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“If you want to gain respect inside the journalistic community and even from those you cover, that’s far easier to do by being a tough but fair reporter than it is by being a stenographer to CEOs,” The New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson said during Minnesota SPJ’s 2015 Page One Awards Banquet. By Christopher Snowbeck For a second consecutive year,…
The Minnesota Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information (MNCOGI) oppose a provision of the Senate HHS Omnibus bill relating to the classification of birth record data. In particular, we oppose language (found in lines 203.20-203.21 and 234.13-234.18) that would deprive the public of access to long-standing public information regarding birth records.…
The Minnesota Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is outraged over the Minnesota Department of Corrections policy to ban on-camera interviews and still photography from consenting inmates. As the old saying goes, “Seeing is believing.” And that is especially true when it comes to life behind bars for the nearly 10,000 human beings incarcerated in Minnesota. Read James Eli Shiffer’s…
Check out the new online interactive history of SPJ that was recently added to SPJ.org. This cool feature allows people to explore the amazing history of SPJ in a way that is more interesting than a static list of events and presidents. The timeline is the work of Jennifer Peebles, an SPJ member in Virginia and a dedicated volunteer. She undertook the…
The 2015 Page One Banquet will celebrate the best in Minnesota journalism from 2014! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker, Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and a columnist at the New York Times. Ms. Morgenson has covered the world financial markets for the Times since May 1998 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive”…
Proceeds fund scholarships for journalism students. By Christopher Snowbeck The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists is collecting items for our seventh annual Page One Awards Silent Auction. All the proceeds will benefit MNSPJ’s Student Scholarship fund, which helps us provide scholarships to journalism students to help pay for their education.We are looking for media outlets, businesses, restaurants, event centers, sports…
By The Associated Press David L. Pyle, a longtime bureau chief, news editor and reporter during his 33-year career with The Associated Press, has died. He was 61. Pyle, who worked for the news cooperative in five states, most of it as bureau chief in Minnesota and Wisconsin, died at his home Monday in the St. Paul suburb of Apple…
By Sarah Bauer This year, the Minnesota Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists teamed up with the Minnesota Newspaper Association to celebrate Sunshine Week across the state of Minnesota. Sunshine Week 2015 was last week. An annual event, Sunshine Week calls on journalists to shed light on issues of open government and have conversations with their readers about the importance…
The National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) is looking for instructors for its annual high school summer journalism workshop, July 24-26 at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. This three-day event pulls in students from Minnesota and around the country to attend sessions arranged around different interest tracks. Instructors would be involved in teaching basic and intermediate skills to students in their tracks,…
The Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is seeking candidates to run for board of the directors. Volunteer board members serve a two-year term and make decisions for the state chapter. Responsibilities include monthly board meetings plus planning and organizing events and programs to support a mission of improving and protecting journalism. Eligible candidates must be an SPJ…