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.
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.
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.
Dear SPJ members and banquet attendees:
I want to share one final update on our 2015 journalism awards banquet at the Bali Hai Restaurant in San Diego, where dozens of us got so sick.
First, I want to apologize again for that experience. It ruined an otherwise fantastic celebration of our myriad accomplishments. I choose to focus on the evening instead of what followed. And I choose to look ahead to next year’s banquet, when we will honor the region’s excellent journalists one more time and celebrate our new distinction as the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2015 chapter of the year. That is something we should all be proud of.
San Diego Society of Professional Journalists 