📢 Calling all student journalists and recent college grads!
SPJ is now accepting applications for The SPJ News, its immersive, student-led newsroom at the SPJ26 journalism convention in Columbus, Ohio. 🗞️🎥🎙️
⏰ Applications close 11:59 p.m. EDT June 30.
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🏆 Nominate them for the Sunshine Award — honoring individuals and groups for making important contributions in the area of open government.
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We at SPJ Colorado Pro have lost our brother, our mentor, our ethical soul. We mourn the passing of longtime SPJ leader Fred Brown. Our hearts go out to Fred's wife, Mary, and all who knew and worked with him. Our chapter will have more to share about Fred in the coming days.
📢 We want to hear from you!
SPJ Ethics Committee Member Jackie Padilla invites journalists and the public to take two surveys as the Committee considers updates to the SPJ Code of Ethics for its 100th anniversary.
✍️ Surveys close 11:59 p.m EDT April 12: linktr.ee/societyofpro...
SPJ joins a coalition led by TechFreedom in a letter condemning FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s latest threats against broadcasters as unconstitutional intimidation, particularly amid the administration’s call for treason prosecutions.
🔗Read more: bit.ly/3Nhm7nv
Are you a student journalist looking to implement public records in a story, but don’t know where to start? It’s #SunshineWeek, and we have the perfect resource!
No matter what state you're in, SPLC's Letter Generator will help you request the records you need. https://splc.org/lettergenerator/
Think journalism needs a new definition for the 21st century? Check out this survey seeking your feedback on a simple question: How should the Society of Professional Journalists upgrade its Code of Ethics? https://loom.ly/JkQYItY
🚨Today is the deadline to submit entries to SPJ’s New America Award, honoring journalism that explores and exposes issues of importance to immigrant or ethnic communities in the United States.
🏆Work from any platform is eligible.
⏰Enter your work now: bit.ly/4pj5lBV
A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.
The text reads "Deadline Extended! Submit your best work from 2025 by March 9, 2026 at bit.ly/spjdc-awards26." There is the Dateline Awards logo, which shows the Capitol dome in front of a blue ring with blue stars around the outside of it.
📣 Deadline Extension! There's still time to submit to SPJ-DC's Dateline Awards ⏰👀 get your work in by Monday, March 9!
Enter at bit.ly/spjdc-awards26
March is Women's History Month
Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...
Kudos to @socialsecurityworks.org for keeping this threat in the news. Now it’s a full page and a half in the NYT arts section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
The SPJ Legal Defense Fund Committee has approved $1,500 in support of Post Voice LLC, publisher of The Pender-Topsail Post & Voice, a local newspaper serving Pender County, North Carolina.
🔗Read the full press release: bit.ly/3Zk6TAk
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins’ first challenge in office was figuring out what to do with Section 24, a gang of immigration agents who were causing chaos with “highly visible and extreme” raids on immigrant communities.
So she defunded them.
More @thebaffler.com
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SPJ strongly condemns the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at the home of Hannah Natanson, a reporter for The Washington Post
Congress passed the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 to prevent this.
Press freedom isn’t a courtesy — it’s the law.
🔗Read more: bit.ly/4by2IIo
Today’s hearing featuring @raskin.house.gov and Jim Jordan should be well worth watching.
I will testify that rather than ban lawsuits by workers with silicosis, we should ban the product that is causing the disease.
Tune in at 10 AM ET at the link below.
SPJ joins Defending Rights & Dissent and more than 20 other press freedom and First Amendment organizations in calling on Congress to drop a subpoena for investigative journalist and author Seth Harp.
🔗Read the full letter: bit.ly/3ZboOcl
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."
Five years ago.
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
SPJ and its International Community condemn the conviction of Jimmy Lai, former media mogul, pro-democracy advocate and founder of the now-closed Apple Daily, under a national security law imposed by Beijing.
🔗Read the full statement: bit.ly/4aOmxec
Trump sent Vance there twice. He threatened to cut off all federal spending to the state. He vowed to back primary challengers of any Republican who voted against him here. He posted their names online, prompting his fans to send them death threats.
But all that failed, so now he wasn't involved.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Senate Republicans reject new congressional maps in defiance of Trump’s redistricting push.
SPJ has issued a formal letter to the White House expressing deep concern over the Administration’s new “media offenders” webpage, an official list that publicly targets journalists and news outlets for coverage it deems unfavorable.
🔗Read the full letter: bit.ly/48Ke3mW
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SPJ strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s latest attacks on journalists, including his disparaging treatment of Mary Bruce during Monday’s Oval Office press availability, and his recent “Quiet, piggy” insult aimed at Catherine Lucey.
🔗Read the full statement: www.spj.org/spj-statemen...
STUDENT JOURNALISTS: The SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards, honoring the best in student journalism, are now open for entries. Entries are first judged regionally. First-place regional winners advance to the national competition. Entry deadline: Feb. 11. Enter by Jan. 6 to save $5 on entry fees.
While I’m on the topic, the problem with both Thomas and Wolff was precisely their *failure* to follow the traditional norms and ethics that apply to reporting.
(You could say, fairly, that they’ve always been unevenly applied — but I think that just goes to my argument.)
