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SPJ's Campus Media Statement
“Student media are designated public forums, and free from censorship and advance approval of content. Because content and funding are unrelated, and because the role of adviser does not include advance review of content, student media are free to develop editorial policies and news coverage with the understanding that students and student organizations speak only for themselves. Administrators, faculty, staff or other agents shall not consider the student media’s content when making decisions regarding the media’s funding or faculty adviser.”
Show the Love: SPJ’s Campus Media Statement Program
The Society of Professional Journalists is asking college administrators to show their love for a free student press by taking a vow that includes these three magic words: “designated public forum.” Continue Reading
Student Research Guidelines: How SPJ can help students
SPJ is more than happy to help student journalists. We welcome research questions as students pursue studies inside and outside the classroom. We offer a variety of resources and professional experts that are available, but try as we may, our services are not available 24/7/365 - specifically those of our hard-working volunteer experts and committee members. While we recognize those limitations, we will do all we can to assist students. In order to gain that assistance, we ask that students please follow these three guidelines.
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Vice President, Campus Chapter Affairs
Neil Alan Ralston
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd #11070
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1070
(270) 745-5841
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Neil Ralston serves as a campus adviser at large for SPJ’s national board of directors. He is an assistant professor of journalism at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky. Before joining the faculty at Western Kentucky, Ralston was an associate professor of journalism at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches (NAK-uh-tish), La., where he taught and advised the student SPJ chapter since 1999. Other teaching appointments include Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. Ralston began a career in journalism in 1978 and has worked as an editor, reporter and photographer at weekly and daily newspapers in Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas. His most recent full-time reporting job was in 1985-89 when he worked for the San Antonio (Texas) Light where he covered city hall, the police, federal law enforcement agencies and the federal courthouse.
Ralston has bachelor's degrees in communication and industrial technology from Northeast Missouri State University and a master's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University where he was a fellow in the Kiplinger Program of Public Affairs Reporting. He earned a doctorate from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2002. Additionally, Ralston was named SPJ's campus chapter adviser of the year for the 1998-99 school year. He has been a member of the SPJ board since 2003.
Campus Advisers At-Large
Sue Kopen Katcef
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-7526
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Sue Kopen Katcef serves as SPJ’s nation campus adviser at-large. She is an award winning veteran broadcast journalist who is now a member of the faculty of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland where she teaches broadcast news writing and production. In addition, she helps with the daily TV news show, “Maryland Newsline,” produced by the college’s advanced broadcast news reporting class for UMTV, the campus’ cable TV channel operated by the Merrill College of Journalism. “Maryland Newsline” airs on the cable channels in two of the state’s largest counties (Montgomery and Prince George’s) as well as Baltimore City.
Before joining UMD, Kopen Katcef was a reporter and anchor for WBAL Radio news in Baltimore, where she continues to freelance for the station. She also worked as a reporter in television with stops at Baltimore’s WJZ and Maryland Public Television.
An active member of SPJ since 1973, Kopen Katcef is currently the adviser to the University of Maryland student chapter, corresponding secretary for the DC SPJ Pro Chapter and scholarship chair for the Maryland Pro Chapter. She resides in Annapolis, Md. with her husband and son.
George Daniels
The University of Alabama
Associate Professor
P.O. Box 870172
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
(205) 348-8618
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Bio (click to expand)
George L. Daniels is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences. He joined the UA faculty in 2003 after completing his master's and Ph.D. degrees at The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
As a graduate student, Daniels participated in the University of Georgia’s SPJ Campus Chapter. But, his first experience with SPJ came when he received a scholarship from the Washington DC Chapter of what was then Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) in the early 1990s. In 2006, Daniels was a 2006 SPJ Diversity Leadership Fellow and 2007 Scripps Institute Fellow.
In addition to serving as co-adviser for the Univesity of Alabama SPJ Chapter, Daniels previously served as chair of the SPJ Journalism Education Commitee.
Certified in 2009 by the Journalism Education Association as a "Master Journalism Educator," Daniels teaches classes in media management and cross-media reporting and writing. Before moving into the academic arena, Daniels worked as a news producer at WTVR-TV in Richmond, Va., WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio and WXIA-TV in Atlanta. He is a cum laude graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC.
Student Reps
Tara Puckey
IUPUI
8214 S. Firefly Drive
Pendleton, IN 46064
765-381-0927
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Andrew Seaman
Wilkes University
Capin Hall
84 W. South St.
Wilkes-Barre, PA
570-906-0071
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