Find Out Your Grade at San Diego SPJ’s Report Card on the Media

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2012: “I don’t consider them to be press.”

2013: “You can sit with your Apple laptop in your fuzzy slippers, you can be an 800-pound, disabled man that can’t get out of bed and be a journalist because you can blog something.”

2014: “If it wasn’t for you guys, we wouldn’t have our granddaughter.”

You don’t want to miss what any of our panelists say this year — March 4 – at San Diego SPJ’s annual Report Card on the Media forum. Four people who made local and national headlines will roast and praise the reporters who covered them.

Meet San Diego’s Weathercasters at Our Mixer

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What’s it like being a weathercaster? You can ask at SPJ San Diego’s Feb. 8 mixer at 57 Degrees. (Perfect venue, right?)

Please join us and many of the most popular newsroom personalities in town — weathercasters — for an afternoon of anecdotes and answers to your most pressing questions. (Yes, the forecast also calls for drinks and appetizers.)

SPJ is Hosting a Résumé Workshop for College Students

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As a special event for journalism students, SPJ San Diego and the SDSU Chapter of SPJ are co-hosting a résumé and interview workshop on Thursday, Feb. 5.

All college students are welcome. They will get a chance to have short one-on-one meetings with seven local editors from a big range of San Diego media outlets to get résumé, interviewing, clips and social media advice. Think speed-dating but with job advice.

Who Should Win Our Awards for Being a Window and a Wall?

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San Diego SPJ is debuting two new awards to recognize the most helpful and not-so-helpful sources in 2014.

The Window Award will go to the public official or agency that most prioritized transparency and the public’s right to know in 2014.

The Wall Award will go to the public official or agency that made it hardest for journalists to do their jobs in 2014, ignoring requests or otherwise compromising the public’s right to know.