[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....
Ninety minutes isn’t a lot of time to get through some of the most enduring challenges in journalism, but panelists and the audience tried to tackle some of them Tuesday night. In his introduction to the second #JournalismSoWhite event of the year...
Seattle’s news publications have a diversity problem. Late last year, The Seattle Times caught hell from its readers after a story about local musician Hollis Wong-Wear’s band, The Flavr Blue, went viral. The story’s headline, “Warmth and intimacy from The Flavr Blue, with Macklemore sidekick Hollis...
An introduction from Caley Cook, president, SPJ Western Washington PRO chapter: It turns out that journalism can be a lonely place. We casually know this, of course, but you can also Google “journalism + loneliness†and quotes from dozens of famous reporters will pop up. And that’s...
By Sara Lerner, SPJ Western WA Pro Chapter board member Last night was beautiful. Getting about 160 journalists together to meet each other, recognize one another's hard work, and raise money to support young journalists is a gorgeous thing. We were honored to see you all...
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest, for stories reported in 2015! Award recipients were announced tonight at our annual Region 10 SPJ Gala, hosted by the SPJ Western Washington Pro chapter, and all are listed below. This SPJ Region 10 contest is...