July 2 First Amendment Happy Hour
Join your fellow journalists for a pre-Independence Day happy hour, celebrating a free press (and beer)! Snacks will be provided by SPJ. No-host bar.
Lucky Labrador Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby, Portland
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Winners of SPJ’s 2008 journalism awards are now online here.
May 30 Annual Awards Banquet
Congratulations to all the winners in the Region 10 Excellence in Journalism competition and the Oregon/SW Washington contest for nondaily newspapers. We’ll celebrate the best work of 2008 with the annual awards banquet May 30 at the Oregon Zoo. Go here for registration details or contact wculverwell (at) yahoo (dot) com for information.
This is a great time to get involved in your local chapter.
The annual membership meeting precedes the banquet, at 6 p.m. May 30 in the Oregon Zoo banquet room. If you’re interested in getting involved or joining the board, let us know.
The banquet starts at 6 p.m. with a no-host happy hour. The buffet dinner, with vegetarian and vegan options, starts at 6:30 p.m. and the awards program starts at 7 p.m. KGW’s intrepid business reporter Joe Smith of KGW is our emcee this year.
The banquet honors winners of the annual SPJ journalism contest as well as our two Robert Chandler Rookie of the Year award winners, the First Freedom Award and the Bruce Baer Award for investigative reporting.
SPJ wants to hear from you! Please take a minute to complete our online survey and let us know how this chapter can best meet your needs in the coming year.
Oct. 24: Third annual SPJ Building a Better Journalist conference
SPJ Oregon/SW Washington returns to the University of Oregon for the third annual Building a Better Journalist conference, offering a full day of workshops and discussions about journalism. Watch this site for details. Even better: Tell us what you want to learn and who you want to learn it from. Email: wculverwell@bizjournals.com
Revisit this Event: The Future of News
The Future of News from SPJ Oregon/SW Washington on Vimeo.
This conversation about the future of news unfolded at the Building a Better Journalist workshop, Oct. 25, 2008, in Eugene, Ore. Moderated by Rob Smith, editor of the Portland Business Journal, the discussion featured: Steve Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica; Steve Smith, former editor of the Spokesman-Review; Frank Mungeam, online editor at KGW.
