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GENERAL GUIDELINES The fee is $22 per entry. Entries must be submitted no later than Friday, February 24, 2017. All work published or broadcast during the 2016 calendar year is eligible. Journalists (including freelancers and contract employees) working for all print, broadcast and online news outlets in Minnesota (or news outlets in neighboring states that cover Minnesota) are eligible to…
1. NEWSPAPER a. Spot News (One or more stories covering a single spot news event) b. Meeting/Planned news event (One or more stories covering a single news event that was known in advance.) c. Feature (A single feature story) d. Enterprise/In-Depth (One or more stories on a single topic or news event that reflects reporter’s ingenuity, use of sources or special research that help the…
The Minnesota pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists salutes former journalists who have moved on to new adventures. In this ongoing series, we invite newsies to reflect on their time in the news business. Our third entry is from Dave Aeikens, who worked in Minnesota newsrooms for more than two decades: What I miss the most: The uncertainty and surprises…
Reporters Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark of APM Reports spent a year investigating the case of Jacob Wetterling, the 11-year-old St. Joseph, Minn., boy who was kidnapped in 1989 and whose disappearance remained unsolved for 27 years. The culmination of their work, “In the Dark,” was named as one of the Top 10 podcasts of the year by the New…
The Minnesota pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists salutes former journalists who have moved on to new adventures. In this ongoing series, we invite newsies to reflect on their time in the news business. Our second entry is from Emily Gurnon, who worked as a newspaper reporter for two decades: After 20 years working as a newspaper reporter, I left my…
The Minnesota pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists salutes former journalists who have moved on to new adventures. In this ongoing series, we invite newsies to reflect on their time in the news business. Here is the first entry, from John Welsh, who spent two decades in the trade: Here’s what I miss most: the non-fatal fire. In 20-plus years of…
The Bemidji Pioneer recently sent reporter Grace Pastoor to the anti-pipeline demonstrations at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The protests drew a handful of residents from Bemidji, the deep-woods northern Minnesota city with a significant indigenous population and a history of environmental activism. The story, this month’s Minnesota Sampler, can be read here.
Join the Society of Professional Journalists for a public forum on the Minnesota Data Practices Act. The forum, which will be held Dec. 8 at at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, will include a panel of journalists and state administrators who will share their thoughts about collecting public data and interacting with public officials.…
Join the Minnesota SPJ pro chapter for it’s annual “Off the Record” holiday party! All journalists (and friends of journalists!) are welcome. “Off the Record” holiday party When: 7-10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15. Where: Pizza Luce, 119 N. 4th St., Minneapolis. Details: Cash bar; SPJ will supply the food No RSVP is necessary, but visit us on Facebook and let us…
A panel of Minnesota’s Pulitzer Prize winners weighed the public’s declining trust in media at a packed event Thursday night. The reception and panel, hosted by the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, drew about 200 people to the Guthrie Theater to honor the 100th anniversary of the prizes and hear how its winners think journalism might rebuild…