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 January 28, 2005 A periodic online newsletter

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SPJ Contest time again: Prepare your entries!

 

It’s contest time again! Materials are being prepared for the local SPJ contest and will be in the mail next week (Jan. 31-Feb. 4) for a Fri. March 4, 2005 entry deadline.

 

To download a brochure now, visit the Cincy SPJ Web site: www.cincyspj.org/contest.htm

 

For more information, e-mail localcontest@cincyspj.org or call contest chairperson Mike Rutledge, (859) 578-5586.

 

Deadline for the Ohio SPJ contest is Monday, Jan. 31. Entering the Ohio contest supports the local chapters. For more information or to download an entry form, please visit the Ohio SPJ Web page: www.ohiospjawards.org


2004 Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts, Jr. among 3 Pulitzer winners to meet Tri-State students
Local pros invited to SPJ-sponsored brunch to meet winners

 

The Tri-State Student Journalists Association, a group of Greater Cincinnati area high school journalists interested in media careers, has planned a journalism conference that will put participants face-to-face with 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, Leonard Pitts, Jr. as well as Pulitzer Prize winner, Tim Gallagher and J. Bruce Bauman.

Local working journalists are invited to a special pre-conference brunch, sponsored by SPJ. Come meet our Pulitzer Prize-winning colleagues, and talk with local colleagues. In exchange for the brunch, SPJ and TSJA is asking attendees to stay and greet students after the brunch. Feel free to stay for the entire program, listen to the speakers and pitch in to help make the conference run smoothly. Brunch being catered by Jimmy Gherardi and his crew from The Restaurant at Harper’s Point.

SPJ Brunch Information

WHEN:

10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 26, 2005

WHERE:

Mariemont High School, 3812 Pocahontas Ave.

COST:

Free for journalists and teachers. Reservation required. Please register at www.cincyspj.org/brunch.htm by Feb. 23, 2005.

BRUNCH INFO:

www.cincyspj.org/brunch.htm

CONFERENCE INFO:

www.tristatestudentjouranlists.com or tsj@cincinnati.com

 

Additional conference information

Several local professional journalists have agreed to present at the conference. 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. SPJ is a co-sponsor of the event.

Organizers are looking professional journalists 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.

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


New York Post “Page Six” reporter 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 the 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, Cash Bar

INFO:

programs@cincyspj.org

 


February SPJ social to return to old journalist hangout

 

The Cricket Lounge, inside the Cincinnatian Hotel, 6th & Vine streets, will be the setting for the second monthly SPJ social gathering 6:30-9 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 24, 2005.

 

Before the Enquirer moved to Elm Street, local media were often found gathered around the hotel bar sharing the latest news. Join us for a low-key evening with free hors d’oeuvre and a cash bar and get to know your local colleagues.

 

WHEN:

6:30-9 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 24, 2005

WHERE:

The Cricket Lounge, 601 Vine St. (6th & Vine streets, inside Cincinnatian Hotel)

COST:

Free, Cash Bar

INFO:

programs@cincyspj.org

 


SPJ/Bloomberg Training offered near Columbus

 

The Central Ohio SPJ chapter is offering a world-class training experience for business writers and all journalists who want to write better and more concise.

 

Just the facts:

ê      Date: Feb. 12.

ê      Time: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

ê      Location: Deer Creek State Park in Mt. Sterling, off interstate 71 south of Columbus.

ê      Cost: $40 for SPJ members, $65 for non-members.

ê      Presenters: Chris Thompson of Bloomberg, covers heavy industry and aerospace defense contractors, formerly of Reuters in New York and the Associated Press in Philadelphia, having covered the tobacco industry and commodities markets.

ê      Galen Meyer of Bloomberg, formerly a finance editor for the Tampa Tribune, and a team head in industries including retailing, insurance, consumer goods, energy and transportation.

ê      Topics: (10 a.m.-noon) Precision in Writing: “Learn how to eliminate loaded words and misleading modifiers.” (1-3 p.m.) Knowing the Numbers, “glean the stories that matter from numerical facts.”

ê      Includes: Tasty box lunch.

 

For an informational flyer, visit http://www.cincyspj.org/Downloads/Bloomberg.pdf

 


Salesian Guild honors WCPO’s Michael Flannery

Palm Beach Atlantic University journalism prof keynote

 

The Salesian Guild offers Catholic communicators in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky a spiritual connection to each other and their Creator through fellowship, shared faith and dialogue across this community. The event is open to everyone, however.

 

WCPO’s Michael Flannery will be honored as the Guild’s “Distinguished Communicator of the Year”. Michael Flannery is the creator and reporter of WCPO-TV’s feature segment “9 on Your Kid’s Side.” Through the power of television, his touching features spark viewers’ generosity to help kids in need.

 

Keynote speaker Terry Mattingly teaches at Palm Beach Atlantic University and is senior fellow for journalism at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. His “On Religion” column is syndicated each week by Scripps Howard’s Washington, D.C., bureau to about 350 North American newspapers.

 

WHEN:

6:30-9 p.m., Mon., Jan. 31, 2005

WHERE:

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, downtown

COST:

$35 per ticket

INFO:

www.catholiccincinnnati.org/salesian

 

To download a flier about the program, visit: http://www.cincyspj.org/Downloads/Salesian.pdf
For more information about the program, please visit this Web site:
www.catholiccincinnnati.org/salesian

 


 

Next SPJ Board Meeting:
11 a.m. Feb. 25, 2005
Location to be announced

 

March board meeting:
11 a.m. Mar. 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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