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Committee Action Plans | Committee Reports
The work of SPJ is largely done at the national committee level. No matter what your passion — freedom of information, legal defense, diversity, ethics, freelance, international journalism, First Amendment rights, journalism education — SPJ has an outlet for your talents, passion and energy. Click on the committee name to learn more about its work or to contact the chair to find out how you get can get involved.
Awards & Honors
This committee oversees most of the Society's awards, which are dedicated to recognizing outstanding achievement in journalism. Any changes in guidelines, judging criteria, categories or eligibility are reviewed by this committee.
Related content | Awards Committee Roster
Awards & Honors Committee Chair
Ginny Frizzi
Point Park University
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Ginny Frizzi has been a member of SPJ since she was an undergraduate at Point Park College (now University) in Pittsburgh. She was a charter member of the Point Park chapter.
Frizzi holds a B.A. and M.A. in journalism from Point Park. She also did graduate work in non-fiction writing and public and international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.
She is treasurer of the Pittsburgh Professional Chapter of SPJ and served as finance chair for the 2008 Region 4 conference hosted by the chapter in March. She was SPJ’s Region 4 Director from 1994-2000 and twice received the Regional Director of the Year Award.
Frizzi was a founder of the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and currently serves as a board member. She is a member of the Club’s journalism scholarship committee and has chaired the club’s annual Golden Quill Awards competition for more years than she can remember.
She is a board member of the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh and a former president of the club and the Pittsburgh chapter of Women In Communications, Inc., (WICI), now American Women in Communications.
In real life she is Director of Media Relations and Communications at Point Park University. Frizzi is also a freelance writer.
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Bylaws
This committee strives to ensure the Society conducts its business and operations according to the Society's bylaws. SPJ's bylaws aim to unite members and promote good fellowship among them.
SPJ Bylaws | Bylaws Committee Roster
Bylaws Committee Chair
Robert Becker
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Robert Becker has served on the Bylaws Committee since 2001 and has been the D.C.Pro Chapter's FOI chair since about 1992. Additionally, Becker serves as the D.C. Sunshine Chair, and the Mid-Atlantic Region member of the National FOI Committee. In this position, he provides advice and information on access to journalists and others in the D.C. metropolitan area. Most recently, Becker has been working with the Maryland, Delaware and D.C. Press Association to draft a new open meetings law for D.C. He’s worked with National (SPJ) to oppose a bill that would have exempted Virginia legislative committees from the state open meetings law, and he worked with the D.C. City Council Judiciary Committee on amendments to the D.C. open records law and the D.C. open meetings law. Becker has assisted students at a Montgomery County high school who, as part of their course work, aired controversial programs on the school board's cable channel. Recently, he actively opposed proposed restrictions on public access to federal court case files over the Internet. Working with the National FOI Chairman, Becker developed a program to train journalists, news managers and media outlet owners on the importance of defending public access to government information. He regularly addresses groups of foreign journalists and government officials visiting the United States on access to government information and has done training projects in Ethiopia, Morrocco, Argentina and Urugua on issues related to press freedom.
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Chapter Doctor
The chapter doctor is a front-line caretaker who helps new and struggling pro chapters. Let us be a resource to resolve outstanding chapter issues and serve as a liaison to national headquarters.
Start a Chapter | Local Connection
Chapter Doctor Commitee Chairs
Bill McCloskey
4709 Overbrook Road
Bethesda, MD 20816
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Bill McCloskey is the retired Washington, D.C.-based Director of Media Relations for AT&T, formerly BellSouth Corp.
Before joining AT&T in 1987, Bill worked for 11 years with The Associated Press in Washington.
Bill's professional career started in 1961, when, as a high school junior, he took a summer newsroom job at Metromedia's WIP Radio in Philadelphia. He remained with Metromedia in Philadelphia until he was drafted into the Army upon graduation from Villanova University in 1966.
Ironically, the Army assigned him to the information office of the 1st Signal Brigade in Vietnam where he wrote press releases about the Army's telephone system.
Following his tour of duty, he was assigned by Metromedia to set up a news department for WASH FM in Washington. From 1968 until 1975, he worked as news director, network correspondent and TV news producer and writer for Metromedia in Washington.
Bill chairs the Radio and Television News Director’s Association Foundation’s annual fund-raising dinner. He is past president of the D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and was the Society’s Region 2 director. He has been recognized three times with SPJ’s “President’s Award” for distinguished service to the Society.
Sally Lehrman
Independent Journalist
Bestwrit
Montara, Calif.
Work: 650/728-8211
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Sally Lehrman is a director at large for the SPJ National Board of Directors. Additionally, she is an award-winning reporter and writer for some of the top names in national print and broadcast media. Her byline credits include Scientific American, Nature, Health, the Washington Post, Salon.com and the DNA Files, distributed by NPR. She specializes in medical and science policy reporting, with an emphasis on genetics, race and sexuality. Distinguished honors include the 1995-96 John S. Knight Fellowship; a shared 2002 Peabody award, Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Award for excellence in health and medical programming, and Columbia/Du Pont Silver Baton (for the DNA Files); and reporting and writing awards from SPJ, Case, and other organizations.
Besides SPJ, Lehrman is active in several organizations that promote diversity in the media. Her volunteer work in diversity has been recognized by the 2003 Wells Key, a 2002 SPJ President’s Award, the 1998 Howard Dubin Outstanding Pro Member Award and an award for service to the NorCal SPJ chapter. She is author of News in a New America, a fresh take on developing an inclusive U.S. news media, and is a USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism Expert Fellow. Lehrman also serves as SPJ’s Diversity Committee chairperson.
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Diversity
On both chapter and national levels, SPJ provides an open forum for the discussion of diversity issues in journalism. This committee's purpose is to promote a broader voice in newsrooms across the country and expand the depth and quality of news reports through better sourcing. Its ongoing project is the compilation of experts — primarily women, gays and lesbians, people of color and people with disabilities — through the Society's Diversity Source Book. The Society's relevance to its member is based on inclusiveness.
Diversity Home Page | Diversity Committee Roster
Diversity Committee Chair
Pueng Vongs
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Pueng Vongs has more than 14 years experience as a journalist. She began her early career in financial journalism working for Money magazine and CBS.Marketwatch.com. She also reported from her native Thailand working for Bangkok-based Manager magazine and contributed articles to the Asian Wall Street Journal. Today she is an associate editor at Pacific News Service/New America Media in San Francisco, which produces original, youth and ethnic media content covering the nation’s growing ethnic communities. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Audubon magazine, Chicago Sun Times, Oakland Tribune, California magazine among others. She also works as an associate producer for the UpFront on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco. She has contributed radio pieces to KQEDâs Pacific Time and NPRâs the Travis Smiley Show. Among her SPJ posts Vongs serves as vice president for the Nor Cal board in 2006, was a member of the planning committee for the chapter’s multi-cultural writers conference, and was a national diversity leader fellow in 2005.
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Ethics
This committee's purpose is to encourage the use of the Society's Code of Ethics, which promotes the highest professional standards for journalists of all disciplines. Public concerns are often answered by this committee. It also acts as a spotter for reporting trends in the nation, accumulating case studies of jobs well done under trying circumstances.
Ethics Home Page | Ethics Committee Roster
Ethics Committee
Andy Schotz, chair
Hagerstown, Md.
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Andy Schotz is a reporter for The Herald-Mail, a daily newspaper in Hagerstown, Md. He has covered a variety of beats, including city hall and police and courts. He occasionally fills in as city editor. His newest assignment is covering the Maryland statehouse, starting with the 2007 session. When he joined the paper in 2000, he was the one person in the one-person Berkeley County, W.Va., bureau.
Schotz is on the board of SPJ’s Washington, D.C., Pro chapter and has helped the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association with some projects. A Long Island native, he has a bachelor’s degree from the University at Albany in upstate New York. He previously worked for eight years at The Altamont Enterprise, a weekly paper outside Albany, as a reporter and, for part of that time, an editor.
Please contact Andy only at his home e-mail address, which is where he responds to SPJ inquiries.
Fred Brown, vice chair
2862 S. Oakland Ct.
Aurora, Colo., 80014
303/829-4647
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Fred Brown is a former national president of SPJ (1997-98) and is very active on its ethics committee. He writes a column on ethics for Quill magazine and served on the committee that wrote the Society’s 1996 code of ethics.
Brown officially retired from The Denver Post in early 2002, but continues to write a Sunday editorial page column for the newspaper. He also does analysis for Denver’s NBC television station, teaches communication ethics at the University of Denver, and is a principal in Hartman & Brown, LLP, a media training and consulting firm. He has won several awards for writing and community service, including a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial writing in 1988. He is an Honor Alumnus of Colorado State University, a member of the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame, and serves on the boards of directors of Colorado Public Radio, the Colorado Freedom of Information Council and the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation.
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Finance, Tax and Budget
The finance committee is chaired by the Society's secretary-treasurer. By authority of that position, the committee reviews the annual budget and sets financial goals. Its recommendations on the budget are forwarded to the SPJ board at its spring meeting.
Kevin Z. Smith
Assistant Professor of Journalism
Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community and Technical College
301 Jaynes Hall
1201 Locust Ave.
Fairmont, WV 26554
304/367-4864
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Kevin Z. Smith is an assistant professor of journalism at Fairmont State University. He is a career journalist having worked in newsrooms as a reporter, photographer and editor for more than 20 years.
He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from West Virginia University and a master's degree in mass communications from Miami University (Ohio).
He served as an adjunct instructor at Fairmont State and West Virginia University before being named assistant professor of journalism and director of student publications at FSU in 2003. He also was a visiting instructor of journalism at Miami University from 1995-2000.
Smith has worked at various daily papers in West Virginia including publications in Fairmont where he was managing editor, Morgantown as city editor, Parkersburgas a business writer and Grafton as sports editor. He also worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Financial News in Washington, D.C.
Smith was inducted into SPJ as a West Virginia University student in 1978. He joined the ethics committee in 1988 and served as chair of the committee from 1994-96, the two years when the ethics code was rewritten. He is a contributor to two of the SPJ ethics books, "Doing Ethics in Journalism" and he has written for trade publications and scholarly journals on ethical issues. He also served as the society's Sunshine Chair, an advocate for open meetings and records laws in West Virginia, for five years. He served on the national board in 1997 as a campus adviser-at-large. He also has worked on the convention's resolution and nominations committees.
Smith is a columnist for the Times West Virginian in Fairmont, is a freelance writer for northern West Virginia's Corridor magazine and works as an Associated Press political elections reporter. He is a native of Fairmont with two sons, Ben and Nick.
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Freedom of Information Committee
This committee is the watchdog of press freedoms across the nation. It relies upon a network of volunteers in each state organized under Project Sunshine. These SPJ members are on the front lines for assaults to the First Amendment and when lawmakers attempt to restrict the public's access to documents and the government's business. The committee often is called upon to intervene in instances where the media is restricted.
FOI Home Page | FOI Committee Roster
Freedom of Information Committee Chair
David Cuillier
Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism
University of Arizona
Marshall Building, Room 323
Tucson, AZ 85721-0158
Work: 520/626-9694
Fax: 520/621-7557
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David Cuillier, a former newspaper reporter and editor, is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Arizona. He researches public attitudes toward freedom of information and is one of the SPJ newsroom trainers for acquiring government documents.
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Generation J
Generation J focuses on helping early-stage pros sharpen their skills and bone up on the importance of journalism advocacy.
Generation J Committee Roster
Generation J Chair
Michelle Maskaly
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Michelle Maskaly is an editor for a cable news network Web site in New York City. Previously, she was part of the e-media team at the Staten Island Advance, an Advance Publications owned daily newspaper in New York. Before joining the Advance in April 2005, she worked as a municipal beat reporter for two Gannett owned daily newspapers in New Jersey for two years and was a summer 2001 intern at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. A board member, and current president of the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Maskaly joined the organization as a way to keep up on the most current trends in the journalism field, network and meet other journalists as committed to the field as she is.
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Freelance
The Freelance Committee's purpose is to promote, assist, and build a communication network for freelance reporters, writers, editors, copy editors, photographers, designers and all additional contract journalists. This committee?s goal is to bring heightened awareness to freelance journalism. It acts a bridge to connect freelance journalists with editors. This committee is an advocate for freelance journalism. It also provides a professional and social outlet for freelance journalists. This committee encourages reasonable work-pay ratios, respect, and education for the growing number of freelance journalists.
Freelance Home Page | Freelance Committee Roster
Freelance Committee
SPJ's National Freelance Committee has a mission to connect freelancers to the many resources to help them become better writers and better businesspeople. If you have ideas, suggestions or additions, please contact our chair.
The Freelance Committee's purpose is to promote, assist, and build a communication network for freelance reporters, writers, editors, copy editors, photographers, designers and all additional contract journalists. This committee's goal is to bring heightened awareness to freelance journalism. It acts a bridge to connect freelance journalists with editors.
This committee is an advocate for freelance journalism. It also provides a professional and social outlet for freelance journalists. This committee encourages reasonable work-pay ratios, respect, and education for the growing number of freelance journalists.
Freelance Committee Chair
Amy Green
321/249-7775
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Amy Green is a freelance journalist for People, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and many others. She specializes in faith, ethics and social issues, and her work also has appeared in Christianity Today, Charisma and with Religion News Service. She is a former Associated Press reporter in Nashville, Tenn., and in 2006 she worked for a month in Boston as an editor on the national desk of the Monitor. She is an active member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Society of Professional Journalists. This spring she traveled to Taiwan with an SPJ delegation of working journalists to help foster a professional exchange with journalists in that country. She is a journalism graduate from the University of Florida and is an occasional speaker on the business of freelancing. She works and lives in Orlando, Fla.
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International Journalism Committee
The International Journalism Committee works to improve and protect international journalism and encourage the free practice of journalism in all countries.
International Journalism Home Page | IJC Roster
International Journalism Committee Chair
June Nicholson, chair
Associate Professor
School of Mass Communications
Virginia Commonwealth University
901 W. Main Street
Richmond, VA 23284-2034
804/827-0251
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June O. Nicholson, an associate professor in the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., has chaired national SPJ’s Journalism Education Committee since 2000. She has been a member of several other national SPJ committees over the past two decades. She is co-developer of the SPJ newsroom training module on covering diverse communities. Nicholson also is a former president of the Virginia professional chapter of SPJ.
At VCU, Nicholson teaches government, enterprise and project reporting and coverage of specialized beats such as science, health, education, urban affairs and the environment. She also teaches a course on International Media Coverage: The Middle East. Before joining the VCU faculty, she was a reporter and editor for some 15 years in North Carolina and Virginia. She is a former acting director, associate director and assistant director of the VCU School of Mass Communications. Nicholson holds a master’s degree in public affairs journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C., and a B.A. degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“I am a member of SPJ because I believe the organization plays a vital role in protecting the First Amendment, free speech and freedom of information in this country.”
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Journalism Education
This committee's purpose is to promote excellence in education programs and practical research. It acts as a clearinghouse for the Society's academic members and students. It also works with annual convention planners on mentor programs both at the college and high school level.
Tools for Students | Tools for Educators | J-Ed Committee Roster
Journalism Education Committee Chair
Ernie Wiggins
Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
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Ernest Wiggins is a tenured associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina. He's the adviser to the campus chapter of SPJ, which he revitalized out of dormancy in 2004. For his efforts, Wiggins received the David Eshelman Oustanding Campus Adviser award from SPJ in 2005.
A former reporter and editor for The State (Columbia, S.C.) and the Columbia (S.C.) Record, Wiggins joined the faculty in 1993, returning to the school from which he'd earned both his bachelor's and master's degree. Wiggins has done additional postgraduate study in social strutures and social networks.
His areas of teaching and research specialization are newsgathering and reporting trends, media ethics, media literacy, newsroom operations, and mass media and social justice.
He's presented research at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications national conferences and regional colloquia. His research has been published in "Framing Public Life: Perspective on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World."
He has been a guest columnist for The State and his work has been reprinted in Stein and Paterno's "The Newswriter's Handbook" and Kreml, et al., "College Writing: Reading, Analyzing, and Writing."
He's attended seminars in writing and new media and convergence at the Poynter Institute and American Press Institute and was selected to be one of two faculty members to attend the Medicine in the Media workshop at the National Institutes of Health in 2005.
Wiggins has been recognized for his teaching and is sought after to mentor students and direct student research.
In addition to SPJ, Wiggins is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Associaton of University Professors.
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Legal Defense Fund
This committee oversees the Society's Legal Defense Fund, a unique account that can be tapped for providing journalists with legal or direct financial assistance. Application to the fund is approved by either a small committee or the national board, depending on the level of assistance sought. The committee works throughout the year raising funds for LDF.
LDF Home Page | LDF Committee Roster
Legal Defense Fund Committee Chair
Molly McDonough
Assistant Managing Editor/Online
ABA Journal
321 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Work: (312) 988-5911
Fax: (312) 988-6014
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Molly McDonough is the Assistant Managing Editor/Online for the ABA Journal. She also has worked for American Lawyer Media and The National Law Journal as a writer and editor.
Molly previously reported for seven years at daily publications, including the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin; Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune; Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal; and the Florence (S.C.) Morning News, where she covered courts, politics and the occasional NASCAR race in Darlington.
Molly is a past president of the Chicago Headline Club. She also was the founding president of the Chicago Headline Club Foundation, which raises money for journalism scholarship. She serves on the advisory board for Columbia College Chicago's journalism department.
Molly is a graduate of Valparaiso University, where she majored in psychology and communications. She lives in Oak Park, Ill., with her husband and two children.
Molly, a former at-large director on SPJ's national board, joined SPJ after an employer would not help her fight a subpoena. "I learned that SPJ's Legal Defense Fund is a valuable service to journalists," she said. "I have been a supporter of the LDF since and have worked to strengthen an organization that serves our nation's democracy by supporting a free, open and ethical press."
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Membership
This committee follows membership trends in the Society and recommends membership recruitment drives to the national board and executive director. It is called upon to review chapter requirements, dues, organizational structure and other quality-of-life issues affecting the membership.
Why Join? | Member Resources
Membership Committee
John C. Ensslin
Reporter
Rocky Mountain News
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John C. Ensslin is a general assignment reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, where he has worked since August 1984. A native of Jersey City N.J., he previously worked at the Middletown Times Herald Record in New York and the now-defunct Hudson Dispatch in Union City, N.J. He is a former president of the Denver Press Club and currently serves as the club's program director.
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Nominations
The nominations committee has a single goal: to recruit the best and brightest of SPJ members to run for national offices. The immediate past president of the Society automatically serves in this role.
Nominations Committee Chair
Christine Tatum
Assistant Features Editor/Online Features Editor
The Denver Post
101 W. Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80202
303/954-1503
Cell: 303/881-8702
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Christine Tatum is an assistant features editor for The Denver Post. She produces multimedia for the Post's various features sections, helps to develop new Web entities for the Post and writes across sections of the newspaper. She also has worked as an assistant business editor, producing the newspaper's Monday business section and its daily, online business coverage.
Before arriving at The Post in 2003, Tatum worked for the Chicago Tribune, where she also served as a media hybrid, covering technology as a reporter for the newspaper, a producer for the newspaper's online tech section and a commentator about technology for Tribune-owned CLTV.
Tatum's other career stops include Tribune Media Services; the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill.; and the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism and political science.
Tatum enjoys practicing her conversational Spanish, reading anything by David Sedaris and tooling around on her Mac laptop (she prays for the day all newsrooms go Mac, by the way).She lives in Denver with her husband, Dr. Christian Thurstone; their daughter, Tatum Elizabeth; and their son, Christian Asa.
Tatum is a member of SPJ because she admires the amazing amount of journalism advocacy work the organization performs each year and because she believes all journalists should do more to improve and protect journalism than what it takes for them to collect their paychecks.
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Professional Development
The Professional Development Committee ensures a broad range of professional development programs offered by the Society.
Training Home Page | Committee Roster
Professional Development Committee Chair
Deb Halpern Wenger
Associate Professor
VCU School of Mass Communications
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Deb Halpern Wenger, a 17-year broadcast news veteran, is associate professor for media convergence and new media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to her academic appointment, Deb served as assistant news director at WFLA-TV in Tampa, Fla. She started her career as a reporter/anchor at KXJB in Fargo, N.D., moved on to producing at WBBH in Ft. Myers, Fla. and WMUR in Manchester, N.H. then became executive producer at WSOC in Charlotte, N.C. Wenger conducts multimedia training in newsrooms around the country and is coauthor of the broadcast and online journalism curricula for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Newsroom Training Program. She has been invited to work as visiting faculty for The Poynter Institute’s “Producing Producers” seminar and has been a part of the Committee of Concerned Journalists Traveling Curriculum through the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Wenger is co-author of a journalism textbook, “Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World.”
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Project Watchdog
Project Watchdog is designed to inform the public about how members of the media do their jobs. Specifically, its goal is to educate our readers and viewers about the importance of a free and ethical press. Each year at the Society's annual convention, the local community is invited to participate in a Project Watchdog program.
Project Watchdog Home Page | Committee Roster
Project Watchdog Committee
Stephenie Overman
Freelance writer
3659 Vacation Lane
Arlington, VA 22207
703/465-8605
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Bio (click to expand)
Stephenie Overman is a Washington, D.C.-area freelance writer who specializes in workplace and health care issues. She is past president of the Washington pro chapter (1995-1996) and the New Jersey chapter (2002-2004); she was secretary of the Los Angeles chapter (1997-1998). She was COO of the 2004 national SPJ convention in New York and co-chair of the 1996 Washington convention. She received a Howard S. Dubin Outstanding Pro Chapter Member Award for 2002-2003.
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Public Outreach
SPJ's Public Outreach Committee specializes in the marketing and promotion of the Society's work. This committee works largely in an advisory role and is tasked with aiding the development of communications for some of the Society's largest, and also fledgling, projects.
Committee Roster
Public Outreach Committee
Bill Perry, chair
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Bill Perry has more than 16 years of experience in public relations, government affairs, marketing communications and special events. His clients have ranged from high-tech start-up firms to global healthcare companies to local and state government agencies. Over the years, he’s won praise from journalists at The New York Times, The Washington Post and Fortune for not only his nose for news but also his responsiveness and candor.
Currently, Perry is director of global public relations for SumTotal Systems, a California-based software firm. He leads analyst and media relations across the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. Prior to SumTotal Systems, Perry directed public relations for Chicago-based Participate.com, a manager of online communities for Fortune 500 firms. His efforts, in part, made Participate one of Chicago’s most-watched technology start-ups. By offering an even-handed look at the ups and downs of building an internet business, Perry earned the trust of local and national media. This translated into feature stories for Participate.com with media including CNNfn, Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Perry’s background also includes roles with both public relations and public affairs firms. His agency experience included advance work for President Clinton, nationwide store openings for Target and issues management on behalf of a number of politicians and corporations. Over the years, he has written articles about technology for numerous trade magazines, The Chicago Tribune and new media. He has spoken on the topic of public relations. And he has worked as a freelance editorial cartoonist.
Perry’s honors include awards from the New York Press Association, Ragan Communications and the Chicago Financial Advertisers. He is an associate of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Perry graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University.
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Resolutions
The Resolutions Committee meets annually at the Society's National Convention. The group is charged with presenting timely issues for debate before the Society's voting delegates. Its members serve to keep order at business meetings of the Society and to facilitate thoughtful debate. Drafts of resolutions can be submitted by any member of the Society either prior to, or during, convention.
Resolutions Committee
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Our Mission
The Society of Professional Journalists is dedicated to the perpetuation of
a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty.
To ensure that the concept of self-government outlined by the U.S. Constitution
remains a reality into future centuries, the American people must be well informed
in order to make decisions regarding their lives, and their local and national
communities.
It is the role of journalists to provide this information in an accurate, comprehensive,
timely and understandable manner.
It is the mission of the Society of Professional Journalists:
— To promote this flow of information.
— To maintain constant vigilance in protection of the First Amendment guarantees
of freedom of speech and of the press.
— To stimulate high standards and ethical behavior in the practice of journalism.
— To foster excellence among journalists.
— To inspire successive generations of talented individuals to become dedicated
journalists.
— To encourage diversity in journalism.
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