From the Cincinnati Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists…

	Cincinnati Professional Chapter *Online OnPress*
	January 13, 2005 ▪ A periodic online newsletter
	enews@cincyspj.org ▪ More than 700 subscribers

Journalists to gather for first monthly social

The Cincinnati Pro Chapter is proud to announce the first monthly journalist social. Designed to bring journalists together in an informal, low-key and relaxed setting, SPJ will each month sponsor an event at a local venue. The social will move each month and be posted here and e-mailed to the SPJ e-mail list.

Our first social will be at Bella Cincinnati, 600 Walnut St., downtown. Happy hour, with reduced priced domestic and import beers, wine and featured martinis, will end at 8 p.m. Bella will provide complimentary hors d'oeuvres 7-8 p.m. All monthly socials will be free to attend.

WHEN:	6:30-9 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 20, 2005
WHERE:	Bella Cincinnati, 600 Walnut St. (next to the Aronoff Center)
COST:	Free
INFO:	programs@cincyspj.org

New York Post gossip columnist Paula Froelich to address local journalists

Think going to endless parties in New York City and getting to write about the guests’ bad behavior is fun? Ever decide to challenge Tara Reid to a Jello smack-down to settle a score about something written in your column? If you have, you might be Paula Froelich, the Cincinnati-raised and former Walnut Hills High School student who now writes for the famous Page Six at the New York Post.

Froelich will be in Cincinnati to speak to local journalists about her current job and her career, which included a stint writing for Dow Jones and Derivatives Weekly. She credits her Post editors with “saving my life” when they hired her to write New York gossip. Froelich has just written her first book, “IT!: Nine Secrets of the Rich and Famous That’ll Take You to the Top” ($21.95, Miramax Books). It will be released April 20, 2005.

Froelich is one of three by-lined reporters covering gossip news at the Post. She is also a correspondent for TV show “Entertainment Tonight.” For more information and a photo of Paula, visit the chapter’s Web page, www.cincyspj.org.

WHEN:	7-9 p.m., Fri., Feb. 25, 2005
WHERE:	Location to be announced
COST:	Free
INFO:	programs@cincyspj.org

High school students plan journalism conference with Pulitzer Prize winner

The Tri-State Student Journalists Association, a group of Greater Cincinnati area high school journalists interested in media careers, have planned a journalism conference that will put participants face-to-face with 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner, Tim Gallagher, among others. Presenters also include local and regional journalists, including keynote speaker Rick Boehne, executive vice president of The E.W. Scripps Co.; Hollis Towns, managing editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer; Beryl Love, general manager and editor at CinWeekly; Hagit Limor, I-Team reporter at WCPO; Michael Flannery of WCPO; Dean Hume, journalism adviser at Lakota East High School; Ken Broo, sports broadcaster at WLWT; Paul Daugherty, sports columnist at The Cincinnati Enquirer; Sarah Ortman, media law expert; Julie Fitzgerald, style reporter at CinWeekly; Joe Hoffecker, editorial cartoonist at the Business Courier; J. Bruce Baumann, executive editor at the Evansville Courier and Press; Pat Crowley, political reporter and columnist at The Kentucky Enquirer; Mary Carmen Cupito, instructor at Northern Kentucky University; Ron Cosby, graphics editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer; and Marie Schneider, assistant editor at Writer's Digest, F&W Publications, among others.

Organizers are looking for not just registrants, but additional professionals to help the day of the event. Help is needed in answering questions, attending sessions and other pre-conference work. To offer assistance, e-mail tsj@cincinnati.com. The Cincinnati Pro Chapter also is requesting help to host an information table the day of the event. To volunteer, contact president@cincyspj.org.

TSJA will be offering 18 different workshops on a wide variety of topics, including sports casting, photography, investigative reporting, student press law and blogging as a new form of journalism.

To download the registration form, click this link: http://www.cincyspj.org/Downloads/TSJA/register.doc

WHEN:	12:15-5 p.m., Sat., Feb. 26, 2005
WHERE:	Mariemont High School, 3812 Pocahontas Ave.
COST:	Free for professionals and teachers; $10 for students
INFO:	www.tristatestudentjouranlists.com or tsj@cincinnati.com

Sign petition to protect journalists who shield sources

Groups representing journalists are joining together to gather thousands of signatures on a statement in support of more than half-a-dozen reporters who currently face the threat of heavy fines or jail time for refusing to reveal confidential sources.

Reporters from Time, the Washington Post and The New York Times are among those currently under subpoena to reveal news sources they have promised to keep confidential. (For more information on those court cases, click http://www.rcfp.org/federal_subpoenas/subpoenas.html here.)

Leaders of the groups sponsoring the petition drive, which also include the American Society of Newspaper Editors, SPJ, AFTRA and the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of Press, are aiming to get more than 10,000 U.S. journalists to sign on before presenting the statement to appropriate federal authorities. Groups running the petition hope to publicize the statement and its signers in various newspapers around the country.

Please sign today: http://www.rcfp.org/standup//index.php

It is critical only working journalists – reporters, editors, photographers, freelancers, advertising representatives and circulation workers – sign the petition.

Next SPJ Board Meeting:
11 a.m. Jan. 28, 2005
Business Courier
101 W. Seventh St. at Race

February board meeting:
11 a.m. Feb. 25, 2005
Location to be announced

About SPJ

The Society of Professional Journalists works to improve and protect journalism. For more than 95 years, SPJ has been dedicated to encouraging a climate in which journalism can be practiced freely and fully, stimulating high standards of ethical behavior in the practice of journalism, and perpetuating a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty.

Board Meetings, fourth Friday every month (except August)

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