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Region 2 Conference
Registration for the Region 2 Conference is $50 for students and $60 for pros. Lunch only is $37.
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The event starts with a reception Friday evening, March 31. Registration opens Saturday, April 1, at 8:45 a.m., followed by a full day of breakout sessions. Mark of Excellence Awards will be presented at the conference luncheon. For information contact Region 2 Coordinator Stephenie Overman.
Washington Post enterprise video reporter and on-air correspondent Joyce Koh will be this year’s keynote speaker April 1 at SPJ’s Region 2 Conference.
The conference, which will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, also features the Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards.
The conference will kick off March 31 with an evening reception. Saturday sessions will include “How (or Whether) to Use AI/ChatGPT in Reporting” and “Mining the Trade Journalism Job Market.”
Bonnie Newman Davis will lead a panel on “Fighting to be Heard.” Davis is managing editor of the Richmond Free Press and author of “Truth Tellers: The Power and Presence of Black Women Journalists Since 1960.”
Koh, an alumna of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, has covered the war in Ukraine, the 2020 presidential campaign, police brutality protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Trump administration, and the national opioid crisis. Prior to working at the Post, she covered the South Carolina state house as a television reporter.
Join Will Schick, editor-in-chief of Washington, D.C.’s Street Sense Media, for a panel discussion on covering homelessness with respect and sensitivity.
The panel will be presented online at 6 p.m. April 19 by SPJ Region 2. For more information, or to register for the event, click HERE.
Street Sense Media’s recently published “A journalist’s guide to covering homelessness” provides a list of broad principles and considerations for reporters. The guide draws its inspiration from the SPJ Code of Ethics.
Schick will be joined by two Baltimore Banner reporters. Sophie Kasakove is a housing reporter who previously covered housing and climate issues as a fellow on the national desk at the New York Times. Hallie Miller covers city and regional services. She is a Baltimore native who previously worked at The Baltimore Sun.
Street Sense Media former editorial director Eric Falquero will moderate the discussion. Falquero is now strategic partnerships editor at WAMU 88.5 in Washington, D.C
Looking for a Job?
Three Washington area editors who are hiring will discuss job possibilities during a free online program May 3 at 4 p.m.
The program, presented by SPJ Region 2, will be led by former SPJ National President Rebecca Baker, who is now editor at large for Bloomberg Tax/Bloomberg Industry Group in Washington. Bloomberg provides financial news to companies and organizations worldwide through Bloomberg News and Businessweek.
Thai Phi Le, senior managing editor at Industry Dive, will talk about jobs available at the company’s more than 30 publications. Industry Dive publications cover topics including banking, construction, education, fashion, food, healthcare, hotels, med-tech and retail.
Teresa Anderson is vice president of content, ASIS International, which covers the global security industry.
The editors especially are interested in recent graduates or those who have a few years of work experience for entry-level full-time roles, Baker said. They’re also looking for freelance writers.
For more information or to register
To get a link for the session, send an e-mail to soverman@spj.org
CHAPTER MEMBERS: Mark Your Calendar for an in-person gathering for the holiday season.
Join your SPJ DC Pro colleagues Tuesday, Dec. 5, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the National Press Club.
We’ll have a private meeting room, free snacks, cash bar. 🍷🍺
More info coming later.
North Carolina Chapter Zoom Event
Details coming soon.
Join the chapter and other journalists Friday, Oct. 4, at 5 p.m. to meet with 10 foreign journalists visiting the United States under the auspices of the World Press Institute. The gathering will be in the Cosgrove Lounge on the 14th floor of the National Press Club in downtown Washington (529 14th Street NW, 20045 near Metro Center station).
The DC chapter will provide some light snacks. Beverages will be available from a server, but you’ll pay for your own order.
The visiting journalists are coming from Brazil, Bulgaria, Finland, India, Italy, Kosovo, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa and Ukraine.
The World Press Institute, founded in 1961, has provided regular opportunities for journalists from around the world to visit the U.S. and compare notes with their American counterparts.
Please sign up for the event here.
Come celebrate the holiday season with your fellow members of the Washington, D.C., Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. We’ll also toast the near-arrival of the 234th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, our First Amendment birthdate.
We will provide the great New Orleans-style food — you just need to pay for anything you want to drink from the cash bar.
The Ragtime Restaurant is a 2–4-minute walk from the Court House Orange Line Metro station. You can’t get much more convenient than that.
We are aiming to grow our membership in these days when a strong, united voice from journalists committed to seeking truth and reporting it to the public is more important than ever. Bring a colleague who you think would be interested in joining.
This will be a great opportunity for chapter members to connect/re-connect, and for you to meet prospective members who may be our guests and tell them what membership means to you and why they should be part of our chapter and our mission. Spread the cheer, but also spread your enthusiasm for SPJ.
Sign up HERE to let us know you are coming.
Please note that you should respond using the form on the link above so we have your name and email address for any updates.