SPJ Region 12 spring conference goes off without a hitch at Lipscomb

Journalists from Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana converged on the Lipscomb University campus in Nashville Saturday for the 2011 Society of Professional Journalists' Region 12 spring conference.

Among the highlights:

• Our keynote speaker, SPJ national president and Nashvillian by upbringing Hagit Limor, gave a behind-the-scenes look at her reporting from Japan during the recent earthquake and tsunami and talked about the recent and troubling trend of states gutting their open government laws;
• Prof. Sybril Bennett of Belmont University got rave reviews for her morning session on multimedia in the changing journalism landscape
• The Louisiana schools took home bucketloads of honors in the Mark of Excellence awards for student journalism. Among our local winners were Lipscomb, TSU and Vol State (see separate post for more details and a complete list of winners). 
• And Prof. Donald Page of TSU won the door prize drawing, taking home free registration to the SPJ/RTDNA convention in September in New Orleans. 

Thanks to everyone who attended and volunteered!

Lipscomb, TSU, Vol State honored at Mark of Excellence Awards

Student journalists from Lipscomb University, Tennessee State University and Volunteer State Community College took home honors today in the Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence competition for Region 12.

Lipscomb took first place awards for breaking television reporting, online news reporting and best independent online student publication, along with a second-place finish in breaking news photography.

TSU won first place for best all-around radio newscast for WTST AM-1600's Tiger News Network reports.

Vol State took home first place for best student magazine in the two-year college category.

The awards were given out today during the regional conference on the Lipscomb campus.

Congrats to our local winners! For details on all the winners, check out the complete list below.

2011 Society of Professional Journalists Region 12 Mark of Excellence Awards results

John Seigenthaler remembers the Freedom Riders

John Seigenthaler speaks on the Freedom Riders in this video from the Newseum.

"The Journalistic Enterprise": SPJ regional conference March 25-26 in Nashville

“The Journalistic Enterprise”

WHEN: March 25-26, 2011
Opening night reception March 25
Conference March 26

WHERE: Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tenn.
HOW TO GET THERE: Details at this link

REGISTRATION
Early bird (by March 18)
$90 for SPJ members
$100 for nonmembers
$55 for students

After March 18
$95 for SPJ members
$110 for nonmembers
$60 for students

To register: Send checks by mail to SPJ Middle Tennessee Pro, P.O. Box 22248, Nashville, TN 37202.

Accomodations: There are several reasonably priced hotels near the campus.

Plus, the Hampton Inn Vanderbilt, 1919 West End, has set aside a small number
of rooms for SPJ at $109 a night, double or king beds. This rate is available until
March 2. The Hampton can be contacted at 615-329-1144 or 888-880-5394.
The reservation code is SPJ.

SPJ live Twitter chat tonight; topic: copy editing and social media

SPJ's live Twitter chat is at 7 p.m. tonight Nashville time. More on the #SPJchat site: 

Jan. 13 Topic: Copy Editing and Social Media with our Panel of Experts:

• Andy Bechtel, University of North Carolina and author of The Editor’s Desk blog
• Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl book and podcasts
• Sue Bullard, University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Mark Allen, freelance writer and copy editor, ACES/Copydesk.org
• and a SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY GRAMMAR HULK!

Professional development next topic of SPJ's podcast/live Internet radio show

Listen in to the next episode of "Your SPJ Membership," SPJ's podcast and live Internet radio show, coming up tomorrow to find out more about SPJ's professional development offerings.

The special guest on the show will be Deb Wenger, the chairwoman of SPJ's national committee on professional development.

The show airs at noon tomorrow (Thursday, Jan. 13) on BlogTalkRadio.com. If you can't listen in to the live show, you can always go over and listen to the archived show -- and you can also download the audio through iTunes and listen on your PC or on your iPod.

Listen to internet radio with SPJ on Blog Talk Radio

Lest we forget ...

A little pep talk for us all on this Friday morning. The whole thing only takes about 30 seconds.

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