Trips, Tix, Documentaries Top LDF Auction Wish List

I'm starting to dream up a wish list of items to auction off at this year's LDF fundraiser...the silent and live auctions during the National Convention in Atlanta this coming September.

Trips, tickets, travel destinations, hotel stays, original news photography and original editorial cartoons always do very well.

But way at the top of my list is a DVD, when it's released, of the new documentary Citizen McCaw. The premier in March sold out all 2,000 seats! Wow. Clearly there's still quite a bit of interest in the Santa Barbara newspaper scandal.

The producers have added more screenings and I'm waiting patiently to get a chance to either see the documentary in a theater or buy my own copy. Either way, I'd like to snag a copy and any accompanying swag...signatures...for an LDF auction package. So let me know if you can get your hands on a copy to donate.

The LA Times has this story on Citizen McCaw.

In 2006, SPJ honored several former Santa Barbara News Press reporters and editors with an Ethics in Journalism Award. The honorees were recognized with a standing ovation at the National Convention in Chicago that year.