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IMPORTANT: New Annual Electronic Filing Requirement for SPJ Chapters
Dear SPJ Leader: Many of you will be receiving or have already received a notice from the IRS entitled: 2008 Annual Electronic Notice Filing Requirement. This memo will explain your obligations under this new act. Follow this link to read more.
 Congratulations! In addition to working a hectic schedule and balancing a life away from the job, you've taken on the added responsibility of helping to define the direction of SPJ. We couldn’t do the work without you. In an effort to make your leadership a bit easier, we’ve compiled a large reservoir of tools to help you lead.
Learn how to access chapter membership reports to maximize involvement and grow membership. Browse the resources developed for the Ted Scripps Leadership Institute held every June in Indianapolis for information on everything, including chapter leadership, fundraising, programming, recruitment/retention and promotions.
The SPJ Garden Center:
Where chapters grow. Check out the SPJ's official membership blog. Latest entries:
• Why members leave SPJ
• Brave New Members
• Garden Strategies, Part Two
The Leading Edge:
SPJ Leading Edge is a monthly newsletter designed to provide chapter leaders and officers with the tools and information to help lead a chapter, grow and retain membership and improve and protect journalism in your communities.
Leadership Training:
For SPJ student and professional chapters to be successful, they must do the right thing in the right way. The Ted Scripps Leadership Institute helps participants learn how to do just that by offering a mix of sessions focused on interpersonal and organizational leadership skills, as well as sound chapter management practices. Read all about the 2007 program, and apply today to participate.
Chapter Web Sites:
SPJ provides free Web hosting for chapters. If your chapter would like to launch a Web site, click here.
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Member Maintenance:
Need help staying in touch with members after they join your chapter? Want to hear what other chapters are doing to keep members involved? This collection of resources, tips and templates can help.
How to Start a Chapter:
SPJ's chapters are the backbone of the Society. If you're interested in establishing or expanding an SPJ chapter, these guidelines will help get you started on either the professional or campus levels.
Annual Report Forms:
Campus and Professional annual report forms are available for download. Available in both PDF and Microsoft Word (.doc) formats.
Chapter Grants:
SPJ invests in local chapter programs throughout the year, and your chapter could benefit if it qualifies for a chapter grant. Follow this link for a closer look at what grants are available, as well as instructions detailing how your chapter can apply. You also can see what other chapters are doing with the grants they've received. The deadline for Chapter Grant proposals is September 28, so apply today!
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About the 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.
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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Bio (click to expand)
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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