AND IN CONCLUSION…
by Ron Bonn

I figured I’d give it a couple of semesters, maybe three.
When June and I arrived in San Diego from the East coast, just before the century turned, I realized I’d had a great working life. I’d wrapped up 40 years in television news and, coincidentally, those were the 40 years when television news was inventing itself — the years that saw Ed Murrow’s triumph and tragedy, the years that brought the half-hour nightly network news program—still the gold standard of the industry—the years of the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam war, Apollo to the moon, America’s civil rights revolution, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, the years when Don Hewitt invented “60 Minutes”
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The SPJ San Diego board welcomes all members, local journalists and students to attend board meetings to give your ideas for programs and to help us plan events.
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The Society of Professional Journalists is excited to announce that the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Awards are open for entry until Feb. 9. Among the premiere prizes awarded to professional journalists, the SDX Awards recognize the best in U.S. professional journalism from print, online, art/graphics, newsletters, television, radio and journalism research.
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SPJ members are invited to join with other journalists for a special dinner and interview event with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges at the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University on Tuesday, February 28.
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