Submit your name by Nov. 22 As the year comes to an end, we get to participate in a tradition that is a cornerstone of our community and country. Elections. It’s once again time to hold board elections for your SPJ Rio Grande chapter. We have a total of 11 Read more…
Journalists have a constitutional right and responsibility to report all news, including protests. It’s an outage to learn local and long-time journalist Bryant Furlow and his wife, photographer Tara Armijo-Prewitt, were arrested on Wednesday while covering a protest at the University of New Mexico and kept in custody for 12 Read more…
Members of the public have a right to know what their elected officials are doing and how they are chosen. Reporters like Fish stand in for the public and its interests when they attend meetings like party conventions.
Wednesday morning, the SPJ chapter in Florida sent out an email to all of the SPJ members it could find across the nation, reporting in detail on the deep, deep insolvency of the national SPJ organization. If you received this, you know the story. If not, long story short: The Read more…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Ronchetti spent the better part of 25 years in TV newsrooms. While many might view his meteorologist job as only journalism-adjacent, he was close to journalists for long enough to learn that towing a party line is the work of propagandists: real journalists ask uncomfortable questions. Read more…
Journalists and public information officers naturally butt heads in the name of protecting different interests. However, decency and respect during any interaction between the two is of utmost importance.