The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists announced the winners of its annual Page One journalism awards June 26 at Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis. Below is a full list of the honorees. Click here to read about the winners of the inaugural A-Mark Prize for Investigative Journalism in Minnesota. Special awards: 5A. Journalist of the Year: J. Patrick Coolican of…
Please join us the evening of Thursday, June 26 to celebrate the winners of our annual Page One Awards contest. We’ll honor and celebrate the state’s best journalism with an evening of fun at Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis. This year’s contest drew more than 500 entries representing every corner of the state. Each of our first place finishers will…
Twin Cities news media! The boards of the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists and ThreeSixty Journalism are proud to present recent University of St. Thomas grad Safiya Mohamed as this summer’s St. Paul Jaycees Foundation intern. Host her to cover St. Paul, and we’ll cover at least 1/2 the cost: As you may know, the Minnesota Society of Professional…
Attention college journalists: The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists (MNSPJ) is now accepting applications for its 2025 student scholarship. This year, MNSPJ will award one $2,000 scholarship to a student pursuing a career in broadcast, print, online or visual journalism. These are unrestricted funds and can be used as students see fit toward academic or professional pursuits. Last year’s scholarship winner was Kenzie…
MNSPJ Page One Awards Contest opens January 15th, features new cash prize for investigative reporting UPDATE! Deadline for entries has been extended to Tuesday, March 4th! The 2025 Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards contest opens on Wednesday, January 15th. The Page One Awards highlight the best work in journalism from around the state of Minnesota, honoring the…
UPDATE! Deadline for entries has been extended to Tuesday, March 4th! The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists is announcing the 2025 A-Mark Prize for Investigative Journalism in Minnesota. This new award seeks to recognize outstanding investigative journalism in our state with $15,000 in prize money for journalists and their newsrooms. The cash prizes, sponsored by the A-Mark Foundation, will be…
This year’s Silha Spring Ethics Forum will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, at Coffman Memorial Union Theater on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. The forum features Alan Chen, the Thompson G. Marsh Law Alumni Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, co-author of Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century…
Come to Lake Monster Brewing on Wednesday, Feb. 5, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. to mingle with fellow journalists and learn about the new A-Mark investigative journalism prize and the Page One Awards. One free drink ticket will be provided. Food will be available to order from OG Zaza through Lake Monster. Please RSVP by Monday, Feb. 3. Register here for the…
At least 50 people attended MNSPJ’s 2024 Intern Night on the evening of Oct. 22 in the USB Forum at Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul. Panelists included representatives and hiring managers from different media organizations. Talia McWright, who was recently hired as a full-time reporter with the Pioneer Press, gave her perspective as a recent intern at several different…
Star Tribune reporter Andy Mannix and photojournalist Renée Jones Schneider joined MNSPJ on Sept. 12 for a virtual Q&A to discuss how they reported and produced MNSPJ’s 2024 Story of the Year, “What Happened to Heather Mayer?“ Page One judges lauded the pair for their deep investigation of an often misunderstood community, writing: “The reporter treated survivors with dignity and…