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 5Â 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...
Help the Society of Professional Journalists recognize your work. Entries for the 2016 Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest are open through Feb. 6. The competition is one of the largest of its kind in the nation and honors journalists across the very diverse SPJ Region 10...
The media landscape is shifting momentously. In the last month in Western Washington our industry has lost nearly 100 jobs, most of them in newsrooms. The result is a weakening of the public dialogue and a particular loss to the communities served by these news institutions....
We are excited to welcome new SPJ Western Washington board member Dan Catchpole to the team. Dan brings to the board a wealth of experience in the journalistic industry as well as a tie to the community north of Seattle via The Herald in Everett....