CONTEST OPEN!
You’ve waited patiently… and it’s finally time to get your best work of 2025 together, because the annual SPJ Region 10 Excellence in Journalism Contest is open!
HARD DEADLINE: 8:59 p.m. PST, March 2. (No extensions this year!)
https://t.co/hSWGXQAr3H
Come join SPJ Western Washington for a night in Tacoma! We'll be there to chat about what resources, workshops and events you’d like to see this year.
This evening is for journalists 21+ from 6:30-9 pm at Devil’s Reef at 706 Court C.
https://t.co/fktCN0tJ80
Seattle IRE is launching its third year of IRE meetups in Seattle — a community of investigative reporters, editors, public records hounds, data diggers and watchdogs of every stripe. And SPJ Western Washington is joining as co-sponsor!
RSVP at https://t.co/17oug0Dgon
This Thursday!
Join us at Neighbours Nightclub to celebrate the winners of the 2024 NW Excellence in Journalism Awards contest, featuring speaker Marcus Harrison Green -- publisher of the South Seattle Emerald and award-winning writer.
https://t.co/xiDDEXpoKc
We’re still looking for people who want to help us promote, improve and celebrate journalism at SPJ Western Washington by joining our Board of Directors.
We’ve pushed the deadline to October 10. Please sign up!
https://t.co/eO6raQNhUv
We're looking for new board members! Please consider joining the SPJ-WA Board of Directors and helping us support our region's hardworking journalists.
https://t.co/IqcoQFVwgp
Excited to announce my article for @RealChangeNews, “Undoing Seattle’s spatialized apartheid,” just won first place in racial equity reporting in the small publication category at the Northwest SPJ awards.
Thank you so much @SPJWash for the recognition! It really means a lot 🥰
almost a year after the layoffs, we won 1st place in @SPJWash environmental & natural disaster reporting for last year's coverage of the 10-year anniversary of the Oso mudslide.
proud of this team :,)
POSTPONED: We're pushing this event back to June 11! Tomorrow is too soon for giving you all enough notice, and it's supposed to be a scorcher. We're hoping you can join us, same time and same place, two weeks from this Wednesday.
THIS WEDNESDAY: Catch up with fellow journalists at our regular mixer: 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 28 at Moss Bay in Kirkland (111 Central Way). Come meet your peers reporting in Washington! (Sorry for the short event notice!)
THIS WEDNESDAY: Catch up with fellow journalists at our regular mixer: 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 28 at Moss Bay in Kirkland (111 Central Way). Come meet your peers reporting in Washington! (Sorry for the short event notice!)
FINAL EXTENSION: The contest submission deadline has been extended for the second and final time, to Monday March 24, 2025 at 9 p.m. Pacific Time.
Please don't delay! Get your entries in.
https://t.co/9O4UwVnTFb
ProJourn’s mission is to increase the supply of pro bono attorneys trained in pre-publication review and access to public records — two of the most critical editorial legal needs of journalists — and to meet the legal demands newsrooms face in an ever-changing news landscape.
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REMINDER: This evening at 6:30 on Zoom, join us for a legal training with @ProJourn to learn about your rights as a journalist! https://t.co/Qf3ZjWlumn
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Do you know your legal rights as a journalist? Join us on Tuesday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m., for a discussion with @ProJourn, a nonprofit that works w/journalists, news orgs, and documentary filmmakers to ensure their crucial work is supported when needed by pro bono attorneys. 1/2
DEADLINE EXTENDED
The SPJ Region 10 Excellence in Journalism Award Contest remains open and now has a new deadline.
The contest submission deadline has been extended to March 21, 2025 at 9 p.m. Pacific Time. Questions? Contact contest manager Becky Day at [email protected]