Thanks to all who came out to the Utah SPJ party (the power outage was, well, strange). Here’s the list of winners: Clifford P Cheney Service Winner KSL-TV’s Ed YeatesRoy B. Gibson FOI Winner Salt Lake Tribune’s Dan HarrieDon Baker Investigative Winners: SL Trib Investigating the Deadly Collapse of the Logan Canal Matthew D. LaPlante, … More The winners…

The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will be holding its annual awards banquet Friday, June 11, 2010 at the University of Utah’s Officers Club. The party begins at 6:30 p.m. Dinner is $30 in advance, $40 at the door. RSVP and pay via PayPal here: Special thanks to City Weekly for … More Utah SPJ Awards Banquet!

2/6/10 Utah SPJ Board Meeting Minutes Offices of the Intermountain Catholic newspaper Members present: Linda Petersen, Marie Mischel, Don Meyers, Allison Barlow-Hess, Jim Fisher, Ben Winslow, Amy K. Stewart, Tom Haraldsen, Maria Titze Approval of minutes for December, January. 1- Legislature/XChange update (Joel Campbell) Joel is on speakerphone with a legislative update. Linda brings up … More February Board Meeting minutes

Now is the time to pull out your award-winning story, photo, blog, and get ready for the Utah Headliners Journalism Awards Contest. Deadline is Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. Here is the category descriptions and entry form, you can type right onto the form. If you are a member of SPJ you get a break on … More Deadline Friday!

Call for Sunshine/Black Hole Award nominations Are you dealing with a “black hole” that swallows up public records or shuts the public out of meetings? Or is there someone you think has been a ray of “sunshine” at keeping government open? The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists would like to know … More Let the Sunshine In! (or not)

Minutes from Dec. 5 SPJ minutes – Members present: Amy K. Stewart, Trent Nelson, Tom Haraldsen, Linda Petersen, Allison Barlow-Hess, Ben Winslow, Jim Fisher, Don Meyers Video Update: Linda is working on a video on open government laws for high school students. However, it has been postponed until Jan. 9. Legislature Update: Linda reports that … More December SPJ Meeting minutes

The Utah State courts out a letter recently that abruptly cut off free media access to XChange, thanks to some quick work by SPJ board members, the courts have agreed to a comment period. The webpage for comment is http://www.utcourts.gov/resources/rules/comments/ . The particular rule, Rule 4-202.08 is part of the 4th entry down, under Code … More URGENT message from Utah SPJ President Allison Barlow-Hess:

Now is the time to pull out your award-winning story, photo, blog, and get ready for the Utah Headliners Journalism Awards Contest. Deadline is Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. Here is the category descriptions and entry form, you can type right onto the form. If you are a member of SPJ you get a break on … More CALL FOR ENTRIES!