The Bolts Beat: How to Cover an NFL Franchise That Threatens to Leave

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Please join SPJ San Diego and four of the most plugged-in media personalities working the Chargers stadium story to discuss news coverage in San Diego, in L.A. and around the nation. They’ll discuss the team, dissect the reporting and answer your questions about the future of the Chargers. In February, one of our panelists, Kevin Acee, said if the Chargers leave San Diego, it would be “the biggest story in our city’s history.”

Not biggest sports story. Biggest story.

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Announcing SPJ San Diego’s 2015 Journalist of the Year

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SPJ San Diego is proud to announce the 2015 San Diego Journalist of the Year:

Jeff McDonald, a staff writer at U-T San Diego.

We honor McDonald for covering a story so complex and bureaucratic that many journalists wouldn’t even know where to start: how state regulators handled the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

SPJ San Diego Wants You To Join Our Board

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“No, no, leave the rooster story alone. That’s human interest.”

SPJ San Diego is looking for new recruits to join its team of whacky journalists dedicated to supporting San Diego’s journalism community.

Board members help plan events, judge other chapters’ contests and give input on the direction San Diego’s SPJ chapter takes in the future. We meet once a month and usually have one event a month, either a mixer, panel, or presentation.