Learn about Digital Storytelling with SPJ & NAHJ

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Invest in your future by updating your digital toolkit with the latest and greatest of the emerging storytelling techniques.

Sponsored by the San Diego chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, this workshop will help you “get your geek on” by gaining insights into the latest tech innovations and learning how to use them to tell more digitally engaged stories.

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Letter on Californians Aware Ballot Measure

San Diego’s elected officials are being asked to approve a ballot measure proposal submitted by the public about the public’s right to know, and the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists hopes they do.

We believe public access to information is a crucial element of journalism and a free society, and we wanted to share our letter to San Diego City Council members with you. A council committee Wednesday sent the measure to city attorneys for their analysis.

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Better Journalism Workshops: The 2016 SPJ San Diego Series

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The San Diego Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is proud to present an innovative, inaugural yearlong series of “Better Journalism Workshops.” Join us and some of San Diego’s best journalists for bimonthly sessions of tips and strategies that will pay instant dividends at your job. Our downtown San Diego workshops will demonstrate how to develop a beat, how to get public records, how to dig into campaign contributions, how to excel at multimedia reporting, how to background people and how to tackle major investigations while handling daily assignments.

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Upcoming Event: Online Tips and Mean Tweets

Come celebrate the end of the year with the San Diego chapters of the Online News Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.

We’re getting together for drinks and mingling and to share our meanest tweets and/or online comments. Yes, that’s right, it’ll be our own version of Jimmy Kimmel’s “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets.” We’ll take turns on the mic reading the actual awful things people have said about us online.

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