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Be more than a member.
Be a leader.
Voting chapter delegates will elect members of the national board of directors during the Excellence in Journalism 2012 conference, Sept. 20-22 in Fort Lauderdale.
Board members help define the Society. As an organization that values diversity, SPJ is looking for candidates who represent and encompass differing backgrounds based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, appearance, geography, media discipline and professional status. SPJ is branded as the nation’s most broad-based journalism association, which is a statement to the professional and personal attributes of our membership.
Positions up for election this year include:
President-elect (elected every year)
Secretary-Treasurer (elected every year)
At-Large Director (two-year position)
Campus Adviser At-Large (two-year position)
Student Representative (two positions, elected every year)
Directors for Regions 1, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 (two-year position)
Special Qualifications
SPJs bylaws require President and President-elect candidates to have served as a member of the board of directors, or the board of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, or been the chair of a national committee or a professional chapter president who also has been or is a member of a national committee.
How to Run
Interested candidates should indicate their intention to run by emailing Nominations Committee Chairman Hagit Limor at hlimor@wcpo.com and Executive Director Joe Skeel at jskeel@spj.org. There is no formal deadline to declare candidacy, but candidates wanting to run a profile in Quill ahead of the convention must make an end-of-June copy deadline.
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