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SPJ + Google News Initiative: Teaching Tools for Universities

Since 2016, SPJ has worked alongside the Google News Initiative to offer in-person Google tools training in newsrooms and classrooms around the country. Now, that effort has expanded to provide educators instructional materials, based on those tools, that they can download and incorporate immediately into their classrooms.

Replays and webinars: SPJ/Google News Initiative election tools training

– Elections Roadshow: Verification, fact checking and ethics with Frank Bi and J. Alex Tarquinio
– Elections Roadshow: Reporting on polling with Kyley McGeeney
– Elections Roadshow: Google tools for data journalism with Frank Bi
– Webinar: Google Trends and Elections

The Journalist's Toolbox

This free site from the Society of Professional Journalists contains thousands of links helpful for reporters, editors, educators or anyone else doing research.

This free site from the Society of Professional Journalists contains thousands of links helpful for reporters, editors, educators or anyone else doing research. Edited by former Los Angeles Times reporter and Arizona State University Professor of Practice Mike Reilley, the site is organized by beats and industry topics such as Public Records, Crime, Legal Issues, Science, Environment, Journalism Jobs, Sports and more. The Toolbox is updated twice weekly and several times a day during prominent global breaking news events.

#Press4Education

SPJ and Journalism Education Association are looking to match journalists and K-12 teachers in a nationwide effort to bring more journalism education to schools. The project, #Press4Education, provides lesson plans, presentations and other resources to journalists who want to volunteer to share their knowledge. Get the details — and get involved — here.

FOI step-by-step guides

If you're unfamiliar with FOIA laws or just need some guidance, we can help.

– FOI for students
– FOI for pros

Additional guides:
– Reporter’s Guide to FERPA: Family Education Rights and Privacy Act
– Open Doors: Accessing Government Records
– Campus Access Center

SPJ + Google News Initiative: Tools Training for Journalists

SPJ and the Google News Initiative teamed up in 2015 to provide training and outreach to journalists around the U.S. looking to apply Google tools in their newsgathering, reporting and storytelling. Select SPJ members have been trained by the Google News Lab to bring this training to your doorstep. The training can take place in your newsroom or organization. Get all the details here.

SPJ Training Program in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project

SPJ and the Facebook Journalism Project are committed to creating opportunities for journalists everywhere to learn about the ways Facebook tools can help create and share incredible works of journalism, as well as engaging the public in the stories about their communities.

Journalism Ethics: A Casebook of Professional Conduct for News Media

Closely organized around the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics — the news industry's widely accepted "gold standard" of journalism principles — this updated edition uses real-life case studies to demonstrate how journalism students and professionals can identify and reason through ethical dilemmas.

Muslimedia: Free speech, free thinking, free food

Coming soon to a mosque near you: Muslimedia.

SPJ will visit your town and co-host a blunt debate about the way journalists cover Muslims at home and abroad. And we’ll do it in a mosque with a free halal lunch. Get more details and updates here.

Upcoming events and programs

– 1/18/19: Deadline for Submissions: EIJ19 Call for Programs and Ideas
– 3/08/19: SPJ Region 4 Conference: Cleveland
– 3/09/19: SPJ Region 3 Conference: Savannah, Ga.
– 3/22/19: SPJ Region 8 Conference: Stephenville, Texas
– 3/29/19: SPJ Region 12 Conference: Nashville
– 3/30/19: SPJ Region 11 Conference: Las Vegas
– 4/05/19: SPJ Region 7 Conference: Warrensburg, Mo.
– 4/05/19: SPJ Region 10 Conference: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
– 4/05/19: SPJ Region 9 Conference: Albuquerque, N.M.
– 4/05/19: SPJ Region 1 Conference: Boston
– 4/05/19: SPJ Region 2 Conference: Ocean City, Md.
– 4/05/19: SPJ Region 5 Conference: Louisville
– 4/12/19: SPJ Region 6 Conference: Bloomington, Minn.
– 4/22/19: Application Deadline: Terry Harper Memorial Scholarship


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