VIDEO: Byron Pitts address at Minnesota SPJ’s 2008 Page One awards banquet
2008 Page One Awards Banquet
The 2008 Page One Awards Banquet will be held Thursday, June 12, and will honor the best in Minnesota journalism from 2007. The Minnesota Pro Chapter will also present the 2008 Peter S. Popovich Award as well as its 2008 student scholarship awards. The event will feature guest speaker Byron Pitts, a CBS News National Correspondent who recently was embedded with troops covering the Iraq war and served as CBS’ primary correspondent at Ground Zero following 9/11.
You are cordially invited to join us in celebrating our award winners.
When: Thursday, June 12, 2008
Reception begins at 6:00 p.m.
Dinner served at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Town & Country Club
300 Mississippi River Blvd. N.
St. Paul, MN 55104
Ethics Week Forum | April 24, 2008
Journalism from the Frontlines: Remaining Independent When Covering Politics and War
When: Thursday, April 24 | 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Where: Nolte Center, Room 140 | University of Minnesota East Bank Campus, Twin Cities
What: The Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law will once again partner with the Minnesota Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists to produce a program for National Ethics in Journalism Week. The theme of this year’s Ethics Week is “Act Independently.”
The program will feature Edward Wasserman, Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics, Washington & Lee University.
Free and open to the public;
No reservations required.
Creating a document-driven newsroom: Ethnic Media
Freedom of Information seminar for ethnic-media
journalists to visit St. Paul
Rondo Library, St. Paul | April 29, 2008 | 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Registration Deadline: April 15
The Society of Professional Journalists, one of the nation’s premier authorities in public access and First amendment issues, will conduct training programs for ethnic-media journalists around the country in the coming months. The program will explore the ins and outs of Freedom of Information laws — and how to use them in daily reporting. The session will include a primer on the FOI laws related specifically to each location, as well as guidelines for successful use of the federal FOI law. Participants will see how these laws can be used to create quality journalism, and get some great ideas for producing document-driven stories of their own.
VIDEO: New Media, New Standards? Ethics in Online Journalism
Watch video of the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists and Minnesota Public Radio forum on online journalism ethics Feb. 25, 2008. Host Bob Collins and lead panelist Dan Gillmor, along with guest panelists, discussed what is possible and what is at stake. Guests included:
Chuck Olsen, MNstories.com/theUpTake.org
Michael Caputo, MPR - Public Insight Journalism
Jane Kirtley, Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics & Law (University of MN)
Steve Perry, Minnesota Monitor
Dave Pyle, AP
Terry Sauer, Star Tribune
Wendy Wyatt, University of St. Thomas
Scott Libin, WCCO-TV
Freedom of Information Day | March 14, 2008
What: Freedom of Information Day Celebration
Presentation of the John R. Finnegan Freedom of Information Award
Silha Center’s Jane Kirtley Envisions “The Light at the End of the Tunnel”
When: Friday, March 14, 2008 | 12:00 p.m.
Where: Minneapolis Central Library
The people’s right to know assumes a vast network of agencies and individuals committed to affirmation of that right. Recipients of the 2008 John R. Finnegan Freedom of Information Award reflect the many facets of information access. The Minnesota Coalition on Government Information (MnCOGI) will present this year’s awards as a highlight of Freedom of Information and the kickoff of Sunshine Week 2008.
By any measure, the collapse of the 35W Bridge is the story of 2007 - covered by every news medium from every journalistic angle. Recipients of the FOI Award include several investigative journalists including Associated Press staffers Martiga Lohn and Brian Bakst and Star Tribune reporters Dan Browning, Kevin Diaz, Patrick Doyle, Mike Kaszuba and Paul McEnroe. All of these journalists have enhanced public understanding of the tragedy through their explicit use of the Freedom of Information Act and the Minnesota Data Practices Act to gain access to public information.
The Coalition will also confer two Honorable Mention Awards. An Honorable Mention Award will be given to Susan Albright, former Editorial Page Editor at the Star Tribune. Albright, now with MinnPost, is recognized for her articulate appreciation of the dependence of a free press on access to government information and for her consistent editorial support of the principles of open government.