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Free Event: Covering and Protecting Your Elections

During election season, misleading news reports can sway opinions. The SPJ Training Program, in association with the Google News Initiative, is offering FREE training in 15 cities on a wide range of Google tools and workflows that can help you engage your audience, research and report information around the elections, and use data visualizations in powerful new ways.

Get more details, including how to register for an event near you, right here.

Free Webinar on Demand

YouTube for Local News (Society of Professional Journalists + Google News Initiative)

As more news organizations prioritize video storytelling, it only makes sense that this huge video consumption platform is part of the strategy. Learn how to optimize the videos you create for your YouTube channels in order to grow audiences and revenue for your newsroom.

More training:
– SPJ-Google News Initiative: Tools Training for Journalists
– More webinars on demand

Excellence in Journalism 2018: Join us for the journalism conference of the year!

Join us this September in Baltimore for the journalism conference that could change your career.

– EIJ18 website: Schedule, workshops, breakouts, special events and more
– Plan your trip

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.

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.

#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.

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.

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

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

– 9/25/18: Free Event: SPJ + Google News Initiative: Covering and Protecting Your Elections (Philadelphia)
– 9/27/18: Excellence in Journalism 2018
– 10/02/18: Free Event: SPJ + Google News Initiative: Covering and Protecting Your Elections (Columbus/Dublin, Ohio)
– 10/02/18: Free Event: SPJ + Google News Initiative: Covering and Protecting Your Elections (Milwaukee, Wisc.)
– 10/04/18: Free Event: SPJ + Google News Initiative: Covering and Protecting Your Elections (Madison, Wisc.)
– 10/04/18: Free Event: SPJ + Google News Initiative: Covering and Protecting Your Elections (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
– 10/11/18: Free Event: SPJ + Google News Initiative: Covering and Protecting Your Elections (Phoenix)
– 10/19/18: Free Event: SPJ + Google News Initiative: Covering and Protecting Your Elections (Morgantown, W.Va.)
– 4/22/19: SPJ Ethics Week


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