When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 25

Where: Griggs Midway Building, 540
Fairview Avenue N., St. Paul
(corner of University Ave. and Fairview Ave.)

Cost: Free and open to the public

What: An SPJ workshop on covering the GLBT Community: the mishaps, triumphs, and mistakes of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender coverage, and how to take gay journalism in Minnesota to the next level.  A discussion with: straight reporters who cover GLBT issues, gay journalists, and GLBT community leaders.

Download a copy of the event flyer here.

This event is sponsored by the Minnesota Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. It is free and open to the public.

June 25, 2009
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
East Lake Library

Moderated by Allan Malkis, board member of the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, this event asks whether individual are “looking to hold a government agency accountable for the action it takes.” The discussion will revolve around how to conduct an inventory of a state or local agency’s actions.

The event is free and open to the public.

We are pleased to offer our monthly newsletter in an online format. If you have not signed up to receive this monthly update, please sign up to join our mailing list on our homepage.

In this issue:  Be Our Guest: Forum on Healthcare & The News, June 11; check out video from Tom Brokaw’s address to the Society of Minnesota Professional Journalists; or tune in to the most recent Town Hall Forum: Fever Pitch — Does Health News Reporting Leave Consumers Out in the Cold.

You can view Newsworthy Online by clicking here.

Volume 3: Issue 2

We are pleased to offer our monthly newsletter in an online format. If you have not signed up to receive this monthly update, please sign up to join our mailing list on our homepage.

In this issue:  You’re invited to an April 30th Town Hall meeting; consider attending the 2009 Premack Awards program, honoring the best public affairs journalism in Minnesota; and watch video or view photos from our February public forum about news coverage of the Somali community.

You can view Newsworthy Online by clicking here.

Join the Twin Cities Media Alliance next for the next Brown Bag Lunch with A Journalist, Wednesday, March 25 at noon, at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St., Minneapolis: Sharon Schmickle, who has reported from Iraq and Afghanistan, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995, left the Star Tribune in 2007 to join MinnPost, where she writes about science and foreign affairs.

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St. Cloud State University will host professor David Domke on April 3 for the 37th annual First Amendment Friday at the Atwood Little Theatre. Domke, an author of two books about religion in American politics, will deliver the keynote address at 9 a.m. After Domke’s talk, a panel of reporters will discuss news and religious issues they have covered and some religious leaders will react to them.

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Join the Silha Center Wednesday, March 25 at the Murphy Hall Conference Center to take part in a program on digital privacy and law enforcement surveillance: “Surveillance, Anonymity, and Privacy: Law Enforcement and your Computer.”
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Monday, April 20, 2009 
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Program
A. I. Johnson Room, McNamara Alumni Center — University of Minnesota, East Bank

Free and open to the public More »

Minnesota Public Radio will host author and commentator, Frank Deford, March 30 at 7 p.m. on the campus of Macalester College. Deford has twice been voted Magazine Writer of The Year by the Washington Journalism Review.

This event is part of the Broadcast Journalist Series, an opportunity for the Twin Cities community to connect with top working journalists and correspondents about the people and events that have shaped their careers.

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE!

Thursday, April 30, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Murphy Hall (the journalism building), 206 Church Street, SE, room 130 (the lecture hall).

You will find parking most convenient in the Church Street Garage or the Washington Avenue Ramp.

The Minnesota News Council is partnering with SPJ and the Silha Center for the Study of Ethics & Law to bring you a Town Hall meeting on Thursday, April 30.

Part of the SPJ Town Hall Meeting Series celebrating Ethics Week, the event will feature the work of Gary Schwitzer, Associate Professor at the University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Publisher of HealthNewsReview.org and a distinguished panel of working journalists. More »