SPJ May 21, 2017
Minutes
10:10: Summary of last meeting minutes
- Mark led
- March 5 – again of $261.48
- Silver Key Awards in process
- Student workshop is up in the air
- Suggested future programing
- Lynn Walsh on Meet the Press
- Member recruitment ideas discussed
- Thank you dinner in June – maybe June 21 – Wednesday
10:15:
Terri treasury notes
- Tim got his check for reimbursement for San Diego
- We are up in our investment
- Cash available: $6,102.90
- Regional fund closed because Wells Fargo was going to start charging for the account
- Do we have plans for our investment money? Something to be discussed at future point when everyone is here
- Should we push National to come back here and do events?
- We’ll revisit
10:28
Mark’s minute
- Mark has a new job as communications manager at the AZ chamber of commerce
10:30:
Old Business
Regional Conference Recap
- Good experience for all overall
- Journalism revivalism meeting! J
Scholarship Update
- We have 3
- Should we raise the award to $1000 in the future? Or should we give our winner the $1000 now?
- We voted to give him $1000 instead of $500. Motion carried 5-1, 5 yays, 1 nay
FOI Awards Silver Keys – need our picks by July
- Amy Silverman
- Phil Alvidrez? Bobbie Jo Buel, AZ Daily Star
- We need two more names – Maybe Steve Goldstein at KJZZ News?
- Should we email the old winners who they think we should nominate?
First Amendment Coalition
- Mark is ready to step down from the SPJ Coalition Board
- We need to find someone to take his place – Mark asked Jessica Bane at AZ Rep. Possibly Carrie Jung from KJZZ.
- The number of calls for help have been declining over the years
New Business 10:50
- Program Ideas to get member recruitment
- Deb is attending a conference on geriatrics and aging – opportunity for journalists to learn how to cover older Americans’ issues – Beginning of Nov.
- Bring AARP or someone to sponsor?
- Do this in October ?
- Learn how to file a FOI Request – Fall
- Programs that are beat focused – get these beat journalists to talk about their beat, and then let them get real and discuss the realities of being said journalist
- Transborder Issues – either fall or January?
- Work with the Hispanic media, and maybe KJZZ’s Fronteras Desk or Mexico City Bureau? àContact Al Macias there
- Data journalism – how to read government data
- Fake News – July — Library Downtown — what is it? How to fight it. How do we counter the perception that main stream is a liberal resource? How do you avoid fake news as a consumer
- Opioid crisis – Fall — media doesn’t understand what’s going on with it all – so how can we better understand the crisis and do better reporting on it.
- Journey from News Room to Corporate Communication – “Life After Journalism”
- Deb is attending a conference on geriatrics and aging – opportunity for journalists to learn how to cover older Americans’ issues – Beginning of Nov.
- Publicity Summit – September 16 – no increase in price
11:50
Annual Reporter passed to Tim, then Mark, then Amanda
Date for June Elections — June 21, 5:30-7:30, SunUp on 3rd St. & Camelback
11:55 Meeting adjourned
Kaely Monahan, Chapter Secretary