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The US Census is pushing to get American Arabs and Muslims to participate and help secure a "complete" count beginning in April. But many Arabs are concerned because the Census wants our help but gives Arabs nothing directly in return, such as recognition....

Now is the time to contact your U.S. senator to support the federal shield law. On Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider passing S. 448, the Free Flow of Infomation Act. The bill isn't perfect, but it would provide projection to people...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the Classrooms and Newsrooms blog by following this link. RSS subscribers,...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the al-Sahafiyeen blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the SPJ Varsity blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the Generation J blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of this blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update your readers...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the Journalism and the World blog by following this link. RSS subscribers,...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the Independent Journalist blog by following this link. RSS subscribers,...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the Diversity blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update your...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the Garden Center blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the FOI FYI blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update your...

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No registration of any kind is necessary. You can find the new home of the Code Words blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update your...

Programming Note: We've Moved! The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No new registration is necessary. You can find the new home of the SPJ Works blog by following this link....

The SPJ Blogs Network has moved to the Wordpress platform, making it easier than ever to join the convesation. No new registration is necessary. You can find the new home of the Freedom of the Prez blog by following this link. RSS subscribers, update...

As journalists, we need work on our relationships with our readers. We're now realizing that the one-size-fits-all traditional method of delivering news no longer works for our audience -- or for us -- as competition increases and attention spans decrease....

ATTENTION: This post is for all the journalists who find themselves manning a desk more than a beat. Here is a cool digital tool for your managerial toolbox.Are you dreading having to prepare yet another PowerPoint presentation?Ready to take your work...

Hi guys, for those of us who work from home these Webcasts are a very helpful way to keep in touch with the changing journalism industry. Looks like Webcasts also are available at www.mediabistrom.com, for a fee for non-AvantGuild members. Amy Green,...

It didn’t take me all of two and a half hours sitting at Walter Cronkite’s memorial service Wednesday to learn that my career is somewhat muted  by the fact I never met the journalistic icon. I, like so many of my generation, were drawn to journalism...

I'm sure at one point or another you have participated or hosted a web conference call at work. Web conferences are a great way to deliver your PowerPoint presentation to several colleagues spread throughout the nation and show them websites that express...

Digital multi-media features are increasingly commonplace in today's news outlets as print and electronic media have begun irreversibly cross-dipping into technologies previously exclusive to each other. What we once only read on paper we see and hear...

L. Gordon Crovitz recently observed people often ignore the second part of author Stewart Brand’s famous quote “Information wants to be free.” In a February column, Crovitz, a media analyst and an executive with The Wall Street Journal, reminded readers...

Hi guys, another Web cast from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Nonmembers can listen in for a fee. Check it out! Amy Green, freelance committee chairwoman. Whether you're launching your first website or want to take an existing one to...

The SPJ International Committee condemns the violence that took the life of journalist and documentary filmmaker Christian Poveda in El Salvador Sept. 2. He was covering gang violence in El Salvador. He expressed concerns about the increasing incidence...

 As those of you who attended the convention last week will recall, I talked about a plan to turn our membership numbers around. While adding 1,000 people to our roll seems daunting in these most difficult of times, it will not be if many of...