Get Graded at the 2016 Report Card on the Media Event

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From memories of TMZ cameras to touching tributes for thoughtful journalists to the infamous “800-pound man in fuzzy slippers” comment, we’ve had some memorable moments at our past Report Card events.

What will make news this year?

Come to this year’s Report Card on the Media on March 24 to find out. Our panelists were the subjects of big news stories this year, and this event is their chance to talk about what that was like.

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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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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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