Society of Professional Journalists

Florida International University journalism professor Neil Reisner’s students are blogging from the IRE conference in Miami. Check out their thoughts here.

The Daily Show online?
The Webcasting trend is not pleasing the large cable operators. Indeed, when Glenn Britt, the chief executive of Time Warner Cable, was asked recently how he feels about the cable networks putting more content online, he said “Guess what? We do mind.”
The Real Fight Over Fake News

During the first 10 weeks of 2007, Iraq accounted for 23 percent of the newshole for network TV news. In 2008, it plummeted to 3 percent during that period. On cable networks it fell from 24 percent to 1 percent, according to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Whatever Happened to Iraq?

Tom Fiedler, former executive editor at the Miami Herald and former South Florida SPJ member, has been named dean of the Boston University College of Communication. Fiedler worked at the Herald for 30 years, as an investigative reporter, a political columnist, the editorial page editor, and, finally, the executive editor from 2001 to 2007. He […]

Notes on the Society of Professional Journalists Region 3 Spring Conference 2008
Beth Anne Carr
The theme of building the newsroom of the future, starting today, dominated the presentations of the Society of Professional Journalists Region 3 Spring conference held in March at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. The future was the topic in more […]

The Senate Thursday night voted, without debate, to invalidate the Federal Communications Commission’s Dec. 18 decision to loosen the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule.
Senate Votes to Block FCC’s Cross-Ownership Rule Change

Phil Lewis, editor of the Naples Daily News, writes about talk of dismantling FIU’s journalism school in the wake of budget cuts, and what the school’s thousands of Latin American graduates mean to the community.
Not Just a J-School at Stake

Several years ago, the Florida newspaper market was a hotbed for advertising, fueled by the real estate boom of the early 2000s. But in the years since, the housing market’s bust has taken the Sunshine State from one of the best, albeit most competitive, places to publish a newspaper to one of the hardest ones in which to do business

Leaders of the Society of Professional Journalists today urged the nation’s media to hold their military analysts to the same ethical standards journalists are required to meet concerning potential conflicts of interest, financial ties and relationships with government agencies.
SPJ leaders also expressed outrage at what an April 20 New York Times story revealed to be […]

The Society of Professional Journalists announces the finalists for the 58th annual Green Eyeshade Awards.
This regional journalism competition recognizes outstanding journalism in 11 southeastern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
The finalists will be honored and first-place winners announced at a banquet in late June in […]