Check out this open letter from SPJ President Sonny Albarado to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The letter answers Holder’s invitation to attend one of a series of off-the-record policy meetings at the Department of Justice, in response to the DOJ’s seizure of Associated Press phone records. Read Albarado’s letter here, and visit spj.org for updates.
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SPJ President: DOJ violated its own policy in seizing AP phone records
Posted: 9th June 2013 by McKenzie Romero in FOI Alerts!, SPJ happenings...0
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SAVE THE DATE—The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will be presenting our 2011 SPJ Awards for excellence in journalism on Friday, June 15. This year, rather than a formal dinner, the awards will be presented during an open house/reception to be held at the Officer’s Club at Ft. Douglas, on the [...]
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Here’s a list of the finalists for the SPJ Region 9 “Top of the Rockies” awards. Congratulations to all. The awards ceremony will be held Friday, April 13 at the Denver Press Club. RSVP by clicking on this link. 5280 Patrick Doyle Amanda Falson Luck Hatlestad Lindsey B. Koehler Megan Feidman Robert Sanchez James [...]
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Our next SPJ Board meeting will be one week from tonight, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. I am finalizing a location. This shouldn’t be a very long meeting—I’m hoping we can finish by about 8 p.m. This time, I will be bringing some drinks and perhaps some snack foods—chips, salsa, etc., but not a dinner. [...]
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From SUU News and the University Journal: New York Times national correspondent Richard Oppel Jr. will be speaking at SUU on Feb. 23. Details can be found on the pdf we’ve posted here: Richard Oppel, Jr. speaking engagement