The Access Across America Tour comes to San Diego Wednesday, April 28, when the SPJ San Diego Pro Chapter sponsors “The Art of Access: Strategies for Getting and Using Public Records for Your Reporting.”
Are you stretched thin working on your daily stories, Web postings and extra responsibilities? Feel like you can’t do the kind of in-depth reporting you want? Or maybe you just want to improve your reporting skills and bolster your already stellar stories?
If you’re fortunate enough to still be gainfully employed in the journalism game, be sure to join or renew your SPJ membership. SPJ has been an industry leader for more than 100 years – working to protect your First Amendment rights, to guarantee your access to government records and meetings, and to help you weather the changes in the media industry.
Save the date for the 2010 SPJ Region 11 Spring Conference, set for May 1-3 in San Francisco.
The Northern California Pro Chapter will host the conference, which will be held on the campus of the University of San Francisco. The conference will include bonus programming co-sponsored by Independent Arts & Media, a non-profit that provides resources and support for media, arts and cultural programs that lack support from commercial media outlets and traditional arts institutions, which teamed up with the SPJ Nor Cal Pro Chapter to co-sponsor Journalism Innovations Expos in 2008 and 2009.
Mark your calendar and watch for more information.
Some of San Diego’s most well known women journalists shared then-and-now stories about women in the media at an SPJ program on “Women in Journalism” Nov. 12.
Carol LeBeau
The panel, moderated by former NBC 7/39 weather anchor Pat Brown and held at the University of San Diego’s Degheri Alumni Center, tackled everything from sexual harassment to sexy attire to work-life balance.
San Diego Society of Professional Journalists 