Tickets and info via Eventbrite page for the Society of Professional Journalists (Western Washington Chapter) Continuing Education Series Bring your laptop and four media professionals will show you how to get the information you need through the web. A hands-on session that takes you beyond simple searches. Scheduled presenters include Kellie Cheadle, KING-TV; Kathy Gill, University of [...]

Tickets and info via Eventbrite page for the Society of Professional Journalists (Western Washington Chapter) Continuing Education Series

From researching, reporting and interviewing to writing, tech know-how and critical thinking skills, journalists make great employees in just about any communications job. And in this shifting ecomony many of us are moving in that direction. So how do you [...]

Tickets and info via Eventbrite page for the Society of Professional Journalists (Western Washington Chapter) Continuing Education Series

Search Engine Optimization: What it is, who does it well (and not so well) and how to make it work for you. Whether you’re a blogger, freelancer, journalism professor or newsroom reporter, everyone has to know about keywords, metadata and [...]

Tickets and info via Eventbrite page for the Society of Professional Journalists (Western Washington Chapter) Continuing Education Series

Want to take great pictures but don’t have a bulky, expensive SLR camera? Learn how to take impactful news photos with your mobile phone from award-winning Seattlepi.com photographer (and phonographer) Josh Trujillo.

Tickets and info via Eventbrite page for the Society of Professional Journalists (Western Washington Chapter) Continuing Education Series

Join Tracy Record of the West Seattle Blog , Evonne Benedict of KING 5 Seattle and Amy Duncan of My Green Lake and MSNBC’s Breaking News as they discuss what it takes for journalists to build, grow and sustain great news communities in the kick-off [...]

(tickets event is now free. Info via Eventbrite page )

It’s back. Join your friends and colleagues as we roll out the red carpet for Seattle’s biggest journalist party of the year: The Holiday Scoop 2011. Our 2nd annual all-media holiday party will bring together television, radio, online and print journalists. All Puget Sound-based newsroom staffers and former staffers invited. [...]

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Join hundreds of movers-and-shakers in the tech community, as we take a moment to celebrate “geeks who give back.”  We’ll toast the men and women of the 2012 GeekWire calendar, and  Newsmakers of the Year, but that’s not all.  Enjoy calendar-themed activities, spirited contests, techie give-aways and the geekiest of chic [...]

via ONA-SPJ group on Meetup.com

We’re excited to have been able to reschedule two-time Pulitzer winner David Horsey, who will join us at the next ONA-SPJ Seattle Meetup Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. at Jillian’s, where he’ll talk about transforming his art and journalism from print to digital. He’ll discuss how his craft of cartooning has [...]

by John Bowen and Kathy Schrier from the Washington Journalism Education Association to the Student Press Rights Commission blog

Principals will not have a chance to prior review Seattle School District journalism students because the school board recently withdrew its proposed and controversial policy change. “As a former journalism teacher, it is important for me — as I [...]

From the website at http://hackingseattlenews.com

Awarding $10,000 to a team who has a mere 48 hours to produce a version of the future of news will not be easy. So we asked some really smart people to help us out. Thankfully, we have a great lineup of judges to help us decide which project is the most [...]

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 7:00 PM From the #NewsNext ONA SPJ(Online News Association & Society of Professional Journalists) collaboration. More info on Meetup.com

This is our fifth in a series of the #Newsnext meetups, where we’re talking to interesting locals working in the digital space. If you’re interested in gathering with writers, editors, photographers, producers, developers, designers, engineers and [...]

Farewell article via Sally Deneen -PostGlobe Co-founder and Curator

We started as a nonprofit news site created by laid-off staffers of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer after the 146-year-old paper printed its last edition on what for others was a festive St. Patrick’s Day in 2009. More than 100 journalists lost their jobs as the paper scaled down its [...]

via ONA / SPJ Meetup.com page

Hello all, Heading over the Cascades? Trapped in your car during #snOMG? Figuring out a way to get around summer road closures? WSDOT aims to help you navigate through all of it with innovative and responsive use of social media. Jeremy Bertrand, web manager and media strategist of Washington State Department [...]

More info and RSVP at Eventbright

Banyan Branch & Seattle Interactive Conference are hosting the Seattle 2011 Social Media Day ! Join us at HG Lodge on Capitol Hill (722 E. Pike St., Seattle 98122) on Thursday, June 30th from 5:30 – 7:30p.m. for drinks, music from DJ Marty Mar , prizes & lots of networking with Seattle’s vibrant social media community. Skillet will have their food truck [...]

from http://barcampseattle2011.eventbrite.com/

BarCamp Seattle is a one of a kind event where you are the conference and the content is only as good as the attendees. If you have never attended you need to know the basics. BarCamp is an open-format conference where the attendees are the presenters. Our subject matter will be directly tied to what ideas [...]

Event info & RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/ONA-SPJ-Seattle/events/20734901/

Who’s hosting? Mark Briggs, Monica Guzman, Paul Balcerak, Tiffany Campbell How to find us: Jillian’s, 731 Westlake Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109-4322 Hello all, It’s been suggested by some in the digital world that in the era of social media, search engines could wither and die. Rand Fishkin, the CEO of Seattle’s [...]

Tickets and info here Join 600+ startup geeks, tech luminaries, sports fans, rock stars, local heroes and celebrity guests. Great times, from tunes to trash talk! Get in the game: ·        Challenge a local celeb to a hole-in-one putt-off. ·        Got hoops?  Take on a basketball great in a game of G-E-E-K. ·        Settle your (business) [...]

From NW Photojournalism Facebook Event

Next Monthly Meetup – 7 p.m., June 9th at Mulleady’s Irish Pub in Magnolia (3055 21st Ave W.) Mellow session this month – Bring photos/videos on a laptop to share with individuals and small groups

Find NW Photojournalism group on their Facebook Page

Info and RSVP at Eventbrite

The Seattle chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the Seattle Association of Black Journalists (SABJ) welcome you to the 25th anniversary celebration for the Northwest Journalists of Color scholarship.

Where: KING5, 333 Dexter Ave N, Seattle

When: Tuesday, 6pm doors open; 6:30pm program starts; 8pm end

Cost: FREE

We’ll be serving chicken satay, [...]

via John Hamer of the Washington News Council “It’s really important that we have accountability mechanisms in journalism. When it comes to our own accountability, most news organizations are doing a pretty poor job, to be blunt.” — Craig Silverman , in keynote speech to Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO) annual convention, Montreal Craig Silverman, a regular columnist for Columbia Journalism [...]