Society of Professional Journalists

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 […]

When: Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Working journalists can apply for a fellowship to attend the Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment May 12-17 at Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter.
You can study environmental issues in the context of South Florida, a subtropical world facing many of the same pressures found elsewhere in the U.S. – over-development, dwindling water, wetland losses, pollution, […]

In this column, Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post explains why there’s no “viable substitute” for the newspaper — even in this Internet Age.
Spike the Obit; Newspapers Still Rock

Westin Hotel, Fort Lauderdale
Board members present: Darcie Lunsford, Bill Hirschman, John Hopkins, Sylvia Gurinsky, Merwin Sigale, Beth Feinstein-Bartl
Committee chairs and representatives present: Tim Dodson (Sunshine State Awards), Michael Koretzky (student affairs)
Guests: Tim Collie (Sun-Sentinel)
Darcie called the meeting to order at 7:26 p.m.
SUNSHINE STATE AWARDS UPDATE
• Tim provided a timeline for the awards process through the […]

The meeting was called to order by President Darcie Lunsford at 7:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel in Broward County.
Board Members present: Sam Terilli, Sylva Gurinsky, Darcie Lunsford, Ron Levitt, Bill Hirschman, Beth Feinstein, Sergy Tabuteau, Jaime George, Julie Kay and Student Affairs committee chair Michael Koretzky.
President Lunsaford announced that Sunshine State […]

Westin Hotel, Fort Lauderdale
Board members present: Darcie Lunsford, Julie Kay, Bill Hirschman, Sylvia Gurinsky, Sergy Tabuteau
Committee chairs present: Oline Cogdill (scholarship), Michael Koretzky (student affairs)
Darcie called the meeting to order at 7:35 p.m.
SCHOLARSHIP REPORT
• Oline distributed a revised scholarship report, with one major change: requesting $1,400 for the top three students, up from $1,000 last […]

If you missed this year’s Sunshine State Awards dinner, you missed a good party and an important presentation by Phil Meyer, the research guru who teaches that good journalism is good business. Meyer’s presentation on May 19th was somewhat more hopeful than his book, The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism n the Information Age.
Meyer urged that […]