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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.
Those in attendance will learn:
— How federal, state and local government documents can enhance reporting for ethnic and community audiences.
— About federal, city, county and state Sunshine laws relevant to the area.
— About the public’s rights to documents and how to ask for them.
— About options for recourse when journalists are denied.
— How community and ethnic media journalists can collaborate with mainstream partners to do investigative stories (and win awards).
In addition to this one-of-a-kind training program, participants will be given a copy of SPJ’s “Open Doors.” This book is your doorway to additional FOI resources that offer more detailed and specific information.
Announced Dates and Locations
Click on the dates below for details, including dates, locations and speaker information.
Los Angeles | March 29, 2008 | 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Missing Persons, Injustice, and Health Hazards
Registration Deadline: March 21
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Price
$8 Register
Lunch provided. First 25 participants to register will receive complimentary 6-month memberships to the Society of Professional Journalists.
Location
Southern California Radio
261 South Figueroa St., Suite 200
Los Angeles CA 90012
For more information
Julian Do E-mail
Adolfo Guzman E-mail
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The Southern California Freedom of Information training program for ethnic media will give reporters and editors more knowledge of public records laws to strengthen their reporting. The sessions will focus on obtaining important documents in the areas of immigration and environmental health, critical issues in the region. Local mainstream reporters will be on hand to provide first hand anecdotes and experience reporting these stories.
The event is co-sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, Southern California chapter and New America Media.
Trainer
— Joel Campbell, former FOI chairman, Society of Professional Journalists
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Sacramento | April 25, 2008 | 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Ethnic Media in a Political Year
Registration Deadline: April 11
Essential Details
Price
$8 Register
Lunch provided. First 25 participants to register will receive complimentary 6-month memberships to the Society of Professional Journalists. Travel expense subsidies available for carpoolers and those taking public transportation to Sacramento.
Location
Eleanor McClatchy Center, 2131 Q Street, Sacramento
21st and Q streets, across from The Bee.)
For more information
Ricardo Sandoval E-mail
Pueng Vongs E-mail
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A day of training on effective political reporting tools for journalists from ethnic media outlets.
The Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Professional Chapter, The Sacramento Bee and New America Media offer a day-long group of sessions designed to show journalists where to get the best information on political demographics, trends, issues and campaign spending. The sessions will also focus on obtaining pertinent documents in the areas of immigration and environmental health. The seminar is targeted at journalists from ethnic media outlets in Northern California; to demonstrate that regardless of an outlet’s size and budget, a number of informative stories and topics critical in this political year are well within reach.
Trainer
— Joel Campbell, former FOI chairman, National Society of Professional Journalists
— Andrew McIntosh, investigative reporter, Sacramento Bee
— Phillip Reese, computer-assisted reporting specialist, Sacramento Bee
— Steve Magagnini, senior writer, diversity, Sacramento Bee
— Susan Ferriss, senior writer, immigration, Sacramento Bee
— Ngoc Nguyen, Metcalf fellow, environment reporter, Sacramento Bee
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St. Paul, Minnesota | April 29, 2008 | 6-8:30 p.m.
Freedom of Information Seminar for Ethnic Media
Essential Details
Price
$8 Register
First 25 participants to register will receive complimentary 6-month memberships to the Society of Professional Journalists.
Location
Rondo Library, 461 N. Dale Street, St. Paul, Minn.
For more information
Art Hughes E-mail
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The November election hinges on issues like immigration, religious differences, government surveillance and what constitutes American values. More than ever, government information needs to be readily accessible to the greatest number of people. The Society of Professional Journalists aims to help members of the Twin Cities ethnic media to effectively get access to the information their viewers, listeners and readers need to know. The nation's political eyes turn to St. Paul this summer as the city hosts the 2008 Republican National Convention. Thousands of delegates, pundits, elected leaders, demonstrators and journalists will descend on the convention hall in August. Join FOI experts for a two-hour crash course about what information the public demands and clear, accurate and effective ways to get it. The session will also cover how to obtain important documents in the areas of immigration, homeland security and political reporting.
Trainer
— Joe Adams, editorial writer, The Florida Times-Union
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Springdale, Arkansas | May 15, 2008 | 5:30-8 p.m.
Freedom of Information and Ethics Training
Registration Deadline: May 1
Essential Details
Price
Free Register
First 25 participants to register will receive complimentary 6-month memberships to the Society of Professional Journalists.
Location
Jones Center for Families, Room 136, Springdale, Ark.
For more information
Michelle Parks E-mail
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An increasing number of Hispanics are moving into Arkansas, particularly the northwest corner of the state. The student populations of two of the four major school districts in this region are one-fourth to one-third Hispanic, and those city populations reflect that ratio. The amount of Spanish media outlets here are growing, with newspapers, radio and television. Freedom of Information and ethics training for ethnic media will give reporters and editors an introduction to public records laws intended to enhance their reporting. In addition, trainers will look specifically at how to obtain public records pertaining to the topics of immigration and government surveillance.
Trainer
— Joe Adams, editorial writer, The Florida Times-Union
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Moscow, Idaho | June 21, 2008 | 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Freedom of Information Seminar for Ethnic Media
Registration Deadline: May 31
Essential Details
Price
$10 Register
First 25 participants to register will receive complimentary 6-month memberships to the Society of Professional Journalists.
Location
University of Idaho
Whitewater Room, 1st Floor
Idaho Commons
875 S. Line St.
For more information
Becky Tallent E-mail
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Morning Program
The Freedom of Information training program for ethnic media will give reporters and editors more knowledge of public records laws to strengthen their reporting. In addition, the sessions will focus on covering tribal governments including accessing public records on reservations and Native lands.
Afternoon Program
Native journalists are not subject to FOIA laws when covering tribes; but then, neither are other journalists. Why? Native nations are sovereign nations and there are a number of issues about which journalists need to be aware in order to cover tribes. Join Mark Trahant, editorial page editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Gwen Spencer, public relations consultant for the Coeur d'Alene Nation, as they discuss the special issues of information gathering with Native Nations.
Trainer
— David Cuillier, FOI chairman, Society of Professional Journalists
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Questions?
Contact Amanda Mohl, at 317-927-8000 ext. 200 or via e-mail.
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About Joe Adams
Joe Adams is an editorial writer at The Florida Times-Union and author of The Florida Public Records Handbook published by the First Amendment Foundation in Tallahassee.
Eight universities in Florida have used the book as a textbook, the only one of its kind in the nation, and more than 1,000 journalists have attended his workshops on how to use public records for success. He is the recipient of the national 2007 Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award sponsored by the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation and has earned two national Sunshine Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. In December 2000, Presstime magazine profiled him as one of the top 20 under 40 newspaper industry professionals to watch in the future.
As an editorial writer, Adams has received awards from the Florida Press Club, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists. His year of public records research of the Jacksonville City Council uncovered widespread open meetings abuses. The resulting work by Adams and the newsroom inspired a grand jury probe and prompted the council in 2007 to create the state's first known local ordinance to ensure better compliance with Florida's Sunshine Law. He is originator of the www.iDigAnswers.com Web site about Florida FOI news and public records use.
Adams is founder and past coordinator of Times-Union University, the Jacksonville newspaper's newsroom training program, and is also former director of the National Newspaper Diversity Job Bank on the Internet. He also taught information gathering for two years as an adjunct professor at the University of North Florida.
About David Cuillier
David Cuillier is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, where he teaches public affairs reporting, computer-assisted reporting, and access to information. He has a master’s degree and doctorate in communication from Washington State University and was a public affairs reporter and city editor for 12 years at daily newspapers in the Pacific Northwest.
He helped coordinate an access audit for Washington state in 2001, assists coalitions for open government and has conducted access training for newspapers and regional SPJ conferences. His research focuses on the psychology of access — factors that affect public attitudes toward access to government records and strategies that journalists and citizens can use to increase their success at accessing public records.
About Joel Campbell
Joel Campbell is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications at Brigham Young University. He was a reporter and editor at the (Salt Lake City) Deseret News for 15 years covering everything from cops to Salt Lake City Hall to Salt Lake's bid for the Winter Olympics. He holds a master's degree from Ohio State University and bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. He teaches beginning newswriting and advanced reporting courses.
He is active in many First Amendment and Freedom of Information causes and is past president of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and co-chair of SPJ's Freedom of Information Committee. He is legislative monitor for the Utah Press Association and has served as vice president of the Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has also served on the Utah Information Technology Commission and Utah Courts Committee on Court Records Access and Privacy. He is also a consultant to the Citizen Access Project at the University of Florida and served on a SPJ task force that reviewed student press freedom at Southern Utah University.
He is also interested in ethics and was asked to conduct an independent review the Salt Lake Tribune-National Enquirer incident where two reporters sold information to the tabloid.
He is the recipient of the Quintus B. Wilson Ethics Award, Roy B. Gibson Freedom of Information Award, and Clifford P. Cheney Service to Journalism Award from the Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He also received SPJ's national outstanding chapter member award.
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Ernest Wiggins is a tenured associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina. He's the adviser to the campus chapter of SPJ, which he revitalized out of dormancy in 2004. For his efforts, Wiggins received the David Eshelman Oustanding Campus Adviser award from SPJ in 2005.
A former reporter and editor for The State (Columbia, S.C.) and the Columbia (S.C.) Record, Wiggins joined the faculty in 1993, returning to the school from which he'd earned both his bachelor's and master's degree. Wiggins has done additional postgraduate study in social strutures and social networks.
His areas of teaching and research specialization are newsgathering and reporting trends, media ethics, media literacy, newsroom operations, and mass media and social justice.
He's presented research at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications national conferences and regional colloquia. His research has been published in "Framing Public Life: Perspective on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World."
He has been a guest columnist for The State and his work has been reprinted in Stein and Paterno's "The Newswriter's Handbook" and Kreml, et al., "College Writing: Reading, Analyzing, and Writing."
He's attended seminars in writing and new media and convergence at the Poynter Institute and American Press Institute and was selected to be one of two faculty members to attend the Medicine in the Media workshop at the National Institutes of Health in 2005.
Wiggins has been recognized for his teaching and is sought after to mentor students and direct student research.
In addition to SPJ, Wiggins is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Associaton of University Professors.
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