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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.
Watchdog Manual
Do you want to know more about the better watchdog program? Are you looking to get your chapter and or community involved? The better watchdog manual is the perfect source to help you get started. Click here to download the manual (PDF format).
Related links/content
— Coaltion of Journalists for Open Government: cjog.org
— SPJ in Motion Video: News Councils as a Tool for Building Public Trust
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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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Don Meyers
Editorial page editor, Daily Herald
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Bio (click to expand)
Donald W. Meyers has been the editorial page editor of the Daily Herald in Provo, Utah since 1998. Before that, he was a reporter at the Herald for five years and worked at daily and weekly newspapers in New Jersey. He majored in Journalism at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey and Brigham Young University. He is a past-president of the Utah Headliners Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists.
Nerissa Young
Assistant professor, Shepherd University
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Bio (click to expand)
Nerissa Young is a recovering print journalist employed as assistant professor of print journalism at the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. Before that, she taught three years in the Department of Mass Communications at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and in the journalism school at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Young has nearly 20 years of media experience that includes radio, newspapers, freelance and journalism education. A native West Virginian, she received her bachelor’s degree in secondary education from Concord College and her master’s degree in journalism from Marshall University. She has been a member of SPJ’s national ethics committee since 1995 and spent seven years as chairwoman of SPJ’s national Project Watchdog committee. Young writes a weekly column, “The Back Porch,” about whatever tickles her momentary fancy for her former employer, The (Beckley, W.Va.) Register-Herald. At Marshall, she teaches news writing and reporting and advises the campus newspaper, The Parthenon.
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