Minutes of the February SPJ D.C. Pro Chapter Board Meeting
Thursday, February 17, 2022 Virtual meeting held via video conference on Zoom. Present: President Randy Showstack; Vice President Dee Ann Divis; Treasurer Dan Kubiske; Corresponding Secretary Amy Fickling; Recording Secretary…
March 24: Social media for journalists: How to turn a potential liability into a professional asset
Photo by Piotr Cichoszon, via Unsplash.com SPJ DC Pro interviews Kassy Cho, founder and editor-in-chief of Almost, an Instagram-based media platformThursday, March 24, at 7 p.m. online You’re invited to this one-hour Zoom webinar to…
Gatekeeping continues to prevent the flow of government information to journalists, public
PRESS RELEASE March 14, 2022 CONTACT:Kathryn Foxhall, SPJ Freedom of Information Committee Vice Chair, 301-779-8239, kfoxhall@verizon.netJennifer Royer, SPJ Director of Communications and Marketing, 317-361-4134, jroyer@spj.org INDIANAPOLIS – Editor’s Note: The following column was…
SPJ DC Pro Chapter hosts with DCOGC March 16 virtual panel on access to MPD information, body-worn camera videos; Chief Robert Contee a confirmed speaker
Transparency of the Metropolitan Police Department will be the focus of the 2022 D.C. Open Government Summit March 16 at 6:30 p.m., via Zoom. Chief Robert J. Contee III, who took the helm at the…
What to do when public information officers restrict access to school information? Panel to advise, March 16
(Information is from the National Press Club Journalism Institute) America’s public schools are coming under unusually strong attention from the general public — scrutiny communities typically rely on journalists…