017 Madison Andersen Awards Breakfast on September 22 at the Washington Athletic Club. Would you like to join us at the breakfast at the SPJWash table for FREE? (Yup, a $50 seat...
After the 2017 membership-wide election, the Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington is pleased to welcome six new members of its Board of Directors. The board will welcome KING 5 chief investigative reporter Susannah Frame, Crosscut.com and KCTS9 visual journalist Matt Mills McKnight, Seattle Weekly News...
We've got a new format for the end-of-year awards party and we'd love you to join us! We'll honor the recipients of our awards, scholarships and grants on June 5 at 6:30 p.m. at Optimism Brewing in Capitol Hill. After listening carefully to your feedback, we're throwing...