ICFJ will host three webinars about road safety prevention in three different languages –English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with one webinar per language from June through August 2024. Please check this link to register for the webinar.
- Road Safety Webinar (English) – Tuesday, July 9th, 2024.
- Road Safety Webinar (Spanish) – Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024.
- Road Safety Webinar (Portuguese) – Tuesday, August 6th, 2024.
After the webinar series, ICFJ will open applications for applicants to submit a story related to road safety. The best story will receive a prize, which will help the winner continue developing their work as a journalist.
For more about the competition click HERE
The International Community of the SPJ will be holding an online get together to just chat and meet each other. There are no official speeches and no agenda other than to try to draw the IC membership a bit closer together.
Join the IC online by clicking HERE.
John Maxwell Hamilton, journalist, author and journalism professor, has agreed to talk about the history of American foreign reporting, local/global story possibilities and his assessment of the current way US media outlets cover international events. We will also get to his book about the cocktail, The French 75.
Register for this event sponsored by the SPJ International Community HERE.
John Maxwell Hamilton, a longtime journalist, author and public servant, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication and a global scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
As a journalist, Hamilton reported for the Milwaukee Journal, The Christian Science Monitor and ABC radio. He was a longtime commentator for MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs and The Nation, among other publications.
In the course of his career, Hamilton has had assignments in more than 50 countries. In addition to covering foreign news, Hamilton has written extensively on foreign correspondence and sought to improve it. In the mid-1980s, he created and directed a Society of Professional Journalists project to develop techniques for local reporting of foreign news, especially on relations with developing countries. He later contributed to a similar project for the American Society of Newspaper Editors. In the 1980s, National Journal said Hamilton has shaped public opinion about the complexity of U. S.-Third World relations “more than any other single journalist.”
Hamilton is author or co-author of seven books and editor of many more. “Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting.” won the Goldsmith Prize from the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Book of the Year Award from the American Journalism Historians Association/
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.
Register HERE.
Join Freedom House for the launch of Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online. Following a presentation on key findings from the 2024 report, experts will discuss global trends, country-specific developments, and best practices for how to protect internet freedom.
SPJ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY GLOBAL FACT-CHECKING WEBINAR: While all good journalists know to fact-check their stories, independent fact-checking organizations have sprung up around the world to address the increased misinformation being promoted in social media and by many political figures. Join the IC for its “Fact-Checking — A Global Update” webinar at 7 p.m. EST Tuesday. Speakers will include Angie Holan, director of the International Fact Checking Network, and Dulamkhorloo Baatar, founder of NEST Mongolia, the Mongolian affiliate with the IFCN. Retired journalist and educator Jeff South will moderate the session. Registration is required.
Join the SPJ International Community and the Washington DC SPJ chapter for an online discussion with Kirstin McCudden, Vice President of Editorial at Freedom of the Press Foundation and Managing Editor at US Press Freedom Tracker, about these and other threats to press freedom in the United States.
Monday, February 10 at 6pm ET
Register HERE.
Challenges to the independence of the news media, statements designed to warn off journalists from certain stories and outright physical threats are on the rise in the United States.
There were 314 incidents of violations of press freedom in the United States during 2024, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. The actions ranged from the Kansas legislature banning reporting from the House floor to a Colorado reporter being choked outside his TV station to numerous search orders against news organizations.
Things are not expected to look much better in 2025. Already Trump Administration officials have threatened increased investigations into leaks to the press; more criminal prosecution of journalists and stepped-up government surveillance of the press. A recent report from the Department of Justice Inspector General report detailed the illicit seizures of reporters records during 2020-2021.
Recent moves by the Pentagon have already taken back desk space used by long-time news organizations such as the New York Times and National Public Radio. The spaces were given to other non-traditional news groups, some of whom do not yet have a dedicated Pentagon correspondent.
The conversation facilitator will be Nerissa Young a professor of instruction in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and a 31-year member of the Society of Professional Journalists. She advises the 10-time national SPJ campus chapter of the year at Ohio University. Young teaches International Mass Media and Foreign Correspondence courses, among others. She previously taught journalism at Oklahoma State University, Shepherd University and Marshall University, where she earned her master’s degree in journalism.
For details – https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom
Offered by New England First Amendment Coalition
The NEFC provides reporters, watchdogs and other curious community members the knowledge they can use immediately in news gathering, data collection, storytelling and other areas of journalism and First Amendment law.
The lessons are provided in a 30-minute format to accommodate the demanding schedules faced by many working in New England newsrooms. The program is free and open to the public.
Registration for each lesson is required.
Immigration Reporting 101 session led by Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio
The Boston Globe
McDonnell Nieto del Rio joined The Boston Globe in July 2024 as an immigration reporter. At the Globe, she has reported on migrants struggling to find shelter in Massachusetts amidst the state’s housing crisis, how federal immigration policies have affected local residents, and on the impact of immigration enforcement changes on Massachusetts communities, among other issues. Previously, she worked as an immigration reporter at Documented, a nonprofit news site that covers New York City’s immigrant communities and policies that affect them. At Documented, she covered the migrant crisis in New York extensively, and published stories about the conditions in city-run shelters, the exploitation of newly-arrived migrant workers, and the effects of housing instability on migrant families. She also covered immigration detention and immigration courts. Before that, she was a national reporting fellow for the New York Times, writing about any and all national news — including COVID-19, the 2020 election, mass shootings and extreme weather events. McDonnell Nieto del Rio is a native Spanish speaker and has reported on breaking news as an intern for her hometown paper, the Los Angeles Times. She has also worked for CNN in New York and Washington D.C. She holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Williams College, and earned her master’s from Columbia Journalism School.