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NEWS from SPJ South Florida Pro Chapter Contact: Tim Dodson, tim@timdodson.com / 305-562-5796 2011 Sunshine State Awards Honor Florida’s Best Journalism HOLLYWOOD, Fla., June 11, 2011 – An Orlando Sentinel night police reporter in his first year as a journalist won top honors Saturday in the 2011 Sunshine State Awards. The statewide journalism competition, which recognizes Florida’s [...]
BrowardBulldog.org celebrated its first year of operation in style Tuesday evening at YOLO in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Attended by nearly 100 friends and supporters, the online newspaper’s first fundraising event raised more than $10,000 to help pay for additional reporters, photography and expanded coverage.
Miami Herald: Failed U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene sues two South Florida papers over coverage Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene accused The Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times in a libel lawsuit filed Wednesday of orchestrating a “plan to assassinate [his] character” that cost him the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Florida…
The annual SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference is coming to Vegas October 3 – 5, 2010. The conference is a fantastic opportunity for all journalists — veteran or newbie — to learn and stay ahead of the game in this ever-changing climate. We’ve crafted our event to be a place for journalists to learn [...]
Poynter: How to Increase Site Traffic Without Buying Advertising In the competition for page views, some news sites use paid advertising to attract traffic. There are a few reasons paying for traffic is often a losing game for news…
Miami New Times: Cop-Snapping Photog Carlos Miller Wins Appeal, Admits Second Arrest The case of Carlos Miller started in 2007 while he was on assignment as a photojournalist for a now-defunct website. He took some photos of police, refused their order that he stop, then found himself in succession with his head against…
Wasserman’s Blog: Keeping Online News Honest Should digital journalism be held to different standards of accuracy than other kinds of journalism? That’s a crude way of putting a knotty problem that confronts the widening ranks of people who do news and commentary online…
Miami Herald: New websites seek the scoop on local news and ads Finding a financially viable way to provide local news is a challenge large metropolitan newspapers are confronting. But a Coral Gables website is among a few locally with faith it can succeed. GablesHomePage.com launched in late October as a nonprofit online news and [...]
Juan O. Tamayo, who joined the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) earlier this year as a Research Associate has returned to full-time journalism as a staff writer at El Nuevo Herald, reporting on Latin America. As a result, he has decided to resign from his position at ICCAS. “My warmest thanks to ICCAS, [...]
Reporters become entrepreneurs in wake of job cuts Nationwide staff cuts at media outlets around the country are prompting a new breed of independent news organizations to pop up. With more than 14,000 media-related jobs…