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2024 Mark of Excellence Awards: Nominations open

The Mark of Excellence Awards honor the best in collegiate journalism. Get all the details and enter your work here.

The Liberty Awards: 2024 Winners Announced

Print is not dead. Neither is democracy. We want to reward college newspapers that print election editions ahead of the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Print still has a place on college campuses, and it’s especially effective for previewing big events. And what’s bigger than a presidential election?

The PRESS Act: What it is, and why it’s important to get it passed

In May 2024, SPJ joined more than 120 journalism organizations, First Amendment advocacy groups, attorneys and law professors in a letter urging leaders of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to prioritize action on long-stalled legislation creating a federal shield law to protect journalist-source confidentiality. Learn more about the bill, and how you can help, here.

Visit SPJ’s brand-new Career Center

Connecting talent with great opportunities. Discover jobs, connect with talented journalists, and enhance your job seeking journey with tools and coaching tailored to give you an edge. It's all in one place, and it's a click away.

SPJ NEWS

Announcing the 2024 recipients of The Liberty Awards

More SPJ News:
- SPJ partners with Aquiline Coaching to offer self-care and wellness resources to members
- SPJ ethics leaders decry editorial interference at LA Times and Washington Post amid debate over presidential endorsements

Mini-Grants for SPJ Freelancers

The SPJ Freelance Fund’s mini-grants program supports SPJ members seeking to engage in professional activities that advance their careers as independent journalists.

Grants, typically ranging up to $500, will be awarded to selected SPJ members seeking to improve their skills and ability to succeed as freelancers. Learn more here.

Webinar Replays

– What the Heck is Coaching and Why Do Journalists Need It?
– Retirement Planning for Freelance Journalists
– The Promise and Perils of AI in Election Coverage
– SPJ Freelance Community Webinar: Putting Your Print Foot into the Podcasting World
– SPJ Freelance Community webinar: AI for Journalists with expert and digital guru Sree Sreenivasan

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Upcoming events and deadlines

- 11/20/24: SEO 101: What Every Journalist and Publisher Should Know
- 11/24/24: SPJ + Aquiline Universal Newsroom Biweekly Chat
- 12/01/24: Entries Open: New America Award
- 12/03/24: SPJ Georgia: A Winter Wonderland
- 12/05/24: Entry deadline for the Lukas Prize Project

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Stillwater Awards, presented by SPJ and the Prison Journalism Project

The Stillwater Awards recognize excellence in prison journalism — one of the toughest places to practice the craft. The inaugural awards were launched in 2024 and have just concluded. See the winners here.

The ReNews Project: Revive, Recruit, Rejoice, Repeat.

The ReNews Project is a collaboration between press organizations and media companies. Together, we’re restarting dormant student newspapers on HBCU and HSI campuses — by removing every barrier that stands between students and their desire to do good journalism.

We’re in this together.

To those affected by layoffs and buyouts: SPJ supports you and wants to help.

– How we can help
– Taking care of yourself
– Helping each other
– Additional resources

Quill

Bookshelf: TV news wardrobe, hair and voice norms explored in �Performing the News�

More from Quill:
- 10 with Thomas Manglo�a II
- Back on the Beat: The Journey Back to Journalism
- When the newsroom becomes newsworthy

Ukraine Journalists Fund

Journalists are the specific targets of the Russian forces invading Ukraine. Twenty-two journalists have been kidnapped; most are still being held. This is not limited to Ukrainians alone. U.S. journalists covering the war are the targets of Russian hackers, including those based in the United States.

That is why the SPJ Foundation is creating the Ukraine Journalists Fund, a tax-exempt fund with 100% of the money going to helping local Ukrainian journalists continue to do their jobs. Learn more here.

SPJ’s Code of Ethics

SPJ declares these four principles as the foundation of ethical journalism and encourages their use in its practice by all people in all media.

The SPJ Race & Gender Hotline: Fast answers for confused journalists

SPJ has partnered with experienced Black and LGBT journalists and educators, including the Trans Journalists Association. They’ll offer concrete advice for your specific situation.

Even if you choose not to follow that advice, you’ll hang up with an enlightened grasp of the issues currently roiling the news media. And whatever happens on your call, it’s all off the record.

SPJ Ethics Central

Reporting what’s happening, discussing what matters and exploring what’s next.

• Ethics and Diversity in the News
• In depth: SPJ’s Code of Ethics

Updates:
- Updating reporting on a hit-and-run as more information is released
- Minimizing harm for families of homicide victims
- False reporting on a child influencers death
- Answering audience questions with �transparency portal�
- Using official documents during an investigation

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