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So you want to be a better investigative journalist? You can be

Please join the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists on Tuesday, Nov. 15 for this year’s sixth and final Better Journalism Workshop, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: How to brainstorm and deliver investigations amid the daily grind, with speakers Lorie Hearn, executive director and editor of inewsource, which she founded after 35 years reporting and editing at newspapers; Richard Marosi, reporter for the Los Angeles Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist; and Susan White, executive editor of InquireFirst, who has edited or co-edited three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects.
You will hear how these journalists conceived and executed groundbreaking projects and how to apply those skills on your job.
The event is free and open to the public.

We hope you will consider starting or renewing your SPJ membership.
PLEASE NOTE TIME AND VENUE CHANGE FROM OUR EARLIER ANNOUNCEMENT:
Where: San Diego Public Library, Linda Vista Branch, 2160 Ulric St., San Diego 92111.
When: Social hour at 6 p.m., talk begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Contact: spjsandiego@gmail.com; Elliot Spagat, 619-987-3675

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Escape the election — or discuss it. Please join us on Oct. 11 for a media group mixer!

San Diego media groups are teaming for an October mixer. Join SPJ, AAJA, ONA, SDABJ, the Press Club and NAHJ at The Westin at Gaslamp Quarter.

Who: You and lots of San Diego journalists

What: A mixer with all of San Diego’s media groups plus some fresh online journalism tips from the ONA convention via the San Diego ONA chapter

When: 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11

Where: Pinzimini Bar inside The Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, 910 Broadway Circle

Parking Pro Tip: Macy’s validates parking in the Horton Plaza garage for three hours with no purchase.

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Winners of San Diego SPJ’s 2016 Contest

 

Congratulations to all the winners at Thursday’s 2016 SPJ San Diego Area Journalism Awards Contest.

The full list of winners can be found here.

Journalists from news outlets throughout the region came to celebrate at the annual awards banquet. They recognized each other’s work and lauded the 2016 San Diego Journalist of the Year, Voice of San Diego’s Mario Koran.

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SPJ San Diego’s Statement on SDUSD PIO

Public information officers play an important role in connecting the government with the media, and by extension, the public, so these workers must be held to the highest standards of responsibility and respect. That a San Diego school district public information officer recently made, and repeated, a joke about a reporter’s dead body is unacceptable.

Regardless of the context of the school spokesman’s comments, the San Diego Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists finds it irresponsible and reprehensible that a government employee who deals with the media on a regular basis would say if a reporter isn’t careful, her body might wash up on shore. Yet that’s what top Voice of San Diego editors Scott Lewis and Sara Libby say Andrew Sharp, the chief public information officer of the San Diego Unified School District, said to reporter Mario Koran about colleague Ashly McGlone.

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