The 2017 Page One Banquet will celebrate the best in Minnesota journalism. Hannah Allam, a veteran journalist who covers U.S. Muslim life for BuzzFeed News, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Page One Banquet. Allam previously reported for McClatchy, spending a decade as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring…
The Minnesota Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is seeking director candidates for the 2017-18 board year. This year’s election will begin on May 29, with candidate statements due to MNSPJ by May 26. Results of this year’s election will be announced at the MNSPJ annual meeting, 6:30 p.m. June 28 at The Cardinal in South Minneapolis. …
As a plan to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage has worked its way through the Legislature — with a Senate vote planned this week — the Southwest Journal in Minneapolis has covered the issue from several perspectives. Two of the Journal’s stories make up the April installment of the Minnesota Sampler — this one, which looks at…
Attention journalists: The creators of the Serial podcast — Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder — are coming to the Twin Cities. The pair will speak May 10 as part of Beth El Synagogue’s Inspiring Minds series. Minnesota SPJ is a promotional partner for the event. Launched in 2014, Serial became the fastest podcast to reach five million downloads in iTunes…
Who defines which news is “fake”? How do ethical principles help the media detect and combat fake news? Can democracy survive fake news? These questions and others will be addressed at the 2017 Silha Center Spring Forum on April 24 at the University of Minnesota. Making News or Faking News? Ethical Journalism in a Post-Truth Era will feature Joshua Gillin,…
Hannah Allam, a veteran journalist who covers U.S. Muslim life for BuzzFeed News, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Page One Banquet, set for June 15 at the Town & Country Club in St. Paul. Allam previously reported for McClatchy, spending a decade as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab…
Retired Star Tribune photographer Jim Gehrz is the latest featured in our ongoing series called Tell us Your Story, a salute to former journalists who have moved on to new adventures. Like most of the reporters and photojournalists I’ve had the privilege to work with, journalism has always felt less like a job and more like a calling. Initially I was…
The Minnesota pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists salutes former journalists who have moved on to new adventures. In this ongoing series, we invite newsies to reflect on their time in the news business. Our latest entry is from Sara Aeikens, who wrote for the Albert Lea Tribune and now contributes occasional columns to the newspaper. The trail of my…
The following is the Minnesota SPJ pro chapter’s statement on H.F. 1185, a bill related to the definition and retention of public correspondence: The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly supports H.F. 1185, a bill introduced at the Legislature that calls for a three-year period of retention of correspondence with regard to government records and more clearly defines the meaning of…
Kristine Goodrich of the Mankato Free Press recently wrote about the recovery of a Truman boy who was told he would be paralyzed after being shot with an archery arrow. The second-grader, Curtis Bressler, is now jumping and climbing stairs, the paper reported. Free Press photographer Pat Christman contributed photos for the story — the February installment of the Minnesota Sampler.…