Society of Professional Journalists

Journalists in search of inspiration found it at last night’s 2008 Sunshine State Awards. They heard it in the words of keynote speakers Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. And, they saw it on the faces of colleagues honored for their outstanding contribution to journalism in the state of Florida. Fainaru-Wada and Williams, the San Francisco Chronicle investigative team that exposed the explosive BALCO steroid scandal in

The South Florida SPJ recognized the deserving winners of its 2008 Sunshine State Awards at a banquet tonight at the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel in Dania, Florida. A detailed report of the event will be posted here tomorrow. In the meantime, you can review the list of winners by clicking the links below.

Judges across the nation are wrapping up their judging of the 958 entries received in this year’s Sunshine State Awards competition. The South Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists released a partial list of the finalists today. Results for the remaining 18 categories should be released early next week. In […]

The winners of this year’s Sunshine State Awards will be announced on Saturday, May 31st at the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel.

AJR Senior Editor Carl Sessions Stepp explains why it is time to “launch a counteroffensive to preserve serious journalism.
Maybe it is Time to Panic

FORT LAUDERDALE — Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru Wada, the San Francisco Chronicle investigative team that exposed the explosive BALCO steroid scandal, are slated to speak at the 14th annual Sunshine State Awards banquet sponsored by the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

In this column, Jonathan Dube examines CNN’s ireport.com. The article includes a brief interview with Susan Grant, EVP of CNN News Services.
Behind CNN’s New Citizen Media Site

Alessandra Stanley on the “Post-It Note” mentality of network news.
TV Networks Resort to the Crawl Instead of Real News Coverage

You can register now at the national SPJ website for the regional conference, planned for March 28-29 in Columbia, S.C.

Julie Kay has been named president of the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Kay is an award-winning South Florida journalist who covers the southeast United States for the National Law Journal. She previously worked for the Daily Business Review for seven years, where she authored a weekly column entitled “Justice Watch.” Kay […]