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Join Us: First Meeting of 2012 SPJ South Florida Pro is having their first chapter meeting of 2012 on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 7:30 pm at Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton. It is an open meeting and all are encouraged to attend to discuss upcoming networking events, continuing education, and the coveted Sunshine State Awards. [...]
In accordance with our chapter bylaws, this notice is being posted to our website 30 days prior to the chapter’s annual meeting on Dec. 12. Nominating Jason Parsley has reviewed the candidates’ bios and verified their membership status and eligibility to serve. A brief summary of qualifications of each candidate for office is provided below. [...]
At last month’s Excellence in Journalism 2011 convention in New Orleans, SPJ South Florida Pro President Michael Koretzky was elected to Region 3 director. He now serves chapters in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. Student member Gideon Grudo, Editor-in-Chief of the University Press at Florida Atlantic University, was elected to one of two Campus Representative [...]
The day before Halloween, SPJ South Florida got some candy: One of its projects won a national award. The chapter sponsored the Unethical Press at Florida Atlantic University. The FAU paper, the University Press, celebrated SPJ Ethics Week in April by violating as many of the SPJ Code of Ethics as humanly possible. At the annual [...]
Choose Your Leaders, Nosh on Free Food On Monday, Dec. 12, come join your chapter representatives and members at Southport Raw Bar in Fort Lauderdale for our annual election meeting at 7:15 p.m. Food will be provided. All chapter members are encouraged to attend and vote for the 2012 board. If you are interested in running [...]
Last week, SPJ South Florida Pro was honored with the Circle of Excellence – Campus Relations and Scholarship award for the chapter’s involvement in campus events and scholarship activities. From the release: The South Florida Pro chapter is honored in the Campus Relations and Scholarship category. During SPJ Ethics Week in April, the chapter sponsored [...]
When our chapter decided to support our president’s venture to teach his students at Florida Atlantic University the history of journalism, we knew it wouldn’t be a lecture in a classroom. SPJ South Florida Pro President Michael Koretzky wanted students to know what it was like to exist in a world without computers. As volunteer [...]
<a href=”http://storify.com/spjsofla/july-meetup-writing-for-the-web-and-seo” target=”_blank”>View “July Meet-up: Writing for the Web and SEO” on Storify</a>Meet-ups are held every other month at various venues across South Florida. If you would like to host, sponsor, or present a future chapter meet-up, please contact Executive Vice President Michele Boyet.
Throwing a story online and expecting readers to flock to it just doesn’t cut it anymore in today’s media world. Now, stories need an extra level of care to shine online. Learn the basics of search-engine-optimization and what works when writing for the Web from some of South Florida’s leading online journalists at SPJ’s July [...]
In 2009, SPJ South Florida took a risk by sponsoring the inaugural Will Write For Food program. Held during our Region 3 Conference in Hollywood, the program took students who traveled from across the state and put them in the COSAC Homeless Shelter newsroom where the Homeless Voice is produced. Students wrote, recorded, edited, copy- [...]