Update: The application deadline has been extended until 11:59 PM July 1. The Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington Pro Chapter and Northwest Journalists of Color are opening up applications for this year’s Passion Projects grants. Visual journalists in Washington state with a strong story idea are...
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Western Washington board is pleased to announce photographers Gemina Garland-Lewis and Grant Hindsley are this years’ winners of the Passion Project grants. The Passion Project grants support photojournalists working on documentary projects at a time when newsrooms are dramatically cutting...
Update: the deadline has been extended to Sunday, May 20th, at 11:59pm. Got a documentary photography project burning inside you? The SPJ Western Washington Passion Projects award is now open to Washington state photojournalists with an outstanding idea and superb portfolio to back it up. This year's...
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...
We are thrilled to announce photojournalists Jovelle Tamayo, Ramon Dompor and Sofia Jaramillo are this years' winners of the SPJ Western Washington Passion Project grants. Tamayo and Dompor won the 1st place award of $1,000 for their project, "The Deported" documenting the effects of immigrant detention...
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...
The Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington chapter is excited to announce the 2016 Passion Projects grant winner: Seattle photojournalist Meryl Schenker for her proposal “The Hidden Face of Mental Illness.†We'll honor her and other winners of our special chapter awards at Saturday's 2016 SPJ NW Excellence...
By Ashley Stewart, Western WA Pro Chapter treasurer As we kick off 2016, we wanted to also look back on the busy year we had in 2015! Below are some of our highlights: “Writing books for journalistsâ€: The Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ continuing...